Hypnosis

“Of all animals, the serpent is the most sensitive to hypnotic or magnetic power. If you have it (magnetic power comes from the most material vital), you can easily gain a mastery over snakes; all the people who like snakes have it and use it to make snakes obey them.... That's how I got out of my encounter with the cobra at Tlemcen — do you know the story? Théon had told me about this power and I was aware of it in myself, so I was able to make the cobra obey and he left.”

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