Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-11-17
SUPERSTITION.
Some Strange Stories ofthe supe,nat-
uraI in Modern Life.

utuI III WAOuCiu
The hereditary death summons of
the Ogilvies, the teatirgoi lie ghost
ly drum, was heard sounding through
the corridors Of Airlle Castle, in For.
tsrshire, just before the death Of The
ninth Earl Of Airlie, 4 900 miles away
in Colorado. No less grave and in.
te!ligent person than the late DR..
Norm an Mcleod, lends the weight of
his testimony to the occurrence Of
this manifestation some thirty years
ago, just before the death of the late
Earl's father and predecessor in the
title. Scotland, the land of fill and
flood, is full Of such1 superstitions as
this of the drumming bogie of the
O5ilvies. The approaching death of
a Bruce is ~ounced by the spectre
OF woman in white, which appears
to he doomed scion of that ancient
and once royal house. The late
Earl Of Elgin, man Of eminently
sound and robust character, undonbt.
edly believed himself to have been
warned in this way, and was pro.
founliy affected by the vieion. The
same thing is stated of his brother,
General Robert Bruce, who accompa-
MED the Prince of Wales on his visit
to this country in 1880.
Nor are such omens confined 10
Scotland. The white woman of the
Hohenzollerns went shrieking through
the Schloss at Berlin on the eve Of
the Heath Of the practical and unbe.
lievilg Frederick the Great, and for
many a generation rast the Spirit of
the Stanleys has been seen and heard
weeping and bemoaning herself be.
fore the death of any person of dis.
1inction belonging to that family"
A like apparition haunts the castle Of
one Of the O'Neills Of Ireland-in the
shape OF fair, pale woman, clad in
the ancien: llish dress, and with
ruddy. golden, dishevelled hair, the
injured ghost of the daughter Of the
people OF whom the chief, who had
married her, ridded himself by drown
ing her in his castle moat. The Ben
edictine nun OF 1.-The Middletons; the
twin owls which perch at midnight
on the battlement of Wardonr Castle
foreteLing the death Of an Arundel
Of Wardour; the White breasted bird
which autters about the death-beds of
the oxenhams Of fDevonshire; the
mystic sturgeon which forces itself up
the current the Trent TO CAL ore
Enown world, aud TIE isionary trunk
OF an unreal oak which floats at dawn '
in the lake of Brereton Hall when
Brereten-is about to die-these are
all familiar to the lovers Of the might
side Of nature" That such supersti.
tions can grow in other soil than that
of ancient institutions, and the hered.
itary pride of race, we all know.
The tale of the double reflection seen
by Abraham.tL .tLincoln in his mirror.
and Of the ghostly warning which he
took from that phenomenon, is fami.
liar.
But one Of the strangest and most
inexplicable stories of the supernatu.
raj in modern life, is that Of the mys.
terry Of Glamis. Glamis Castle, which
stands, like, Airlie Castle, in Forfar-
shire, is one of the stateliest, end, at
The same time one of the weirdest
and most imposing homes Of the Scot.
tish nobility, 1t is Of such vast e1..
tent that when the frat Pretender
James III went there, in Ills, to
join the fifth Esrl of Strathmore, who
marched thence to die under the
standard Of the Stuarts at Sheriff.
muir, eighty bedrooms were prepared
for the Prince and his retinue. The
castle has been so modernized in parts
as to make it superb residence, but
1t retains most Of its early feudal fea.
lures, and ia full of strange passage.
ways, hidden chambers, and stairs
that lead one knows not whittier.
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