animal magnetism

purported force in living things
Class type of: non-verbal hypnosis Q547546
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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Franz Anton Mesmer[1]
  • Instance of: alternative medicine[2], branch of pseudoscience[3]
  • Subclass of: non-verbal hypnosis[4]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[7], The American Cyclopædia[8], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[9]
  • Different from: hypnosis[10]

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  1. 6d ago · Marcoanneville · 2026-10-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → non-verbal hypnosis
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Subclass of: non-verbal hypnosis, form of non-verbal hypnosis"
  2. 6d ago · Marcoanneville · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → principle, alternative medicine, branch of pseudoscience
    Subclass of → non-verbal hypnosis
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-update:0| */ remove unreferenced 'instance of/subclass of hypnosis': sources distinguish animal magnetism from (suggestion-based) hypnosis, see P1889 references and Talk:Q547546"
  3. 6d ago · Marcoanneville · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', '
    Different from → hypnosis
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Different from: hypnosis, add referenced 'different from hypnosis' (Albert d'Angers 1905, Berco 1904, Méheust 1999); see Talk:Q547546"
  4. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → animal-magnetism, mesmerism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: mesmerism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948563|mesmerism (#289948563)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  5. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → animal-magnetism, mesmerism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: animal-magnetism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289913839|animal magnetism (#289913839)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  6. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → non-verbal hypnosis
    Instance of → principle, alternative medicine, branch of pseudoscience
    Discoverer or inventor → Franz Anton Mesmer
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 10062, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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