The borderlands of insanity, and other allied papers : Being essays from the Quarterly and Edinburgh reviews / By Andrew Wynter.

  • Andrew Wynter
Date:
1875
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Credit: The borderlands of insanity, and other allied papers : Being essays from the Quarterly and Edinburgh reviews / By Andrew Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    desires to give to her votaries; and on this occasion the dead Mother Anne was reported by the whirlers to have commu- nicated to them that she had sent two angels to inform them that a tribe of Indians had been around them for a couple of days, and wanted the brothers and sisters to take them in. They were outside the building, looking in at the windows. I shall never forget [says Macdonald] how I looked round the windows, expecting to see the yellow faces when this announce- ment was made; but I believe some of the old folk bit their lips and smiled. It caused no alarm to the rest; but the first elder exhorted his brethren to take in the poor spirits, and assist them to get salvation. He afterwards repeated more of what the angels had said,—viz., that the Indians were a savage tribe, who had all died before Columbus discovered America, and