Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor.
- Date:
- 1791
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 393 ] i ing, it gave him fome mieafiuefs ; but finding it was only a dream, he went to fleep again, when he dreamed the fame thing. Then he got up, put on his night-gown, went to the apartment of an old iady, and told her his dream with great agitation of mind. She fmiled at him, and faid, fhe wondered that a gentleman of his underilanding Ihould be fo troubled about a dream, and bid him go to bed again. He did fo ; fell afleep, and dreamed the third time that his filler was murdered. He tlien got up and dreffed himfelf with all fpeed, hafiened to his fifter’s honfe, where he found her cut and mangled in a barbarous manner, by her moll cruel hufband, a rank papill : it feems they had been difputing about religion. She jufi: lived to fpeak a few words to her bro- ther, and then expired of her wounds ; and the bate villain was quickly apprehended, tried, and hanged for the fame. Now if this gentleman had not been fo flow to believe the Divine warning, and had haften- ed to his filler’s relief at the firft dream, in all probability he had prevented the cruel murder, and faved two lives. Another Murder dlfcovered by a Dream* In the fecond year of the reign of King James 1. one Anne Waters carrying on certain intrigues with a young man in the neighoour^ hood.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0305.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
