The most startling of these phenomena, however, are those known as stigmatization, when the combined power of fervent, exalted faith and an over-excited imagination produces actual marks of injuries on the body, although no such injuries have ever been inflicted.
"Modern Magic"
Maximilian Schele de Vere
That his visions were accompanied by actual stigmatization has already been mentioned.
"Modern Magic"
Maximilian Schele de Vere
In desperation Rabbi Gershon asked a friend of his, Rabbi Mekatier, to take Israel to a mad woman, who told people their good and bad qualities, and whose stigmatization, he thought, might have an effect upon his graceless brother-in-law.
"Dreamers of the Ghetto"
I. Zangwill