the castle's attic (mesmerising)

 "....Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession -an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to prove, at the present day, that man, by mere exercise of will, can so impress his fellow, as to cast him into an abnormal condition, in which phenomena resemble very closely those of death, or at least resemble them more nearly than they do the phenomena of any other condition within our cognizance..."

Good old Edgar P. i's spooking. A short visual mesmerism sampling by Sam R. with Will.B.....On the count of four: Enter the space