Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — Asleep for Twelve Months. [ARTICLE]

Asleep for Twelve Months.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial at Kuightstown sends to that paper the following: . From a gentleman residing in an out township, some twenty-three miles die tent from this city, in a German settlement. we learn the particulars of the following most extraordinary case:

Thereto at present a young woman, quite dead, having "been in that state for nearly twelve months past. She awakens, however, once every twentyfour hours, precisely at 10 o’clock at night, and will convene with tbe fondly end others for about twenty minutes, when she will again relapse into the same comatose state, and remain so until 10 o’clock the following night, at which hour she revives to the minute, throwing out ber aims and folding ber hands together, and rals- & up on her shoulders until the spoors imagine that her bones are cracking. Sto remains In that laborious state for tee space of ten minutes, when she oomes to a perfect possession of her faculties. A singular feature of the case to, the young lady reoollecte well if promises have been made her the previous night, and will be very fretful for a time if the same are not fulfilled, bat, singular to say, ii the things are brought tec makes use of none of than, as she eats and drinks little, or, in foot, nothing at all. She could never be persuaded to attempt eating any food but three times during thirty-two days, and then put the three together she old not eat any more than a child a year old would take. After conversing a few minutes this remarkable young lady will suddenly clasp ber hands together, threw her arms into the same manner as when awakening, and will return into the same somnolent state as before, until 10 o’clock the following night.