he Swiss Anabaptists. But to return to the possessions
recorded by Calmeil.

The biological relations alleged by the mesmerists appear in still
stronger development in the case of the nuns of Auxonne in 1662. The
Bishop of Chalons reports, speaking of the possessed, "that all the
aforesaid young women, being in number eighteen, as well seculars as
regulars, and without a single exception, appeared to him to have obtained
the gift of tongues, inasmuch as they accurately replied to the matters in
Latin, which were addressed to them by their exorcists, and which were not
borrowed from the ritual, still less arranged by any preconcert; they
frequently explained themselves in Latin--sometimes in entire periods,
sometimes in broken sentences;" "that all or almost all of them were
proved to have introvision (_cognizance de l'interieur_) and knowledge of
whatever thought might be secretly addressed to them, as appeared
particularly in the case of the internal commands which were often
addressed to them by the exorcists, and which in general they obeyed
implicitly, although without any external signification of the command,
either verbal or by way of sign; as the said Lord Bishop experienced in
many instances, among others, in that of Denise Parisot, whom the exorcist
having commanded, in the depths of his own mind, to come to him for the
purpose of being exorcised, she came incontinently, though dwelling in a
remote part of the town; telling the Lord Bishop that she had received his
commands and was come accordingly; and this she did on several occasions;
likewise in the person of Sister Jamin, a novice, who, on recovering from
her fit, told him the internal commandment which he had given to her demon
during the exorcism; also in the case of the Sister Borthon, to whom
having issued a mental commandment in one of her paroxysms to come and
prostrate herself before the Holy Sacrament, with her face to the ground
and her arms stretched forward, she executed his command at the very
instant that he willed it, with a promptitude and precipitation altogether
wonderful."

Sister Denise Parisot, one of those who exhibited these singularities,
also displayed a farther and very remarkable manifestation of what would
now be called biological influence. "Being commanded by his Lordship to
make the pulse of her right arm entirely cease beating while that of the
left continued, and then to transfer the pulsation so as to beat in the
right ar