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Just as the gods of Valhalla ever looked forward to the day of their destruction, so Hell rather than Heaven has always held the leading place in the Scottish imagination
Read record →As in Rome and Greece, the witch was firmly settled in Scotland centuries before the coming of Christianity
Read record →In due time the witches began their work of ṻbag, obag and gisreag (charm, incantation and chanting), but with little initial effect
Read record →Against witches of such prowess he must be a powerful man--saint or king--who would gainsay them
Read record →Indeed, the whole family of this peccant nobleman proved, on investigation, to be tarred with the same magical brush
Read record →In the following year occurred a witch-trial of interest in itself, and the cause of the great outburst of persecution which for the next century makes the annals of Scottish justice run red with innocent blood--that of Dr
Read record →It is, perhaps, only characteristic of the national attitude towards the whole subject that the "White," or amiable, witch was held in as great detestation as her "Black," or malignant, sister
Read record →Such is the similarity of the various Scottish witch-trials that too-detailed recapitulation would be tedious and unprofitable
Read record →Two of the accused were domestic servants in service at Edinburgh, and with that love of finery which even now attends their kind
Read record →Political ups and downs, whomever else they might affect, made no difference in the hard lot of the witch--save, indeed, that she was regarded as belonging to the opposite party by that in power
Read record →Search being made, his image was found up the chimney
Read record →The universality of the belief in witchcraft carried in its train international belief in the efficacy of persecution as its cure
Read record →In France, as elsewhere, the seventeenth century saw the witch-fever rise to its most extravagant height
Read record →The same causes which rendered the French persecutions more severe while they lasted, also brought it about that any relaxation of the Governmental attitude diminished them to a greater extent than was the case in England, where witchcraft had a more personal
Read record →Germany--the land of sentiment, no less than of common sense--was not different from her neighbours in her method of regarding the witch
Read record →A pathetic incident is recorded of another formidable outburst of the witch-mania--at Bamberg in 1628
Read record →There were besides six-and-thirty children that ran the gauntlet and twenty were whipt on the hands at the Church-door every Sunday for three weeks together." The whole proceedings were, indeed, almost a children's drama and no emanation of childish imaginatio
Read record →The precarious existence of the infant State also gave its leaders every ground for taking the severest measures towards anything considered to be dangerous to its welfare
Read record →Margaret Jones was found guilty of the crime of witchcraft, and was hanged according to the law
Read record →In 1655, Ann Hibbins was hanged at Boston for witchcraft; there were witch-executions in different places at ever-decreasing intervals
Read record →It was found that she could not say the Lord's Prayer, even when it was repeated to her clause by clause, and when she was committed it was found that all the children "had some present ease." The supposed witch was brought to trial, but, being an Irishwoman,
Read record →In 1692 Salem village was the scene of a fierce outbreak against witchcraft, which lasted some 16 months
Read record →The witchcraft scare in Salem began in the house of Mr
Read record →t may be excited on the brain of another person, transferred thither from our brain by pulling a suitable trigger; by liberating energy in the form of sound, for instance, or by the mechanical act of writing, or in other ways
Read record →This newly recognised sense, “the sixth sense,” not only answers the purpose of sight and hearing, but transcends all senses in vividness and power
Read record →Richardson notwithstanding, “in dreams and visions of the night” God has manifested himself to man in all ages
Read record →The piece of plaster must have weighed fully a stone, and had it struck Williams the result would doubtless have been fatal
Read record →George Wyld, in a paper read before the Psychical Research Society, London, “is French, and means clear-seeing, but it appears to me to be an inadequate term, because it might signify clear optical vision, or clear mental vision
Read record →That certain persons are endowed with this faculty of clear seeing--in some of its various phases--is a matter settled beyond dispute
Read record →It is the state of refined psychic perception
Read record →ate and mystic ceremonies indulged in by Hindoo mystics, Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman priests, had the one grand end in view--viz., to induce the requisite state of super-sensitivity, and thus prepare the consecrated youths, sybils, and vestal virgins for the
Read record →To illustrate a new subject, it is permissible to draw upon the old and the well-known
Read record →From the first glimmerings, to the possession of well-defined sight, a period of growth and time elapses
Read record →Elevated, or rather, liberated into this new condition, the clairvoyant loses connection with the thrums and threads of the physical organism, and is unable, or forgets for a time, how to speak of things as they are, or as they would appear to the physical vis
Read record →MʽKinnon, late pastor of Chalmers’ Free Church, Glasgow, told me a short time ago, “Clairvoyance was nothing more than a high nervous concentrated form of mental vision,” to which I replied, “Admitting the hypothesis--which, however, explained nothing--it matt
Read record →“There happened to live at this time in Chicago a person named Abraham James, a simple-minded man, of Quaker descent, uneducated, and in fact, quite an ignorant person
Read record →We were both sceptical in the matter of clairvoyance
Read record →arrived in Rothesay for the first time about four hours previously to taking her seat upon the platform, in the New Public Halls
Read record →Croad is deaf, dumb, and paralysed, and stone blind
Read record →might be further illustrated by the well known case of Miss Eliza Hamilton, who became paralysed in her limbs and right arm, through severe injury to the spine
Read record →Hudson Tuttle, “read in her presence a letter he had received from a friend in Leeds, speaking of the loss of his daughter, about whose fate he was very unhappy, as she had disappeared nearly a month before, and left no trace
Read record →Miss Mollie Fancher, of Brooklyn Heights, fell off a tramway car when eighteen years of age, experienced very severe injuries to head and spine, her body being dragged a distance, through her dress catching on the step of the car
Read record →Loomis, by passes, threw his wife into a mesmeric state, as he often does, and an intelligence, which claimed to be the spirit of her mother, spoke through her lips
Read record →“Prophecy,” says Buchanan, “is the noblest aspect of psychometry, and there is no reason why it should not become the guiding power to each individual life, and the guiding power of the destiny of nations.” For instance, while all Europe feared for Boulanger,
Read record →He had demonstrated the responsive action of cerebral organs to mesmeric touch and influence, and he was already acquainted with the curious psychological phenomena of sense and thought transference, of double consciousness, and all the nervous and pathologica
Read record →Thoughts are things--living, real and tangible, images, visions, deep and pungent sensations--which exist after their creation distinct and apart from ourselves--“Footprints on the sands of time,” in more senses than one
Read record →The psychometer, unlike the induced clairvoyant or entranced medium, is in general, or outwardly at least, a mere spectator, as one who beholds a drama or witnesses a panorama, and tells in his own way to someone else what he sees and what he thinks about it
Read record →She held the shilling in her hand for sometime, and said:--‘This carries me back to a time of confusion and much anxiety, with a feeling that everything depended upon a successful result
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