Sentence:  A country where such traditions could pass current, and in which more unfortunate creatures, perhaps, passed to death through the torturing fire for the imaginary crime of witchcraft under laws framed and administered in the spirit of Moloch himself, then suffered on the same accursed account in any region of similar extent, was a soil well calculated to cherish the <WSD>"Taghairm</WSD>" and "Second Sight". ... Those who slept on the skin of the sacrificial lamb at the temple of w 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A method of divination involving sewing a person into the hide of a freshly-killed ox which was then placed beside a waterfall or other desolate place, to enable the person to foresee the outcome of an impending battle; the oracle of the hide.