[The Mystic Will by Charles Godfrey Leland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystic Will CHAPTER IX 9/25
This done, sleep on it, with the resolute will to have it recur on the morrow in a clear and solved form.
And should this occur, do not proceed to pull it to pieces again, by way of improvement, but rather submit it to another night's rest.
I would here say that many lawyers and judges are perfectly familiar with this process, and use it habitually, without being aware of its connection with hypnotism or will.
But they could aid it, if they would add this peculiar _impulse_ to the action. What I will now discuss approaches the miraculous, or seems to do so because it has been attempted or treated in manifold ways by sorcerers and witches.
The Voodoos, or black wizards in America, profess to be able to awaken love in one person for another by means of incantations, but admit that it is the most difficult of their feats. Nor do I think that there is any infallible recipe for it, but that there are means of _honestly_ aiding such affection can hardly be denied.
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