The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-SeersCrowe, Catherine
Religion
The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers
Crowe, Catherine
Ghosts; Parapsychology
When Lord Burghersh was giving theatrical parties at Florence, a lady
(Mrs. M——, whose presence was very important) excused herself one
evening, being in great alarm from having dreamed in the night that her
sister, in England, was dead, which proved to be the fact.
Mr. W——, a young man at Glasgow college, not long since dreamed that
his aunt in Russia was dead. He noted the date of his dream on the
window-shutter of his chamber. In a short time the news of the lady’s
death arrived. The dates, however, did not accord; but, on mentioning
the circumstance to a friend, he was reminded that the adherence of the
Russians to the old style reconciled the difference.
A man of business, in Glasgow, lately dreamed that he saw a coffin, on
which was inscribed the name of a friend, with the date of his death.
Some time afterward he was summoned to attend the funeral of that
person, who, at the time of the dream, was in good health, and he was
struck with surprise on seeing the plate of the coffin bearing the very
date he had seen in his dream.
A French gentleman, Monsieur de V——, dreamed, some years since, that
he saw a tomb, on which he read very distinctly, the following date—23d
June, 184—; there were, also, some initials, but so much effaced that
he could not make them out. He mentioned the circumstance to his wife;
and for some time, they could not help dreading the recurrence of the
ominous month; but, as year after year passed, and nothing happened,
they had ceased to think of it, when at last the symbol was explained.
On the 23d of June, 1846, their only daughter died at the age of
seventeen.
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