may safely assert, can find their solution in a combination of three causes—a sort of epidemic superstition among ignorant persons; some of the phenomena of trance or epileptic sleep ; and special monomaniac diseases which it is the province of the physician to study. From— The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.), 04 Aug. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.