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Mediaeval and other theologians preferred to regard them as angelic or diabolic manifestations, made out of compressed air, or by aid of bodies of the dead, or begotten by the action of angel or devil on the substance of the brain
Read record →Crystal-gazing and 'illusions hypnagogiques'
Read record →Their condition remains perfectly normal, that is, they are wide awake to all that is going on
Read record →There were other modes of using cups and drops of wine, not connected with visions
Read record →In our own time, while many can see pictures, few know what the pictures represent
Read record →Of course, if there is such a thing as occasional transference of thought, so that the idea in the inquirer's mind is reflected in the crystal-gazer's vision, the hypothesis of the superstitious will fix on this as a miracle, still more will that hypothesis be
Read record →The inference is that a presumption is raised in favour of the actuality of the other phenomena universally reported
Read record →Gregory's faith, and, to be fair, phenomena were exhibited at his house, in the presence of a learned and distinguished witness known to the writer, which could only be accounted for either by thought transference, or by an almost, or quite incredible combinat
Read record →Belief in ancient Greece and elsewhere
Read record →We must not, from this survival only, draw the conclusion that the Highlanders are more superstitious than many educated people south of the Highland line
Read record →Some Lapps advance to a kind of mystic Moderations, and the great sorcerers attain to Final Schools, and are Bachelors in Black Arts
Read record →One of the earliest references to Scotch second sight is quoted by Graham Dalyell from Higden's Polychronicon (i
Read record →Elspeth Reoch, in 1616, was tried as a witch for a simple piece of clairvoyance, or of charlatanism, as we may choose to believe
Read record →But Joan of Arc, the saviour of France, was burned for hearing voices, while St
Read record →Second Sight, in the days of James VI
Read record →Contemporary with Aubrey was the Rev
Read record →Kirk's wizards defended the lawfulness of their clairvoyance by the example of Elisha seeing Gehazi at a distance
Read record →Being in Edinburgh in 1700, he met Andrew Symson, a relation of his wife: they fell into discourse on the second sight, and he sent his little manuscript to Symson who published it in 1707
Read record →Frazer, in his tractate, first deals with the question of fact, of the hallucinations called second sight: 'That such representations are made to the eyes of men and women, is to me out of all doubt, and that affects follow answerable thereto, as little questi
Read record →John Macdonald saw a sea-captain all wet, who was drowned, 'about a year thereafter'
Read record →The coincidence of the hallucination with future events may arise from the fore-knowledge of the said angels, who, if evil, are deceptive, like Ahab's false prophets
Read record →Johnson's, and the cause of his voyage to the Hebrides
Read record →The seers are not malevolent impostors, and there are cases of second- sighted folk of birth and education, 'nor can a reasonable man believe that children, horses, and cows could be pre-engaged in a combination to persuade the world of the reality of the seco
Read record →Later than Martin we have the long work of Theophilus Insulanus, which contains many 'cases,' of more or less interest or absurdity
Read record →As we began by stating, it is a popular superstition among the learned that the belief in second sight has died out among the Highlanders
Read record →Sir Walter Scott on rarity of ghostly evidence
Read record →(for there are two) Scott addresses Sir Samuel Shepherd, remarking that the tract deals with 'perhaps the only subject of legal inquiry which has escaped being investigated by his skill, and illustrated by his genius'
Read record →To return to Scott; he remarks that believers in ghosts must be surprised 'to find how seldom in any country an allusion hath been made to such evidence in a court of justice'
Read record →Bernard was now at last called in; he admitted that Mirabel told him of the ghost, that they dug, and found some linen, but that he never saw any gold
Read record →Donald Farquharson, in Glendee, deposes that, in June, 1750, Alexander Macpherson sent for him, and said that he was much troubled by the ghost of the serjeant, who insisted that he should bury his bones, and should consult Farquharson
Read record →Macpherson declared that he had seen an apparition of a man in blue, who said, 'I am Serjeant Davies,' that he at first took this man for a brother of Donald Farquharson's, that he followed the man, or phantasm, to the door, where the spectre repeated its asse
Read record →So far it is plain that 'what the ghost said is not evidence,' and may even ruin a very fair case, for there can be little doubt as to who killed Serjeant Davies
Read record →Barwick, for her confinement, to the house of his uncle, Harrison, in Selby
Read record →He then mentioned the affair to his wife, who inferred that her sister had met with foul play
Read record →In October Briggs saw Harris, about twilight in the morning
Read record →But we are unable to discover the official records, or extracts of evidence from them
Read record →So much for the point of form; as to the matter, Maitre Chopin laughed at the bare idea of noisy spirits
Read record →In the autumn of that year, 1832, on the 21st of September, Sir Walter Scott died
Read record →A few years yet of his own battle, while the shadows of night and death were gathering about him, and they were re-united
Read record →Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind--The Belief in the Immortality of the Soul is the main inducement to credit its occasional re-appearance--The Philosophical Objections to the Apparition of an Abstract Spirit little understood
Read record →As, however, my information is only miscellaneous, and I make no pretensions, either to combat the systems of those by whom I am anticipated in consideration of the subject, or to erect any new one of my own, my purpose is, after a general account of Demonolog
Read record →ious to have recourse to his sagacious advice--or a bereaved husband earnestly desires again to behold the form of which the grave has deprived him for ever--or, to use a darker yet very common instance, the wretched man who has dipped his hand in his fellow-c
Read record →If we add, that such a vision may take place in the course of one of those lively dreams in which the patient, except in respect to the single subject of one strong impression, is, or seems, sensible of the real particulars of the scene around him, a state of
Read record →He was lying in the Tagus, when he was put to great anxiety and alarm by the following incident and its consequences
Read record →The anticipation of a dubious battle, with all the doubt and uncertainty of its event, and the conviction that it must involve his own fate and that of his country, was powerful enough to conjure up to the anxious eye of Brutus the spectre of his murdered frie
Read record →is said is the case with stringed instruments tuned to the same pitch, of which, when one is played, the chords of the others are supposed to vibrate in unison with the tones produced
Read record →Castilian cavalier's internal conviction that the rumour arose out of a mistake, the cause of which he explains from his own observation; whilst, at the same time, he does not venture to disown the miracle
Read record →The conversion of the sceptical gentleman of whom he speaks is highly illustrative of popular credulity carried away into enthusiasm, or into imposture, by the evidence of those around, and at once shows the imperfection of such a general testimony, and the ea
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