{"id":1543,"date":"2015-02-11T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T02:12:33","slug":"the-witch-hypnotizer-by-zena-a-maher-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/1543\/the-witch-hypnotizer-by-zena-a-maher-1892\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Witch Hypnotizer\u201d by Zena A. Maher (1892)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Such a promis\u00ading title.<\/p>\n

Such a pro\u00adfound disappointment.<\/p>\n

To put this blunt\u00adly, this is a Bib\u00adli\u00adcal tract, not a sto\u00adry. Each chap\u00adter is whol\u00adly or in part a moral\u00adi\u00adty play in minia\u00adture, com\u00adplete with such name\u00adless stock char\u00adac\u00adters such as the man who drinks too much, the gam\u00adbler, the unfaith\u00adful hus\u00adband, the false wit\u00adness, the beset-upon Chi\u00adna\u00adman (yes, this work is reflec\u00adtive of the peri\u00adod and there\u00adfore there are def\u00adi\u00adnite strains of racism and misog\u00ady\u00adny with\u00adin) and the \u201cfall\u00aden woman\u201d. There is lit\u00adtle dia\u00adlog and very few attempts at char\u00adac\u00adter descrip\u00adtion or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adi\u00adza\u00adtion. Each sto\u00adry involves the Witch Hyp\u00adno\u00adtiz\u00ader as she wan\u00adders through the town, encoun\u00adter\u00ading indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals with prob\u00adlems or moral flaws. Then comes sev\u00ader\u00adal Bible vers\u00ades, sin\u00adgle vers\u00ades care\u00adful\u00adly select\u00aded and dis\u00adjoint\u00adly assem\u00adbled, then comes the demon\u00adstra\u00adtion of the ref\u00ador\u00adma\u00adtion of the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar indi\u00advid\u00adual and the res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion of the exist\u00ading prob\u00adlem or sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion. End of lesson.<\/p>\n

The unnamed pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist, the Witch Hyp\u00adno\u00adtiz\u00ader, is equal\u00adly obscure and occlud\u00aded: no phys\u00adi\u00adcal descrip\u00adtion of her is ever giv\u00aden, but there is a descrip\u00adtion of her power:<\/p>\n

It was noth\u00ading tan\u00adgi\u00adble, but an inde\u00adscrib\u00adable some\u00adthing which gave her influ\u00adence over oth\u00ader minds, to bend them to her will.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She is also com\u00adplete\u00adly cer\u00adtain of her mis\u00adsion of the spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal and social ref\u00ador\u00adma\u00adtion of oth\u00aders accord\u00ading to the mores of the day, includ\u00ading the prop\u00ader place of women (in the home and with\u00adout the vote). By her cer\u00adtain\u00adty, does not feel the need to seek informed con\u00adsent. Fur\u00adther\u00admore, there is nev\u00ader any kind of demon\u00adstra\u00adtion that the Witch Hyp\u00adno\u00adtiz\u00ader actu\u00adal\u00adly per\u00adforms any kind of act to induce the ref\u00ador\u00adma\u00adtion. (That, appar\u00adent\u00adly, is left up to the imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion of the reader.)<\/p>\n

\n

This work was found at Project Guten\u00adberg<\/a>, in a vari\u00adety of elec\u00adtron\u00adic forms, here<\/a>. There is very lit\u00adtle to rec\u00adom\u00admend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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