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A Magician Hypnotizes 75 School Children – Really?
Hypnotism is the School
You send your child to school for their young brain to be expanded and educated but to be put into a state of deep hypnosis? Not so much. But for parents at the Institución Educativa Ciudad Mocoa in southwestern Colombia, that is –reportedly – just what happened.
According to reports, seventy-five students were put into some kind of hypnotic state which was so intense the children had to be sent to the hospital. The hypnotist – along with two of his trusty assistants – have since been apprehended and arrested. And although all the moms and dads are pretty upset that this “mischievous magician” would and could perform a mass hypnosis session on the children they want him back in contact with their kids. Why?
The parents have been pleading for the authorities to bring the magician to the hospital so he can reverse the trance he put the children under. But why would this man do such a thing? To flex his powers? To use the children for some kind of kid army? Or just because he could? Or was it all just mass suggested behavior rather than real mass hypnosis? So many questions that only the hypnotist could really answer. But those who ask him things, well they might be under his spell as well, so odds are, we’ll never know.
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3 Comments
goddess commented on Sep 03 11 at 12:20 pmOr maybe it was mass hysteria.
Diera commented on Sep 03 11 at 3:09 pmYeah, I don’t think there’s actually any such thing as mass hypnosis that puts people into a trance. I vote mass hysteria.
Georgia Mommy commented on Sep 05 11 at 10:18 amI was once at a conference where a hynotist picked so many people out of the crowd and put them under hypnosis. I had never seen it done before, and was skeptical he would do it. After the show and the vidoe cameras were turned off, many of the students (we were in high school) did not think they did what we told them they had. They were shown the video so that they would believe us and finally they did. It was a very interesting night to say the least!
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