[1] Note (_a_), p. 81.
[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).
[6] Note (_b_), p. 81.
[7] Many instances may be read of in a little anonymous work,
_Obeah_. The scene is Hayti.
[8] Note (_c_), p. 82.
[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.
[22] Note (_d_), p. 83.
[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_.
[27] Note (_e_), p. 85.
[28] Note (_f_), p. 86.
[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.)
[30] Note (_a_), p. 86.
[31] Note (_b_), p. 87.
[32] The _Death-candle_ is called DRUIG.
[33] Note (_c_), p. 87.
[34] Note (_d_), p. 88.
[35] Note (_e_), p. 88.
[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,
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