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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    nf FXG] OND WSL SH TT. 1p Waternifh, about fifteen’ years of age, faw fre- quently laft harveft, 1758, a corps in its winding- fheet, ftretched toa dale that ftood in a partition of the houfe fhe livedin, when all the family. were. in perfe& health : In the beginning of winter, imme- diately following, her Grand-Pappa fickened, but had fome intermiffions ; about the middle of De- cember he relapfed, fo that he was watched at nights her aunt, to attend the fick perfon that night, told her, 'as they were on their way to the » houfe, ihe was fure he would not outlive his diftemper, as fhehad feen a corps often ftretched to a Cale in their houfe: It happened as fhe foretold, and the dale. KXV. JoHN CampBety younger of Ardfignifh, in Ardnamorchuann, im the year 1729, returning home with Duncan Campbell his brother, fince de- ceafed, as they drew near the houfe, in a plain fur- to difcharge their fufees at a mark, obferved a young girl, whom they knew to be one of their do- meitics, crofling the plain, and having called her by name, fhe did not anfwer, but run into the thic- ket. As the two brothers had been fome days from home, and willing to know what happened in their abfence, the youngelt, John, purfued after, but could not find her. . Immediately, as they ar-