The chymist can draw subtile spirits, that will work upon one another
at some distance, viz. spirits of alkalies and acids, e.g. spirits
coelestial (sal armoniac and spirits of C. C. will work on each other
at half a yard distance, and smoke;) but the spirits above mentioned
are more subtile than they.
"Non amo te Sabati, nece possum dicere quare,
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te".
Fellow, I love thee not, I can't tell why,
But this, I'll tell thee, I could sooner die.
But if an astrologer had their nativities, he would find a great
disagreement in the schemes. These are hyper-physical opticks, and
drawn from the heavens.
Infants are very sensible of these irradiations of the eyes. In Spain,
France, &c. southern countries, the nurses and parents are very shy to
let people look upon their young children, for fear of fascination. In
Spain, they take it ill if one looks on a child, and make one say, God
bless it. They talk of "mal de ojos". We usually say, witches have
evil eyes.
AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF SECOND-
SIGHTED MEN IN SCOTLAND.
**In Two Letters from a learned friend of mine in Scotland.
I.
**To Mr. JOHN AUBREY, Fellow of the Royal Society.
SIR,
FOR your satisfaction I drew up some queries about the second-sighted
men, and having sent them to the northern parts of this kingdom, some
while ago, I received answers to them from two different hands,
whereof I am now to give you an account, viz.
Query 1.
If some few credible, well attested instances of such a knowledge as
is commonly called the second-sight, can be given ?
Answer.
Many instances of such knowledge can be given, by the confession of
such who are skilled in that faculty: for instances I refer you to
the fourth query.
Query 2.
If it consists in the discovery of present or past events only ? or if
it extend to such as are to come ?
Answer.
The second-sight relates only to things future, which will shortly
come to pass. Past events I learn nothing of it.
Query 3.
If the objects of this knowledge be sad and dismal events only; such
as deaths and murders ? or, joyful and prosperous also ?
Answer.
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