Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic ScienceTuttle, Hudson
Religion
Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science
Tuttle, Hudson
Parapsychology
OMENS.--Almost every one has good and had omens, and although they may
think that they have entirely outgrown such superstition, they will find
that there yet lingers more or less of the feeling from education or
heredity. They do not believe that seeing the moon over the left
shoulder indicates bad luck, and over the right good fortune, yet they
would prefer to see it over the right. They do not think Friday a more
unlucky day than the other six, yet avoid commencing important business
on that day. There are a great number of omens and signs, many of them
peculiar to the individual; others world-wide, and held from remote
antiquity. Of these it may be said that while of themselves these signs
and omens have no relation to the events they presage, if we suppose a
person to accept a certain omen as foreshadowing a certain event, a
superior being foreknowing that event and desiring to impress it on the
mind of such person, might use the sign to convey the warning. To
further illustrate: There may be no connection between seeing the moon
over one’s right shoulder and a fortunate event in store; but a superior
being, foreseeing that event, may so influence our minds as to make us
catch a glimpse of the crescent on the right.
Mrs. Bancroft, a daughter-in-law of the great historian, has described
an uncanny circumstance which happened at a wedding in 1863, where the
wives of Major Thos. Y. Brent and Capt. Eugene Barnes, of the C. S. A.
met, each wearing her bridal dress. While dressing for the occasion,
Mrs. Brent’s companion discovered a blood spot upon the dress of the
Major’s wife, which could not be accounted for, and somewhat excitedly
exclaimed: “It is a bad omen!” Two days after, Mrs. Brent experienced a
severe pain in the region of her heart, although at the time in the best
of health. This occurred at the birth-place of her husband. Two days
later she heard that while storming a Federal fortification, her husband
was killed on July 4th, 1863, as far as she could learn at the identical
time that she experienced the heart-pain. The Major was shot in the
breast by a Minie ball and instantly killed. Another fact occurred at
the time of finding the blood spot, and that was Mrs. Thomas Bright
addressing the two ladies as “war widows.” She believes in omens, and
believes that these facts pointed to the death of the lady’s husband,
which occurred so soon after.
A DREAM REALIZED.--The Mobile _Register_ published the following, under
the title of “A Dream Realized,” which should be regarded as a trance,
in which state the transcendent knowledge was given by some superior
intelligence:
“A man named Bronson, who was an agent for a seed house, was travelling
through Tennessee making collections. One night, after he had finished
his business in Chattanooga, he made ready for a horseback ride of
fifteen or twenty miles the next day. Upon retiring to his room for the
night he sat down to smoke a cigar.
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