Trance Collection

The Dance of Dervishes, c1870. Artist: W Forrest
The Dance of Dervishes, c1870. Whirling dance and practice of the Mevlevi Order in Turkey

Dancing Dervishes, Folio from a Divan of Hafiz, ca. 1480. Creator: Bihzad
Dancing Dervishes, Folio from a Divan of Hafiz, ca. 1480

Dancing Dervishes, Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530-50

Mrs Françoise Leijoncrona, 1700. Creator: Michael Dahl
Mrs Francoise Leijoncrona, 1700

Ecstasy of Saint Francis, 1809. Creator: William Say
Ecstasy of Saint Francis, 1809

The Carbuncle, plate three from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Carbuncle, plate three from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

Shaman and shamanka, 1862. Creator: Karlis Huns
Shaman and shamanka, 1862. Sheet 54 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1

Buffalo Dance - Mandan, 1861. Creator: George Catlin
Buffalo Dance - Mandan, 1861. The men of the tribe dance night and day, until the buffaloes return

The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing (Aubry de La Mottrayes " Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa... " London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 16), 1723-24

Mercury and Argus, ca. 1630-1648. Creator: Simone Cantarini
Mercury and Argus, ca. 1630-1648

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1868. Creator: Henry Marsh
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1868. After John La Farge

Hypnotism, 1891. Male hypnotist putting a young woman into an hypnotic trance. Animal magnetism or hypnotism had a revival at the end of the 19th century

Worship in Russia, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 19th July 1903

Hypnosis subject suffering from imaginary toothache, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin

Subject going into a hypnotic trance, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893)

Subjects hypnotised by the sound of a gong, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Hypnotised subject in a state of catalepsy, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Hypnotised subjects attracted by a matchbox, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley giving a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Haida tribe Native American figure of a medicine man
Haida tribe Native North American wooden figure of a shaman prepared for burial. The inscription says: This man was lost in the woods. He fell and broke both legs and was found as represented here

Snake charmer with cobra, in Sri Lanka

Dervishes, Constantinople, Turkey, 1853. Dervishes, members of a Muslim religious order founded in the 12th century, dancing

Dervishes, 19th century. Dervishes, members of a Muslim religious order founded in the 12th century, dancing and performing the ritual of remembering God in a self-induced ecstatic trance

Hypnotic trance induced during Voodoo dance rites, Louisiana, USA, 1886. Voodoo is a synthesis of Roman Catholic and West African magic and beliefs

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