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Updated: May 12, 2025
But Scheffer shows that the Lapp experts try, voluntarily, to see sights, whereas, except when wrapped in a bull's hide of old, or cowering in a boiler at the present day, the Highland second-sighted man lets his visions come to him spontaneously and uninvoked.
He recommended him as a person skilful in the arts of the harper and the senachie, and by no means contemptible in the quality of a second-sighted person or seer.
Kirk died, or, as local tradition avers, was carried away to fairyland. Mr. Kirk has none of the Presbyterian abhorrence of fairies and fauns, though, like the accusers of the Orkney witches, he believes that 'phairie control' inspires the second-sighted men, who see them eat at funerals.
The savage with the long name was a Christian catechumen, and yet he stood to it that he had seen a sorcerer disappear before his very eyes, like the second-sighted Highlander in Kirk's Secret Commonwealth . 'His neibours often perceaved this man to disappear at a certane place, and about one hour after to become visible. It would be more satisfactory if the Father had seen these things himself, like Mrs.
They have second-sighted men, who obtain status 'by relating an extraordinary dream, the details of which are declared to have been borne out subsequently by some unforeseen event, as, for instance, a sudden death or accident. They have to produce fresh evidential dreams from time to time. They see phantasms of the dead, and coincidental hallucinations. All this is as we should expect it to be.
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