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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    SECOND: S.UGH T. 1s | aad as they were fo.employed, one of the work- men who had been a Seer, appeared to faint away, upon which he- called for a drink of cold water ; which having got, he. foon recovered ; and being afked by my informer, if he had feen any thing to bring on that alteration? Said he had feen a corps fpot where it lay; however the.work went on, and the faid /Murdsch continued therein for five years : About a: year after Murdoch left it, Evan’s tather being fick for fome time, requeited his fen to rear up that apartment for him, as being more retired from noife; which was.accordingly done; and ina quarter of a year thereafter, expired in my infor- mer’s arms; who thereupon remembered it was in fix years before it was accomplifhed, XK. The fame: gentleman. relates, that Mary Niawn) Jainn, an old» woman,. travelling from Warkafaig to Idrikill, faw, with broad day- light, a company of men. meeting her on the fhore of Warkafaig, carrying a. corps; among whom fhe diftinguithed Foh2 MacQueen, Duncan MacSween, and my infermer, with their feveral flations, and not only fo,. but defcribed t].e tartan plaid that o- verlaid the coffin, and the part it came from: All which was accomplifhed fix days thereafter, a girl being drowned accedentally at Idrikill, and was car- ried ta: cher interment, ‘by the fame thore, the. per- } fons iy B2