[2] The Testimony of Tradition, p. 75.
[3] In Father Macdonald’s book on Moidart.
[4] A much odder case is reported. Two young men photographed a reach of a river. In the photograph, when printed, was visible the dead body of a woman floating on the stream. The water was dragged. Nothing was found; but two or three days later a girl drowned herself in the pool! As the Reports of the Psychical Society sometimes say, “no confirmation has been obtained;” but this is a pleasing instance of the Reflex, and of second sight in a photographic camera.
[5] It is also published in Mrs. Graham Tomson’s Border Ballads (Walter Scott).
[7] Many instances may be read of in a little anonymous work, Obeah. The scene is Hayti.
[9] Proc. S. P. R., July 1891, February 1892.
[10] As far as the author has watched séances personally, they have ended in nothing but “giggling and making giggle.”
[11] Some séances were held at —— College, Oxford, about 1875. The performers were all athletic undergraduates. The breath of chill air was always felt “before anything happened,” and, when the out-college men had gone, the owner of the rooms, in his bed-chamber, was disturbed by the racket which continued in the sitting-room. But I know not if he had sported his oak!
[12] An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, by Increase Mather. Boston, 1684; London, Reeves & Turner, 1890, pp. 101-111.
[13] Diseases of the Nervous System, iii. 249. London, 1890.
[14] Proc. S. P. R., xix. 160-173.
[15] Op. cit., pp. 173-189.
[16] Memoirs of the Wesley Family, by Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S. London, 1823, pp. 161-200.
[17] Letter to Terry, April 30. Lockhart, v. 309.
[18] Scott to Terry, May 16.
[19] Susannah Wesley to Samuel Wesley, March 27, 1717.
[20] Op. cit., p. 193.
[21] Op. cit., p. 194.
[23] Memoirs of the Wesley Family, p. 198.
[24] Edinburgh: Mossman, 1696. There is a London reprint, of which I have a copy. The pamphlet is republished in Mr. Stevenson’s edition of Sinclair’s Satan’s Invisible World Discovered, 1685-1871, Appendix, p. xix.
[25] Compare similar phenomena in Obeah, and in Peruvian example, note (c), p. 82.
[26] Glanvil’s version is given in Sinclair’s Satan’s Invisible World.
[29] The “earth-houses” in Scotland and the isles, which seem to have been inhabited at an early period, can seldom be called hills or mounds; being built for purposes of concealment, they are usually almost on a level with the surrounding land. The Fairy hills, on the other hand, are higher and much more notable, and were probably sepulchral. This, at least, is the impression left on me by Mr. MacRitchie’s book, The Underground Life. (Privately printed. Edinburgh, 1892.)
[32] The Death-candle is called Druig.
[36] Thus in the Manuscript, which is only a Transcript of Mr. Kirk’s Original. Perhaps M‘Intyre?
[37] The original Transcriber has added: “See the Rest in a little Manuscript belonging to Coline Kirk,” probably the author’s son of that name.—A.L.
[38] The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de Leon, ch. cxviii.
[39] Mr. Hoole’s account, Memoirs of the Wesleys, p. 91.
[40] The letters to Pepys are quoted from his Correspondence, published as Vol. X. of his Diary (New York, 1885).