Like a somnambulist aroused from her sleep Natasha went out of the room and, returning to her hut, fell sobbing on her bed.
To Schroer this derivation seems improbable, and he appears to prefer that from Hebrew Mephiz, destroyer, To Faust himself, somnambulist and medium, Mephistopheles had - according to Kiesewetter - a real existence: he was "the objectivation of the transcendental subject of Faust," an experience familiar in dreams and, more especially, in the visions of mediums and clairvoyants.
With these should be classed his Inferno (1897) and Somngangarnatter (" The Nights of a Somnambulist," 1900).
She moved like a somnambulist, so trance-like Dean hesitated to speak for fear of startling her.
