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Barrett, and a friend, on two occasions, could detect no method of imposture, and, as the farmer did not believe that his children, sorely distressed by the loss of their mother, would play such tricks, at such a time, even if they could, the mystery remains u
Read record →The agency was mendacious, as usual, for Porphyry complains that the 'spirits' were always as deceitful as the Cock Lane ghost, feigning to be gods, heroes, or the souls of the dead
Read record →Beautiful instances of common-sense explanations, occur in two stories of the last century, the St
Read record →The Amiens case (1746) is reported and attested by Father Charles Louis Richard, Professor in Theology, a Dominican friar
Read record →In a tale like this, which is only one out of a vast number, exactly analogous, Common-sense is ill-advised in simply alleging imposture, so long maintained, so motiveless, and, on the whole, so very difficult to execute
Read record →The question of coincidental Hallucinations
Read record →In popular phrase, however, the two last kinds of apparitions are called 'ghosts,' or 'wraiths,' and the popular tendency is to think of these, and of these alone, when 'apparitions' are mentioned
Read record →{183} Examples of the first sort of apparitions taken by the judgment to be real, are common in madness, in the intemperate, and in ghost stories
Read record →tral terminus' is abandoned to religious excitement, to remorse, to grief, to anxiety, to an apprehension of secret enemies, nor even to a habit of being hallucinated, though, like Nicolai, he knows that his visionary friends are unreal
Read record →Hibbert dedicated his book, in 1825, to Sir Walter Scott, of Abbotsford, Bart., President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Read record →This young lady, in bed, saw a light, then a hallucination which called itself her mother
Read record →The coincidental hallucinations are laid to the door of 'telepathy,' to 'a telepathic impact from the mind of an absent agent,' who is dying, or in some other state of rare or exciting experience, perhaps being married, as in Col
Read record →by the spectre, then there was no telepathic hallucination, but an actual being of an awful kind was in Smailholm Tower
Read record →The best and most valid proof that an abnormal being is actually present was that devised by the ghost of Sir Richard of Coldinghame in the ballad, and by the Beresford ghost, who threw a heavy curtain over the bed-pole
Read record →What we need, to prove a ghost, and disprove an exclusively telepathic theory, is a ghost who is not only seen, heard, or even touched, but a ghost who produces some change in physical objects
Read record →These rare facts have not escaped a ghost-hunter so intelligent as Mrs
Read record →Let us examine a few instances of the ghost who visibly moves material objects
Read record →He also sees the hill-pony ridden by Mr
Read record →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
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