mesmerizer

In a sense this guidance had been present in 1813 in the mesmerizer (who is obliquely mentioned) and also in the "life-spirit" (W2 157).

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

But guidance suggests a potentially analytic rather than hypnotic relation, since the mesmerizer would simply have been a medium, whereas guidance cognitively organizes the flows with which Mesmerism deals electrochemically.

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

This first epistle, and several afterward, show the mesmerizer in the throes of self-hypnosis.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

This first epistle, and several afterward, show the mesmerizer in the throes of self-hypnosis.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came — and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

The mesmerizer sits at his head behind him, leaning over, making almost face-to-face contact, his right hand reaching down to the pit of the man's stomach, his left hand making passes close to the face, over and over again, for hours, sometimes for six hours a day.

Mind Over Matter Hacking, Ian 1999

Your man may be a fancy mesmerizer, or mesmerize you, now that it is flying about like an epidemic, without knowing it.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

The mesmerizer and his young friend knelt down also on the rug on either side of the tribades, and facing each other, embraced with the most apparent ardour across the bodies of the writhing and excitable girls.

The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies Anonymous

A gentleman, about thirty years of age, when the mesmerizer held his outstretched hands pointed to his head, experienced no disposition to sleep; but in two or three minutes, he began to shake his head and twist his features about; at last, his head was jerked from side to side, and forwards and backwards, with a violence that looked alarming.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

Nor, supposing it true that a mesmerized patient can respond to the will or passes of a mesmerizer a hundred miles distant, is the response less occasioned by a material being; it may be through a material fluid -- call it

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890