hypnotism

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The plot also includes a disturbing case of mass hypnotism and mind control.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

I’ve gone there every couple of months or so for nearly four years, since my friend Betsy Ann Cowley bought the town from some people who had run a hypnotism school there since the mid-1990s.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2018

"He had the old power idea of hypnotism," Freeman told investigators, according to "Killing the Dream," an account of King's assassination by Gerald Posner.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2018

And don't get me started on the implausibility of the hypnotism.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2017

Perhaps he was healing her with his slime—for all the fishes are said to go to the Tench for medicine—or perhaps it was by touch or massage or hypnotism.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White