HYPNOTIC EYES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12775, 20 October 1919, Page 6

HYPNOTIC EYES.

NOTORIOUS MEN COMPARED

Professor Pactat, the Paris phvsiognomist, has discovered that Bluebeard or Lanaru, and Ra.-nutm, the mvstcrious Russian monk who swayed the tortunes of the Czar’s Empire, were twin souls. Studying photograph- of the two men, the piofessor, interviewed by the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Express,” said;—

“Both Landru and Rasputin have almost conical skulls, both heads show great cruelty, egotism, ambition and lovo ot authority, winch both men tried to impose by psychic force- Bluebeard's head, however, is less powerful than the Russian monk’s. i ho grey eyes of both men have a fixity which reveals a formidable magnetic force. Landru and Rasputin were capable of exercising a kind of spiritual attraction by their eyes, which could break clown tho strongest opposition in a weaker person.

“Of tho two men, Rasputin was the more powerful, and was capable of bolding a largo number of victims under bis influence at tho same time. Bluebeard cannot exercise his domination for long, which explains why ho constantly sought fresh prey." The. professor, replying’to a question, said tho existence of a “ female Landru ” was not impossible. “ Woman,” he said, “ is a greater artist than man in amorous dissimulation, and therefore stronger. Beware of grey eyes. It is they which have the strongest fluid of force.”