Hypnosis in children's literature.
Like a certain number of you, it was indeed the Kaa/Mowgli scene in Disney's version of THE JUNGLE BOOK that planted the seed of fascination with hypnosis into my childhood mind, but I'm not sure whether it would have blossomed into a lifelong interest/hobby/fetish if it hadn;t been nurtured along the way by instances of hypnosis in books I read (or had read to me by my mother) as a child.
I'm not going to discuss (except here) some obvious children's book series that feature hypnosis as a major plot device such as MOLLY MOON and CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS (not to mention mind control magic in HARRY POTTER) simply because they weren't around when I was a kid, though, obviously, feel free to discuss those books if they had an influence on you.
CLEVER POLLY AND THE STUPID WOLF: a British book series containing short stories of a wolf that wants to eat a clever girl named Polly, who would always turn the tables on him. In one chapter, the wolf tries to hypnotize Polly to... I don't remember, sit still and not resist his attempts to devour her, but Polly tricks him into staring at the sun and hypnotizes him to leave her alone, though I presume the hypnotic suggestion wore off as there were more chapters and books.
THE DEMON HEADMASTER: Oh god, this was hypnosis fetish fuel for me as a kid/young teen. A girl is a new student at a school where every single student is hypnotized by the headmaster (principal) to be model students and he tries to hypnotize all of England via a TV show, though the girl, and a handful of kids who are immune to hypnosis thwart him. It's a whole book series, but I only ever read the first book and I never saw the 1990s TV adaptation, but I'm damn sure that was the book that cemented my hypnosis fetish beyond just childhood fantasy. I think there are several hentai games in Japan that deal with a whole school of hypnotized students, I wonder THE DEMON HEADMASTER was an influence?
PICK-A-PATH: These were pretty much the same thing as CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE books, though slimmer and (presumably) meant for slightly younger readers/ I remember several of them had hypnosis scenes, even in stories where hypnosis didn't seem to fit, almost as though one of the authors of the series had a specific interest in hypnosis himself/herself. The one I remember best is DINOSAUR ADVENTURE, where the kid travels back to the dinosaur era with a handheld time machine that looks like a tape recorder. In one of the endings, it turns out that the "time machine" was, in fact, a tape recorder and the whole dinosaur adventure was just a hypnotic fantasy implanted in his mind by a hypnosis tape given to him by a professor. There was another book in the series, I don't remember what it was exactly, but some researchers have kidnapped you for whatever research purpose and they take you to a blue room with a comfortable chair where a voice over the speakers tries to hypnotize you, and the reader is given the choice to either resist the hypnosis (by thinking about SUPERMAN r something) or to let them hypnotize you, and I distinctly remember them describing the experience of being hypnotized as pleasurable and fun, although the story ended there if you picked that option.
There was another book series, and I don't remember what it was but it had something to do with kids/teens solving mysteries and it most definitely wasn't ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN. There was this one story where they were trying to get people to confess to some petty little crime, so they put on a show in the school auditorium with a lot of drumming and they raised the temperature in the room, and, somehow, that worked at hypnotizing everyone and they got the confession they wanted. It seems kind of far-fetched, I think people would either just doze off or walk out of the room instead of falling into a hypnotized state, but I'm not the writer. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Please feel free to discuss anything I've mentioned or anything else that falls under the vaguely-defined category of children's literature with hypnosis scenes.
I'm not going to discuss (except here) some obvious children's book series that feature hypnosis as a major plot device such as MOLLY MOON and CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS (not to mention mind control magic in HARRY POTTER) simply because they weren't around when I was a kid, though, obviously, feel free to discuss those books if they had an influence on you.
CLEVER POLLY AND THE STUPID WOLF: a British book series containing short stories of a wolf that wants to eat a clever girl named Polly, who would always turn the tables on him. In one chapter, the wolf tries to hypnotize Polly to... I don't remember, sit still and not resist his attempts to devour her, but Polly tricks him into staring at the sun and hypnotizes him to leave her alone, though I presume the hypnotic suggestion wore off as there were more chapters and books.
THE DEMON HEADMASTER: Oh god, this was hypnosis fetish fuel for me as a kid/young teen. A girl is a new student at a school where every single student is hypnotized by the headmaster (principal) to be model students and he tries to hypnotize all of England via a TV show, though the girl, and a handful of kids who are immune to hypnosis thwart him. It's a whole book series, but I only ever read the first book and I never saw the 1990s TV adaptation, but I'm damn sure that was the book that cemented my hypnosis fetish beyond just childhood fantasy. I think there are several hentai games in Japan that deal with a whole school of hypnotized students, I wonder THE DEMON HEADMASTER was an influence?
PICK-A-PATH: These were pretty much the same thing as CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE books, though slimmer and (presumably) meant for slightly younger readers/ I remember several of them had hypnosis scenes, even in stories where hypnosis didn't seem to fit, almost as though one of the authors of the series had a specific interest in hypnosis himself/herself. The one I remember best is DINOSAUR ADVENTURE, where the kid travels back to the dinosaur era with a handheld time machine that looks like a tape recorder. In one of the endings, it turns out that the "time machine" was, in fact, a tape recorder and the whole dinosaur adventure was just a hypnotic fantasy implanted in his mind by a hypnosis tape given to him by a professor. There was another book in the series, I don't remember what it was exactly, but some researchers have kidnapped you for whatever research purpose and they take you to a blue room with a comfortable chair where a voice over the speakers tries to hypnotize you, and the reader is given the choice to either resist the hypnosis (by thinking about SUPERMAN r something) or to let them hypnotize you, and I distinctly remember them describing the experience of being hypnotized as pleasurable and fun, although the story ended there if you picked that option.
There was another book series, and I don't remember what it was but it had something to do with kids/teens solving mysteries and it most definitely wasn't ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN. There was this one story where they were trying to get people to confess to some petty little crime, so they put on a show in the school auditorium with a lot of drumming and they raised the temperature in the room, and, somehow, that worked at hypnotizing everyone and they got the confession they wanted. It seems kind of far-fetched, I think people would either just doze off or walk out of the room instead of falling into a hypnotized state, but I'm not the writer. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Please feel free to discuss anything I've mentioned or anything else that falls under the vaguely-defined category of children's literature with hypnosis scenes.