The principal of this institution, Albert bartholin, discovered unusual gifts in the lad and took him into his own home.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
But a far more remarkable phenomenon of a similar kind is mentioned by bartholin, who gives an account of a lady in Italy, whom he rightly styles mulier splendens, whose body became phosphorescent-or rather shone with electric radiations-when slightly rubbed with a piece of dry linen.
"Modern Magic"
Maximilian Schele de Vere