cataleptics

This would account for the fact that places where cataleptics and idiots have died are often haunted by semi and by wholly animal types of phantasms.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

One feels cold inside conjuring up the spectacle of a pack of experts who have been called in to be present at a meeting of the War Council or the Cabinet, sitting there mute and inarticulate like cataleptics while the members of the Government taking part in the colloquy embark on some course that is fraught with danger to the State.

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics, sensible of what passed around them, but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death?

The Frozen Pirate 1877

"Do you believe that those enamored cataleptics who worship ladies at a hundred paces 'distance, without daring to speak out, love perfectly?"

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855