SLEPT THIRTY-ONE YEARS.
SPANISH WOMAN'S HAIR GROWS WHITE DURING A TRANCE. Leonora Romaldo, the wife of a farm hand at Villacienso, near Burgos, Italy, has awakened from a trance which has lasted 31'years. The case has been under the close observation of medical experts during the whole of that time, and by their instructions liquid food was regularly administered by a tube placed in the mouth of the sleeping woman.
At times it was believed that the woman was waking, and various means were employed to restore her to consciousness, but they failed. She lias now regained'her senses, but cannot be persuaded that she has slept for years. A curious feature of the case is that she remembers the incidents of her girlhood up to the time that she fell into the trance. Her body is fairly well nourished, but her hair has turned white. On being shown a mirror the woman shrieked with horror, and declared that the image it reflected was not her own.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 41, 22 May 1906, Page 8
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166SLEPT THIRTY-ONE YEARS. Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 41, 22 May 1906, Page 8
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