mesmerize

verb2

1. •
   To spellbind; to enthrall.

   • She mesmerized the audience with her tricks
2. •
   To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism.

   • Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also "mesmerised" people by making passes over the affected parts of the body. — 1936