ay, that this Sight can be no Quality of the Air nor of the Eyes becaus, 1. ome, at firt Thought, might conjecture to be by the Refraction of a Cloud or Mit, as in the Parelij, (the whole Air and every Drop of Water being a Mirrour to returne the Species of Things, were our viive Faculty harpe enough to apprehend them,) or a naturall Reflexion, from the ame Reaons that an Echo can be redoubled by Airt yet it were more faable ( (?) fafable in original-JBH) to impute this Second Sight to a Quality infued into the Eye by ane Unction: for Witchies have a leepie Oyntment, that, when applyed, troubles their Fantaies, advancing it to have unuuall Figures and Shapes repreented to it, as if it were a Fit of Fanaticim, Hypocondriack Melancholly, or Poeion of ome ininuating Spirit, raiing the Soul beyond its common Strain, if the palpable Intances and Realities een, and innocently objected to the Senes did not diprove it, make the Matter a palpable Verity, and no Deception yet ince this Sight can be betowed without Oyntment, or dangerous Compact, the Qualification is not of o bad an Originall. The Maid my Lord mentions, who aw her Image till before her, uteth with the CO-WALKER named in my Account which tho THO my Collections were written long before I aw My Lord of Tarbett's, yet I am glad that his decriptions and mine correpond o nearly. A VEHEMENT Deyre to attain this Airt is very helpfull to the Inquyrer and the Species of ane Abent Friend, which appears to the Seers, as clearly as if he had ent his lively Picture to preent it elfe before him, is no phantatick Shaddow of a ick Apprehenion, but a reality, and a Meinger, coming for unknown Reaons, not from the originall Similitude of it elfe, but from a more wift and pragmantick People, which recreat them elves in offering ecret Intelligence to Men, tho generally they are unacquainted with that Kind of Correpondence, as if they had lived in a different element from them.ĥ. To the Siths, (or People at Ret, and, in repect of us, in Peace,) before the natural Period of their Lyfe expyre, do frequently appear to them.Ĥ. This Sight is not criminal, ince a Man can come by it unawares, and without his Conent but it is certaine he ie more fatall and fearfull Things than he do gladome.ģ. But a few Women are endued with this Sight in repect of Men, and their Predictions not o certane.Ģ. My LORD, after narrow Inquiition, hath delivered many true and remarkable oberves on this Subject yet to encourage a further Scrutiny, I crave leave to ay, Sacred Texts Legends & Sagas Celtic Index Previous Next The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Conclusions
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