Those who are stricken in this manner have seen no one, and they go mad or die without suspecting the venefice.

But these voyants are not only rare, they are also unreliable, because other persons can likewise fix them in a cataleptic state and extract confessions from them.

So you see why persons like Docre have recourse to the second method, which is surer.

It consists in evoking, just as in Spiritism, the soul of a dead person and sending it to strike the victim with the prepared spell.

The result is the same but the vehicle is different.