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MAGIC the Great Bear, "dipper", or "plough" appeared some 22,000 years ago. It is to the Continent of Atlantis that the order of the Magi traces its origin, the Continent which sank beneath the waves ages and ages before the first page of history begins to record the accurate story of mankind.
Since publishing “The Invisible Influence”, I have received a great number of stories of people who have suffered the loss of health, and of property-sometimes of life-as the result of sorcery or black magic. Most of these stories are similar to one another in their general characteristics. The power of the witch-doctor amongst uneducated and savage tribes is due to the hypnotic influence exercised by a trained and powerful will upon a passive or fearful victim. The imagination is the seat of the bewitchment, and we have already noticed how great is the power of the imagination over both the mind and the body. An imagination obsessed by fear can even bring about death.
Another correspondent has forwarded me the following story of an Arab magician in Algeria.
In 1918 a certain Arab living in the district of Ain Sefra was causing considerable uneasiness to the authorities by his uncanny doings.
