We might say that the nuns of Auxonne were accessible to suggestion; for, at the command or even the thought of the exorcists, they fell into a condition of somnambulism; in this state they became insensible to pain, as was determined by pricking Sister Denise under the finger-nail with a needle; they had also the faculty of prosternating the body, making it assume the form of a circle,—in other words, they could bend their limbs in any direction. The Bishop of Chalons reports that “all the before mentioned girls, secular as well as regular, to the number of eighteen, _had the gift of Language_, and responded to the exorcists _in Latin_, making, at times, their entire conversation in the classical tongue. “Almost all these nuns had a full knowledge of the secrets and inner thoughts of others;[78] this was demonstrated particularly _in the interior commandments_, which had been made by the exorcists on different occasions, which they obeyed exactly ordinarily, _without the commandments being expressed to them either by words or any external sign_. “The Bishop himself, among others, experimented on the person of Denise Pariset, to whom, _giving a command mentally to come to him immediately and be exorcised_, whereupon the aforesaid nun immediately came to him, although her residence was in a quarter of the village far removed from the Episcopal residence. She said on these occasions that she was commanded to come; and this experiment was repeated several times. “Again, in the person of Sister Jamin, a novice, who on hearing the exorcism, told the Bishop his interior commandment made to the Demon during the ceremony. Also, in the person of Sister Borthon, who, being _commanded mentally_ to make her agitations violent, immediately prostrated herself before the Holy Sacrament, with her belly against the earth and her arms extended, executing the command at the same instant, with a promptitude and precipitation wholly extraordinary.”[79] Here, I believe, are facts so well authenticated of transmission of thought or of mental _suggestions_, perhaps _voluntarily unknown_ to certain modern neurologists. These neuropaths of Auxonne presented still more extraordinary phenomena; at the word of command they suspended the pulsations of the pulse in an arm, in the right arm, for example, and transfered the beatings from the right arm to the left arm, and _vice versa_. This fact was discovered by the Bishop, and many ecclesiastics verified the same, and “it was promptly done in the presence of Doctor Morel, who recognized and makes oath to the fact.”