Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-18
SECOND SIGHT.
a Gift which. In some Parts of scot
land. is stiil Believed To Exist

t.
land. is stiiI Believed 10 Exist
According to a theory ia wears zone
by was much credited in Scotland. the
gift of second sight is conveyed to some
person by means of dreams. Ii is as-
serted that dreams are used as vehi-
Gle of intercourse between the visible
and unseen world, whereby an intima-
ton is made not only of what is actualv
taking place at long distance off, bur
of coming events. Indeed, this belief
is a deep-rooted one; and, it must be
acknowledged, many curious instances
are on record illustrative of its truth.
evidence which, as Sir Walter Scott
affirms, neither Bacon, Boyle, nor jon
son could resist. Mr.. Henderson has
collected together some striking cases,
two of which we quote: A lady of Tru-
70 dreamed, the night before a b.ating
party, that the boat was upset and that
She herself was drowned. She there
fore determined not to join it, and sent
an excnse. The party returned safely
however, and the lady told friend
what had passed, and describing where
she had dreamed the body would have
been found, ceased to think of the
matter. A month or two later the lady
had occasion to cross the Truro river
at King Harry's passage, the boat was
upset, she was drowned, and they
sought for the body in vain. Then the
! friend to whom she had told her dream
came forward. and pointed to the spot
marked out in the dream as the bOdy's
resting place, and there it was found.
| The second instance, which occurred
in 184S, and was narrated in the paper
of that day, is as follows: Mr.. Smith
gardener to Sir Clifford Constable, was
supposed to have fallen into the Tees,
his hat and stick having been found
near the water side, and the river was
dragged for some time without success.
4 person named Awde, from Little
Newsham, then dreamed that Smith
was lying under the ledge Of certain
rock about three hundred yards below
| Whorlton bridge, and that his right
arm was broken. The dream so affect
ed this man that he got up early and
| set out at once to search the river, and
on the first trial ne made with the boat,
he drew up the body Of a man and
found the right arm actually broken.
! There are numerous cases of this kind
many of which it has been found diff
cult to explain; but the question is one
which has already engaged the atten-
ton of the psychological student In
years gone by it was supposed that
! fairies in their nocturnal rambles visit
ed sleeping mortals, and suggested to
them the subject of their dreams. an
allusion to which.Shakespeare makes in
"Romeo and Juliet" TACT j., scene A.,
where Romeo says Il dreamed a
dream tonight" whereupon Mercutio
replies:
| O. then l see Queen Nab has heen with youl
| She is the fairies midwife, and she comes
| In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the foretnger of an alderman
| One way, as we have shown in preyi-
GUS paper, whereby they terrified sleep
| ing mortals was by nightmare. In
"Cymbeline, too TACT IL, scene y, I'm
ogen, on retiring to rest says:
Sleep hath seized me wholly
To your protection ] commend me gods.
From fairies and the temters Of the night
Guard me, beseech ye
GeRAemdnS NqQisine.