The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairiesKirk, Robert
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The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Kirk, Robert
Clairvoyance; Fairies; Parapsychology
frequently in swooning Fits, they brought him into the Hall, and set
him in the verie Chair, and in the verie Posture that the Seer had
prophesied. But the Man did not die, though he recovered with great
Difficulty.
AMONG the Accounts given me by Sir Normand M‘clud, there was one
worth of special Notice, which was thus. There [was] a Gentleman in
the Isle of Harris, who was always seen by the Seers with ane Arrow
in his Thigh. Such in the Isle who thought those prognostications
infalliable, did not doubt but he would be shot in the Thigh before
he died. Sir Normand told me that he heard it the Subject of their
Discourse for many Years. At last he died without any such Accident.
Sir Normand was at his Buriall, at St Clement’s Church in the Harris.
At the same Time, the Corps of another Gentleman was brought to be
buried in the same verie Church. The Friends on either Side came to
debate who should first enter the Church, and in a Trice from Words
they came to Blows. One of the Number (who was arm’d with Bow and
Arrows) let one fly among them. (Now everie Familie in that Isle have
their Buriall-place in the Church in Stone Chests, and the Bodies
are carried in open Biers to the Buriall-place.) Sir Normand having
appeased the Tumult, one of the Arrows was found shot in the dead
Man’s Thigh. To this Sir Normand was a Witness.
IN the Account which Mr Daniel Morison, Parson in the Lewis, gave
me, there was one, tho it be hetergeneous from the subject, yet it
may [be] worth your Notice. It was of a young Woman in his Parish,
who was mightily frightned by seeing her own Image still before her,
alwayes when she came to the open Air; the Back of the Image being
alwayes to her, so that it was not a reflection as in a Mirrour, but
the Species of such a Body as her own, and in a very like Habit,
which appeared to herself continually before her. The Parson keept
her a long whyle with him, but had no Remedy of her Evill, which
troubled her exceidingly. I was told afterwards, that when she was
four or fyve Years elder she saw it not.
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