The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell : $b a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight, with their future contingencies of fortune
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The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell : $b a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight, with their future contingencies of fortune
Campbell, Duncan, 1680?-1730; Deaf people -- Great Britain -- Biography; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Prophets -- Great Britain -- Biography
Several persons, living in a certain family, told the author that they
had frequently seen two men standing at a gentle-woman's left hand, who
was their master's daughter; they told the men's names, and being her
equals, it was not doubted but she would be married to one of them; and
perhaps to the other after the death of the first. Some time after a
third man appeared, who seemed always to stand nearest to her of the
three, but the seers did not know him, though they could describe him
exactly; and within some months after, this man who was seen last,
actually came to the house, and fully answered the description given of
him by those who never saw him but in a vision; and he married the woman
shortly after. They live in the Isle of Skye, and both themselves and
others confirmed the truth of this instance when the author saw them.
Archibald Macdonald, of the parish of St. Mary's, in the Isle of Skye,
being reputed famous in his skill of foretelling things to come, by the
second-sight, happening to be in the village Knockow one night, and
before supper, told the family that he had just then seen the strangest
thing he ever saw in his life, viz., a man with an ugly long cap, always
shaking his head; but that the strangest of all was a little kind of a
harp which he had, with four strings only, and that it had two hart's
horns fixed in the front of it. All that heard this odd vision fell a
laughing at Archibald, telling him that he was dreaming, or had not his
wits about him, since he pretended to see a thing which had no being,
and was not so much as heard of in any part of the world. All this could
not alter Archibald's opinion, who told them that they must excuse him
if he laughed at them after the accomplishment of the vision. Archibald
returned to his own house, and within three or four days after, a man
with a cap, harp, &c., came to the house, and the harp, strings, horns,
and cap, answered the description of them at first view, and he shook
his head when he played; for he had two bells fixed to his cap. This
harper was a poor man, who made himself a buffoon for his bread, and was
never seen before in those parts, and at the time of the prediction he
was in the Isle of Barray, which is about twenty leagues distant from
that part of Skye. This relation is vouched by Mr. Daniel Martin, and
all his family, and such as were then present; and they live in the
village where this happened.
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