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Precognition

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  • The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ...  : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.
  • The Highland Youth : this youth, whose miraculous powers of double sight have surprised all who have visited him. Exhibits every day from twelve to half-past five, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...
  • The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ...  : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.
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    Experimentelle Studien auf dem Gebiete der Gedankenübertragung und des sogenannten Hellsehens / von Charles Richet ; autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von Albert Freiherrn von Schrenck-Notzing.

    Richet, Charles, 1850-1935. | Date: 1891
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    The Highland Youth : this youth, whose miraculous powers of double sight have surprised all who have visited him. Exhibits every day from twelve to half-past five, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...

    | Date: [1832]
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    A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod].

    Macleod, Donald, 1729?-1781. | Date: 1763
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    The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ... : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.

    | Date: [1832?]
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    Second sight : its history and origins / by Lewis Spence.

    Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955. | Date: 1951
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