The compleat wizzard; being a collection of authentic and entertaining narratives of the real existence and appearance of ghosts, demons, and spectres: together with several wonderful instances of the effects of witchcraft, etc. To which is prefixed; an account of haunted houses.

Date:
1770
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat wizzard; being a collection of authentic and entertaining narratives of the real existence and appearance of ghosts, demons, and spectres: together with several wonderful instances of the effects of witchcraft, etc. To which is prefixed; an account of haunted houses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3°3 1 by, tho’ they did not fee them, elfe fome of €S them would be quickly thrown into the midft cc of it. * - . v / “ They generally term this Second-Sight inlriCh, “ Tailhitaranghk, and fuch as have it Tailhai- ‘ trin, from Taifh, which properly is a lhadowy 1 fubftance, or fuch naughty and imperceptible thing, as can only, or rather fcarcely be dif- 1 cerned by the eye, but not caught by the “ hands s for which reafon they affigned it to bug]is 01 gnofts; fo that Xailhtar, is as much “ as one that converfes with ghofts or fpirits, «r “ as they commonly call them, the fairies or “ fairy f°ii<;s- Others call thefe men Phifichin, “ from Phis, which is properly Fore-fight, or “ Fore-knowledge. This is the fureft and clear- “ eft account of fecond-fighted men, that I can “ now find, in which I have been curious in “ nothing but the verity, fo far as I could. Yours, &c, 1 fhall conclude thefe extradts from Mr. Au¬ brey, with a relation he has taken from the A- thenian Mercury ; which is as follows. — Two peiiOns, ladies of quality (both not long fince deceafed) were intimate acquaintance, and lov’d each other entirely. It fo tell out, that one of them feh fick or the imail-pox, and dehred mightily to iee the other, who would not come, fear-