Highland Second Sight
THE LIBRARY IHH UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ri/^ \y I' HIGHLAND SECOND-SIGHT. HIGHLAND SECOND-SIGHT WITH PROPHECIES OF COINNEACH ODHAR AND THE SEER OF PETTY AND Numerous other Examples from the Writings of Aubrey, Martin, Theophilus Insulanus, the Rev. John Fraser, Dean of Argyle and the Isles, Rev. Dr Kennedy of Dingwall, AND others. Introductory Study by Rev. Wm. MORRISON, M.A., F.S.A. Edited by NORMAN MACRAE. ;( yGEedoE SouTER, Dingwall. Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 with funding from University of Britisii Columbia Library http://www.archive.org/details/highlandsecondsiOOmacr PREFATORY NOTE. In the Folk-Lore of the Scottish Highlanders there is no chapter more extraordinary or interesting in its way than that which deals with the stories of the Second-Sight—a "gift," notwithstanding the ridicule of the unbelieving, that to the present day, in one or other of its manifestations, is not uncommon among the Highland people. There is no doubt that much of the merely traditional has gathered around the subject, but there still remains so considerable a body of well-authenticated facts that they deserve the closest study of Folk-Lorist and Psycholo- gist alike. As facts, they certainly challenge enquiry and invite elucidation. It is hoped that the following pages will, therefore, prove as helpful to the serious student as, it is believed, they will be welcome to the general reader—not in the light of the superstitious or the merely curious, but as a subject of particular interest in view of present-day res3arch in matters psychological. The introductory study from the pen of the Kev.
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