Indian wizards, every magical operation depended on an incantation,
and every incantation on the feeling, intonation, or manner in which
it is sung. Thus near Rome any peasant overhearing a _scongiurasione_
would recognize it from the _sound_ alone.

Anyone, male or female, can have a deep, rich voice by simply subduing
and training it, and very rarely raising it to a high pitch. _Nota
bene_ that the less this is affected the more effective it will be.
There are many, especially women, who speak, as it were, all time in
italics, when they do not set their speech in small caps or displayed
large capitals. The result of this, as regards sound, is the so-called
nasal voice, which is very much like caterwauling, and I need not say
that there is no fascination in it--on the contrary its tendency is to
destroy any other kind of attraction. It is generally far more due to
an ill-trained, unregulated, excitable, nervous temperament than to
any other cause.

The training the voice to a subdued state "like music in its softest
key," or to rich, deep tones, though it be done artificially, has an
extraordinary effect on the character and on others. It is associated
with a well-trained mind and one gifted with self-control. One of the
richest voices to which I ever listened was that of the poet TENNYSON.
I can remember another man of marvelous mind, vast learning, and
æsthetic-poetic power who also had one of those voices which exercised
great influence on all who heard it.

There is an amusing parallel as regards nasal-screaming voices in the
fact that a donkey cannot bray unless he at the same time lifts his
tail--but if the tail be _tied down_, the beast must be silent. So the
man or woman, whose voice like that of the erl-king's is "ghostly