RT.

Warmington, Aug. 9. 1851.

_The Od Force._--As considerable interest appertains to the earlier

manifestations of what is now termed Mesmerism, the following Note may

not be altogether unworthy of a place.

The experiment, upon which a subjective proof of the agency of the power

of Od is founded, as described by Dr. Herbert Mayo in the supplementary

chapter to the last edition of _Letters on the Truths contained in

Popular Superstitions_, and alluded to by R. D. H. (Vol. iii., p. 517.),

is another instance of there being "nothing new under the sun." In the

_Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords_, first published at Paris in 1582,

in the chapter "Des faux Sorciers et de leur Impostures" occurs the

following passage, which I copy _verbatim et literatim_:--

"Autres ont une ruse, qu'ils semblent d'attacher un anneau d'or ou

d'argent à un petit filet, qu'on suspend dans un verre à demy

plain d'eaue, et puis l'ayant trempé pair trois fois, disent

bellement ce verset du Psalme, autant de fois, 'Ecce enim

veritatem dilexisti, incerta et occulta sapientiæ tuæ manifestasti

mihi.' L'anneau bat contre le verre, et sonne autant d'heures

qu'il en peut estre."

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