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Bryant Haliday, best known for being one of the co-founders of the American arthouse movie distributor Janus Films, plays The Great Vorelli, a sinister ventriloquist and mesmerist with a huge following in London.

From The Verge • Jun. 21, 2019

And even Grimes himself became a mesmerist of sorts, in that he produced Buchanan’s mind-altering stunts on stage through suggestion.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2018

But Lee kept his golden eyes fixed on me, and soon it became difficult to say who was the mesmerist and who was succumbing to hypnosis.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

Hopkins, the one jolly soul in the family, is a sage from an earlier age — the mesmerist as optimist.

From Time • Mar. 27, 2014

But afore he could set hisself down, the mesmerist said with a voice that was fulled up with disappointment, “Sam-u-well, Sam-u-well, Sam-u-well.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis