{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce19.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce19.htm","text":"9. As Birds and Bea\u0192ts, who\u0192e Bodies are much u\u0192ed to the Change of the frie and open Air, for\u0192ee Storms; \u0192o tho\u0192e invi\u0192ible People are more \u0192agacious to under\u0192tand by the Books of Nature Things to come, than wee, who are pe\u0192tered with the gro\u0192\u0192er Dregs of all elementary Mixtures, and have our purer Spirits choaked by them. The Deer \u0192cents out a Man and Powder (tho a late Invention) at a great Di\u0192tance; a hungry Hunter, Bread; and the Raven, a Carrion: Ther Brains, being long clarified by the high and \u0192ubtil Air, will ob\u0192erve a very \u0192mall Change in a Trice. Thus a Man of the Second Sight, perceaving the Operations of the\u0192e foreca\u0192ting invi\u0192ible People among us, (indulged thorow a \u0192tupendious Providence to give Warnings of \u0192ome remarkable Events, either in the Air, Earth, or Waters,) told he \u0192aw a Winding-\u0192hroud creeping on a walking healthful Per\u0192ons Legs till it come to the Knee; and afterwards it came up to the Midle, then to the Shoulders, and at la\u0192t over the Head, which was vi\u0192ible to\nno\nno other Per\u0192one. And by ob\u0192erving the Spaces of Time betwixt the \u0192everall Stages, he ea\u0192ily gue\u0192\u0192ed how long the Man was to live who wore the Shroud; for when it approached his Head, he told that \u0192uch a Per\u0192on was ripe for the Grave.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 9","type":"page"}