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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![They generally term this fecond-fight in Irifh Taithitaraughk, and fuch as have it Taifhatrin, © _ from Taifh, which is properly a fhadowy fubftance, or fuch naughty, and impercep- tible thing, as can only, or rather {carcely be difcerned by the eye; but not caught. by the hands: for which they affigned it to Bu- eles or Ghofts, fo that Taifhtar, is as much as one that converfes with ghofts or {pirits, or as they commonly call them, the Fairies or Fairy-Folks. Others call thefe men Phif- ficin, from Phis, which is properly fore-fight, or fore-knowledge. This is the fureft and cleareft account of fecond-fighted men that I can now find, and I have fet it down ful- ly, as if ] were tranfiently telling it, in your own prefence, being curious for nothing but the verity, fo far as I could. What you find improper or fuperfluous, you can beft com- : wees j65) 42 ci Thus far this letter, written in a familiar and homely ftile, which I have here fet down at length. Meg Mullack, and Brownie menti- oned in the end of it, are two ghofts, which (as it is conftantly reported) of old, haunted a family](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33279561_0297.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
