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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Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    having brought with her.a.woman fervant, famous for the. Second Sight,.as they came. to the corn- yard, (which.is.clofe.to the high-way),. the fervant - defired her to keep.to.a fide, as there was a {mall | gathering, with a corps on a. bier pafling by; fhe ~ replied that fhe apprehended no. danger, as fhe had no faith-in fuch predi¢tions; the Scer faid, what fhe had told would foon come to pafs; and that her mother-and feveral others fhe named, would follow the bier, with diitinguifhing marks of the tartan plaid that lay over the corps. Ina few days there- after, a young man of the neighbourhood was downed accidentally ; the day before the interment, his body was ¢arried clofe to the corn-yard, follow- ed by the perfons foretold, and attended with all the circumftances above related. IX.Caprain MacDonatp of Cafletown, (allow- ed by all his acquaintance to be a perfon of con- fummate integrity), informed me, That a Kxoydart- man (being on board of a veffel at anchor in the Sound of the ifland Oran/ay), went under night outof the cabbin to deck, and being miffed by his com- pany, fome of them went to ca!] him down; but not finding him, concluded he had dropt from the fhip’s fide; when day came on, they got a Jong line furnifhed with hooks, (from a tenant’s houfe clofe by the fhore), which having calt from the fhip’s fide, fome of the hooks got hold of his cloaths, fo that they got the corps taken up. The owner of ’ the