TEARS OF BLOOD.

Otago Witness, Issue 3859, 28 February 1928, Page 34

TEARS OF BLOOD.

WOUNDS THAT HEAL AT WILL.

GERMAN MINER'S STRANGE FEATS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 10. A story comes from Berlin of a strong and healthy Silesian miner named Paul Dicbel, aged 32, who has given before a select company of doctors in Berlin a demonstration of a “ turn ” which he is shortly to begin at the Wintergarten Variety Theatre. Diebel, while a prisoner in the hands of the Russians during the war and under sentence of death, sought to forestall his fate b- opening his wrist veins. By a concentration of will he observed that he was -ble arbitrarily to reduce the flow of blood. On his escape and return home he made further experiments in will concentration. He found that he could not only stop the flow of blood from a wound, but also produce such a flow from undamaged portions of his skin and render himself insensible to pain. At the Berlin demonstration he stepped on to the stage and remained for 20 minutes under close expert observation. At the end of that time blood began to stream from the region of his eyes without the application of any external cause. The. “ blood tears ” likewise stopped at his will without leaving any wound marks. This was the most difficult operation. To produce blood from the neighbourhood of his knee or a cross on his chest required a matter of only five minutes’ concentration. Smilingly, too, he allowed his hand to be nailed to the tab’e or stuck a dagger through his arm. These operations were accompanied bv no bleeding nor any sign of pain, and the wounds 1 healed up completely in 24 hours. Seeing that Diebel is the father of a family and otherwise apparently in every sense a normal man, and that the circumstances of the demonstration were, it wou’d appear, such as to exclude the possibility of deception, the medical experts have not yet ventured themselves on an explanation.