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Well, I saw Krishna put people into cataleptic trances. Their bodies stiffened as though they were dead and rigor mortis had set in.

9 seconds sound clip from the The Adventures of Superman - The Mystery of The Walking Dead classic radio series.

You can hear this line at 00:14:13 in the radio play.

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[...]

- This man has a kind of - power.

- Well, sure! That's what I'm trying to tell ya. The power of suggestion!

- Clark, that isn't what I mean.

- Look-Wait a minute now, wait.

- If people kept telling you that you looked bad, that you were sick, if they kept harping on it over and over again, do you know what would happen? You'd get sick. You might even die.

- Why, good heavens, there are people who talk themselves into imaginary illnesses, let alone having anyone else do it.

- That isn't what I mean. You know what catalepsis is?

- Sure. A state of trance.

- Yes.

- Well, I saw Krishna put people into cataleptic trances. Their bodies stiffened as though they were dead and rigor mortis had set in.

- I saw that with my own eyes, Clark! And if he can do that for others, why can't he do it for himself?

- Oh ho, now, it's one thing to work black magic in a half-darkened voodoo temple... It's quite another thing to do it in a prison cell with a prison doctor standing by.

- Now, you take my word for it: Krishna is dead. Dead and gone.

- Don't answer that, Clark!

- Why not?

- Please! Please don't answer it! Clark, don't answer it!

- Lois, let go of my arm. Now don't be stupid.

[...]

The Adventures of Superman Sound Clip

The Adventures of SupermanQuotes with audio samples from the old-time radio series "The Adventures of Superman" that originally aired from 1940 to 1951

Actors: Bud Collyer (Clark Kent / Superman), Joan Alexander (Lois Lane)

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