Tradition 26 of 33
Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis
Animal magnetism, mesmerism, suggestion, and historical borders between trance science and occult practice.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,831
- Earliest
- 1242
- to 2026
- Read free
- 57%
- 1,044 with public full text
- With covers
- 63%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,758
- Metadata match47
- Query match24
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- hypnotism577
- animal magnetism516
- Mesmerism395
- Magnétisme animal340
- Hypnosis335
- Mesmerismus116
- Hypnose110
- Therapeutic use100
- History98
- Parapsychology71
- Suggestive Therapeutics67
- Psychology66
- Magnetic healing65
- Sleepwalking63
- Electronic books54
- Social Sciences54
- Magnétisme51
- Spiritualism51
- Early works to 180048
- Art43
- Philosophy43
- Somnambulism42
- Arts and Humanities40
- Fiction39
Top languages
- French754 · 41%
- English639 · 35%
- German281 · 15%
- Italian40 · 2%
- NOT23 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Franz Anton Mesmer47 in this tradition48 books
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh36 in this tradition71 books
- University of Glasgow. Library18 in this tradition71 books
- Edgar Allan Poe18 in this tradition24 books
- Jules Du Potet de Sennevoy13 in this tradition15 books
- Nicolas Bergasse13 books
- James Braid12 books
- Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach12 books
- France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal10 books
- James Esdaile10 books
- Benjamin Franklin9 in this tradition15 books
- Joseph Philippe François Deleuze9 in this tradition10 books
1,831 books
The Convoluted Universe, Book Four
Dolores Cannon
2011
The Oxford handbook of hypnosis
Amanda J. Barnier
2008
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, Montague Rhodes James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L.P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J.N. Allan, Vilas Sarang
1984
The Search for the Girl with the Blue Eyes
Jess Stearn
1968
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth
Dolores Cannon
2011
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. I
Edgar Allan Poe, John H. Ingram
1874
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. II (Assignation / Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / Masque of the Red Death / Mesmeric Revelation / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / Von Kempelen and His Discovery)
Edgar Allan Poe
1884
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe including the choicest of his critical essays [42 stories, 37 poems, 10 essays]
Edgar Allan Poe
1872
The answer within
Stephen R. Lankton
1983
The complete book of self-hypnosis
John M. Yates
1984
- Read free
The confessions of a magnetiser
1845
The deep trance training manual
Igor Ledochowski
2003
The highly hypnotizable person
Michael Heap, David A. Oakley
2004
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The spirit rappings, mesmerism, clairvoyance, and psychometry, or, The life and times of old Billy M'Connell, the witch doctor, the great prototype of the modern professors of the imaginative sciences
1851
The wizard from Vienna
Vincent Buranelli
1975
Transforming Therapy a New Approach to Hypnotherapy/ With Csst
Gil Boyne
1989
Cuentos de terror
Edgar Allan Poe, Théophile Gautier, Ambrose Bierce, W. W. Jacobs, H. G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Horacio Quiroga, H.P. Lovecraft
1997Spanish
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Der thierische Magnetismus
1845German
- Read free
Découverte du véritable secret du magnétisme animal
1784French
Franz Anton Mesmer
Bruno Belhoste
2024French
Hipnosis
Guillermo Cobos Z
1993Spanish
Le guérisseur des Lumières
Frédéric Gros
2019French
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Magnetismus und Mesmerismus oder Physische und geistige Kräfte der Natur
1862German
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Nouvelle découverte sur le magnétisme animal, ou Lettre adressée à un ami de province
1784French