CLAIRVOVANCY IN GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 19127, 19 December 1925, Page 17

CLAIRVOVANCY IN GERMANY

A village schoolmaster of Bembnrg, in Saxony, denounced by jealous neighbors as a “fortune-teller,” has succeeded in agitating all the occultist circles of Germany (states the Berlin correspondent of the London ‘ Observer ’). His claims to sot a normal person in a state of clairvoyancy have been uphold by a court of law. This totally obscure teacher, Droost by name, was interested in hypnotism as a bobby. Tbo many thefts that occurred in his own neighborhood, as in every other plane in Germany, during the paper inflation period, caused him to ask one of the mediums with whom he experimented a question connected with the occurrence. The reply was so correct in its details that Herr Droost was overrun by neighbors who were eager to know the whereabouts of their lost properly. Unfortunately the hypnotiser accepted the proffered present of buffer, bacon, or what nob from grateful inquirers, and any practice of what is known gonorically as “fortune-tell-ing”. by any means whatsoever is severely punished in Germany. The astonishing stories told in the court of what Hits man had accomplished with his mediums, girls and lads from tho countryside, convinced tho court that in future the possibility of suggesting tho state of clairvoyancy to a normal person, who will in that state relate things that occurred days, and even weeks, ago, in an unknown town*