ABSTRACT
Joseph Ezer seems to have been led on his own to using a clever combination of the two possible methods of inducing submission, namely, gentleness and terror, and taming an otherwise untamable animal by a combination of paternal and maternal suggestion. He was a short, stocky man of peasant-like appearance, aged about thirty. He seemed pretty self-confident and chatted unconcernedly with all the important personages who had gathered to see him. On April 29th, 1912, by permission of the Budapest mounted police, the author attended a demonstration by Joseph Ezer, the Tolna blacksmith, who claimed to be able to tame the wildest horse at a single attempt. According to the testimonials that Ezer produced, the effect on the horses he treated in this manner was permanent. They either ceased altogether to be unmanageable, or at least became much more tractable than before.
