Apparitions; Dreams; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Parapsychology -- Early works to 1900
There was a _promise_ by Lord Tyrone to Lady Beresford of a visitation
from the tomb. Even when the phantom appeared to her in the night, the
lady expressed her diffidence in its reality, but it placed a mark upon
her wrist, and adjusted her bed-curtains in some supernatural fashion,
and even wrote something in her pocket-book: so that with earnestness
she related to her husband in the morning this impressive vision; and it
was not long ere missives came, which by announcing the death of Lord
Tyrone proved the spectre prophetic.
The tragedian John Palmer died on the stage at Liverpool. At the same
hour and minute, a shopman in London, sleeping under a counter, saw
distinctly his shade glide through the shop, open the door, and pop into
the street. This, an hour or two after, he mentioned very coolly, as if
Mr. Palmer himself had been there.
Cardan saw, on the ring-finger of his right hand, the mark of a bloody
sword, and heard at the same time a voice which bade him go directly to
Milan. The redness progressively increased until midnight: the mark then
faded gradually, and disappeared. At that midnight hour his son was
beheaded at Milan.
It was told by Knowles, the governor of Lord Roscommon when a boy, that
young Wentworth Dillon was one day seized with a mood of the wildest
eccentricity, contrary to his usual disposition. On a sudden he
exclaimed, “My father is dead!” And soon after missives came from
Ireland to announce the fact.
The father of Doctor Blomberg, clerk of the closet to George IV., was
captain in an army serving in America. We are told by Doctor Rudge, that
six officers, three hundred miles from his position, were visited after
dinner by this modern Banquo, who sat down in a vacant chair. One said
to him, “Blomberg, are you mad?” He rose in silence, and slowly glided
out at the door. He was slain on that day and hour.
In the “Diary of a Physician” (an embellished record of facts), we read
the story of the spectre-smitten Mr. M——, whose leisure hours were
passed in the perusal of legends of diablerie and witchcraft. One
evening, when his brain was excited by champagne, he returned to his
rooms, and saw a dear friend in his chair; and this friend had died
suddenly, and was at that moment _laid out_ in his chamber;—a
combination of horrors so unexpected and intense, that monomania was the
result.
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