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It was probably either a tuahu or a burying-place; the tuahu was the spot where the tribal gods, or, rather, their symbols in wood and stone, were kept, and where the wise men, the tohungas, resorted for incantation and occult ceremonies and the black art of t
Read record →A peaceful man, Well worthy of your love was he, Who, while the roaring Garry ran Red with the life-blood of Dundee, While coats were turning, crowns were falling, Wandered along his valley still, And heard your mystic voices calling From fairy knowe and haunt
Read record →The tomb, in Scott’s time, was to be seen in the east end of the churchyard of Aberfoyle; but the ashes of Mr
Read record →The tract, of which the reader now knows the history, is a little volume of somewhat singular character
Read record →It “transfers” thoughts of no value, at a great expense of time and of serious hard work
Read record →Kirk’s first chapter, “Of the Subterranean Inhabitants,” naturally suggests the recent speculations of Mr
Read record →Once more, we often read in the Sagas of a hero like Grettir, who opens a howe, has a conflict with a “barrow-wight,” as Mr
Read record →A good case in point is that of Bessie Dunlop, of Dalry, in Ayrshire, tried on 8th November 1576 for witchcraft
Read record →Kirk recognises “an abstruse People,” who were before our more substantial race, whose furrows are still to be seen on the hill-tops
Read record →All things, in Red Indian belief, have somewhere their ideal counterpart or “Father.” Thus a donkey, when first seen, was regarded as “the Father” or archetype “of Rabbits.” Now the second-sighted behold the “Double-man,” “Doppel-ganger,” “Astral Body,” “Wrait
Read record →As Homer fables of the dead, their speech is a kind of whistling like the cry of bats—another indication of the pre-Christian Hades.[6] They have feasts and burials; and Pashley, in his Travels in Crete, tells the well-known Border story of a man who fired on
Read record →The dwellings of these airy shadows of mankind are, naturally, “Fairie Hills.” There is such a hill, the Fairy Hill at Aberfoyle, where Mr
Read record →The Fairy belief, we have said, is a composite thing
Read record →The modern recorders are not consciously copying from old accounts; the coincidences therefore have their value, as proving that certain phenomena have occurred and recurred
Read record →Beginning, then, with what is nearest to us in time, we take Mr
Read record →A chair flew about, and at last lighted on the table, where victuals stood ready to eat, and was likely to spoil all, only by a nimble catching they saved some of their meat
Read record →I, casting my eyes thither, perceived a little white hand and arm from the elbow down, but presently it evanished.” “There was never anything seen except that hand I saw,” and an apparition of a boy in grey clothes
Read record →In the presence of a clergyman, chairs walked about the room of themselves, “a bed-staff was thrown at the minister, but so favourably that a lock of wool could not have fallen more softly.” The children, as usual, were especially haunted
Read record →This little parcel of strange stories may suffice to show that part of the Fairy belief is based on such incidents as still occur, or are reported to occur, just in the old fashion
Read record →The Society may find out, experimentally, whether second sight can be acquired in the manner described by Mr
Read record →Lord Tarbott’s letter to an inquirer, Robert Boyle, is added by Mr
Read record →He may have been reading “the learned Dr
Read record →Richet, and other psychologists do not at present help us much in the matter of veridical second sight
Read record →These Siths, or FAIRIES, they call Sleagh Maith, or the Good People, it would seem, to prevent the Dint of their ill Attempts, (for the Irish use to bless all they fear Harme of;) and are said to be of a midle Nature betuixt Man and Angel, as were Dæmons thoug
Read record →Their chamælion-lyke Bodies swim in the Air near the Earth with Bag and Bagadge; and at such revolution of Time, SEERS, or Men of the SECOND SIGHT, (Fæmales being seldome so qualified) have very terrifying Encounters with them, even on High Ways; who therefoir
Read record →THEY are clearly seen by these Men of the SECOND SIGHT to eat at Funeralls [and] Banquets; hence many of the Scottish-Irish will not teast Meat at these Meittings, lest they have Communion with, or be poysoned by, them
Read record →But if any Superterraneans be so subtile, as to practice Slights for procuring a Privacy to any of their Misteries, (such as making use of their Oyntments, which as Gyges’s Ring makes them invisible, or nimble, or casts them in a Trance, or alters their Shape,
Read record →The TABHAISVER, or Seer, that corresponds with this kind of Familiars, can bring them with a Spel to appear to himselfe or others when he pleases, as readily as Endor Witch to those of her Kind
Read record →THE MEN of that SECOND SIGHT do not discover strange Things when asked, but at Fits and Raptures, as if inspyred with some Genius at that Instant, which before did lurk in or about them
Read record →The Deer scents out a Man and Powder (tho a late Invention) at a great Distance; a hungry Hunter, Bread; and the Raven, a Carrion: Ther Brains, being long clarified by the high and subtil Air, will observe a very small Change in a Trice
Read record →IN the nixt Country to that of my former Residence, about the Year 1676, when there was some Scarcity of Graine, a marvelous Illapse and Vision strongly struck the Imagination of two Women in one Night, living at a good Distance from one another, about a Treas
Read record →Even English Authors relate (of) Barry Island, in Glamorganshire, that laying your Ear into a Clift of the Rocks, blowing of Bellows, stricking of Hammers, clashing of Armour, fyling of Iron, will be heard distinctly ever since Merlin inchaunted those subterra
Read record →THERE be odd Solemnities at investing a Man with the Priviledges of the whole Mistery of this Second Sight
Read record →I HEARD very much, but beleived very little, of the Second Sight; yet its being assumed by severall of great Veracity, I was induced to make Inquirie after it in the Year 1652, being then confin’d to abide in the North of Scotland by the English Usurpers
Read record →Alexander Monro asked him how he knew they were Englishmen?
Read record →There were some English Troops then quartered near that Place, and there being at that Time a great Frost after a Thaw, the Country was covered all over with Yce
Read record →The Maid my Lord mentions, who saw her Image still before her, suteth with the CO-WALKER named in my Account; which tho some, at first Thought, might conjecture to be by the Refraction of a Cloud or Mist, as in the Parelij, (the whole Air and every Drop of Wat
Read record →BY my Lord’s good Leave, I presume to say, that this Sight can be no Quality of the Air nor of the Eyes; becaus, 1
Read record →To which Purpose the learned lynx-ey’d Mr
Read record →THE invisible Wights which haunt Houses seem rather to be some of our subterranean Inhabitants, (which appear often to Men of the Second Sight,) than evill Spirits or Devills; because, tho they throw great Stones, Pieces of Earth and Wood, at the Inhabitants,
Read record →It is lyke a Rabbinical Tradition, in way of Comment on Jachin and Boaz, the two Pillars erected in Solomon’s Temple, (1 Kings, 7
Read record →If there be such a contagious nervous disease, it is a very remarkable malady, and well worth examining
Read record →But he also mentions a boy “of juvenile piety,” who “for twelve months deceived his father, a distinguished surgeon, and all his family, by pretended spiritualistic manifestations, which appeared at first sight inexplicable, until the cunning trickery of the l
Read record →The arrows are the ancient flint arrow-heads, which Mr
Read record →What is this theory of “Men illiterate and unwary in their Observations,” but Von Hartmann’s doctrine of “the nerve force which issues from the body of the medium, and then proceeds to set up fresh centres of force in all neighbouring objects
Read record →The hypothesis that the Fairy belief may be a tradition of an ancient race dwelling in subterranean homes, is older than Mr
Read record →24, 1699), he says, “I have got a manuscript since I last came to Scotland, whose author, though a parson, after giving a very full account of the Second Sight, defends there being no sin in it
Read record →However, it is something to feel assured that “a memorable story” was accepted at the time by the family of the bride, and was known to Lauderdale.[40] Lauderdale himself, by the way, was a psychical researcher, and accommodated Richard Baxter with some accoun
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