That the phenomena of animal magnetism were not entirely unknown to the ancients, appears by what Clearchus relates of an experiment tried in the presence of Aristotle. He speaks of a man who, by means of "a soul-attracting wand," let the soul out of a sleeping lad, and left the body insensible. When the soul was again led into the body, it related all that had happened to it.
"The laws of the country made it impossible to accompany her beloved husband." p. 206.
No woman was allowed to enter Olympia, during the celebration of the games.
"Deemed he had fallen by the dart of Phœbus Apollo." p. 208.
Those who died very suddenly were supposed to have been struck with the arrows of Phœbus, or his sister.
"Its best pleasures are like the gardens of Adonis." p. 213.
When the annual procession formed to mourn the death of Adonis, earth was placed in shells, and lettuce planted in it, in commemoration of Adonis laid out on a bed of lettuces. These shells were called the Gardens of Adonis. Their freshness soon withered, on account of the shallowness of the earth.