IN TRANCE FOR YEAR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 December 1927, Page 9

IN TRANCE FOR YEAR

WOMAN'S IRON NERVE STRANGE RECOVERY From the little yillage of; Bozeat, on the borders of Northamptonshire - and Bedfordshire, , comes the strange -\ story of a woman who, after being in a trance for 12 months, recovered by her own strength of will. She attributes her recovery to autosuggestion," while a friend "who was with hei- during her illness says that it.wastho patient's iron porvo that For 20 years Mrs Longland, wife of a farmer, has been a bed-ridden invalid, and for the last four years she has had to be artificially fed. During this period she lost her powers of speech and movement, and lay in a trance for a year. Some months ago the doctors informed the members of'her family that she was .dying. \ ; . VOICE .FROM DEAD Suddenly the invalid tried to struggle up in bed. Her husband put his ears to her'lips and heard •' his* wife's voice, for so many months : ' silent, asking faintly, for water. ' Throughout the' night the family watched, arid in. the early morning they were startled to- see her sitting up. She complained of hunger, and ate a hearty meal. . •.. Concerning her recovery, Mrs Longland said: "As I lay in bod I suddenly thought I could walk. I got out and sure enough I was able to pull myself up By the bed-post and walk round the bed. "When the doctor came I had to do, it again—and did it even better. I feel stronger and better now than I can ever remember feeling before."