{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce25.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce25.htm","text":"15. AMONG other In\u0192tances of undoubted Verity, proving in the\u0192e the Being of \u0192uch aerial People, or Species of Creatures not vulgarly known, I add the \u0192ub\u0192equent Relations, \u0192ome whereof I have from my Acquaintance with the Actors and Patients, and the Re\u0192t from the Eye-witne\u0192\u0192es to the Matter of Fact. The fir\u0192t whereof \u0192hall be of the Woman taken out of her Child-bed, and having a lingring Image of her \u0192ub\u0192tituted Bodie in her Roome, which Re\u0192emblance decay'd, dy'd, and was bur'd. But the Per\u0192on \u0192tollen returning to her Hu\u0192band after two Years Space, he being convinced by many undenyable Tokens that \u0192he\nwas\nwas his former Wyfe, admitted her Home, and had diver\u0192e Children by her. Among other Reports \u0192he gave her Hu\u0192band, this was one: That \u0192he perceived litle what they did in the \u0192pacious Hou\u0192e \u0192he lodg'd in, untill \u0192he anointed one of her Eyes with a certain Unction that was by her; which they perceaving to have acqainted her with their Actions, they fain'd her blind of that Eye with a Puff of their Breath. She found the Place full of Light, without any Fountain or Lamp from whence it did \u0192pring. This Per\u0192on lived in the Countrey nixt to that of my la\u0192t Re\u0192idence, and might furni\u0192h Matter of Di\u0192pute among\u0192t Ca\u0192ui\u0192ts, whither if her Hu\u0192band had been mary'd in the Interim of her two Years Ab\u0192ence, he was oblidged to divor\u0192e from the \u0192econd Spou\u0192e at the Return of the fir\u0192t. There is ane Airt, appearingly without Super\u0192tition, for recovering of \u0192uch as are \u0192tolen, but think it \u0192uperfluous to in\u0192ert it.\nI SAW a Woman of fourtie Years of Age, and examined her (having another Clergie Man in my Companie) about a Report that pa\u0192t of\nher\nher long fa\u0192ting, [her Name is not intyre.] 1 It was told by them of the Hou\u0192e, as well as her \u0192elfe, that \u0192he tooke verie little or no Food for \u0192everall Years pa\u0192t; that \u0192he tarried in the Fields over Night, \u0192aw and conver\u0192ed with a People \u0192he knew not, having wandered in \u0192eeking of her Sheep, and \u0192leep't upon a Hillock, and finding her \u0192elf tran\u0192ported to another Place before Day. The Woman had a Child \u0192ince that Time, and is \u0192till prettie melanchollyous and \u0192ilent, hardly ever \u0192een to laugh. Her natural Heat and radical Moi\u0192ture \u0192eem to be equally balanced, lyke ane unextingui\u0192hed Lamp, and going in a Circle, not unlike to the faint Lyfe of Bees, and \u0192ome Sort of Birds, that \u0192leep all the Winter over, and revive in the Spring.\nIT is u\u0192uall in all magicall Airts to have the Candidates prepo\u0192\u0192e\u0192\u0192it with a Believe of their Tutor's Skill, and Ability to perform their Feats, and act their jugling Pranks and Legerdemain; but a Per\u0192on called Stewart, po\u0192\u0192e\u0192\u0192ed with a prejudice at that was \u0192poken of the 2d Sight,\nand\nand living near to my Hou\u0192e, was \u0192oe put to it by a Seer, before many Witne\u0192\u0192es, that he lo\u0192t his Speech and Power of his Legs, and breathing exce\u0192\u0192ively, as if expyring, becau\u0192e of the many fearfull Wights that appeared to him. The Companie were forced to carrie him into the Hou\u0192e.\nIT is notoriou\u0192ly known what in Killin, within Perth\u0192hire, fell tragically out with a Yeoman that liv'd hard by, who coming into a Companie within ane Ale-hou\u0192e, where a Seer \u0192at at Table, that at the Sight of the Intrant Neighbour, the Seer \u0192tarting, ro\u0192e to go out of the Hous; and being a\u0192ked the Rea\u0192on of his ha\u0192t, told that the intrant Man \u0192hould die within two Days; at which News the named Intrant \u0192labb'd the Seer, and was him\u0192elf executed two Days after for the Fact.\nA MINISTER, verie intelligent, but mi\u0192believing all \u0192uch Sights as were not ordinar, chanceing to be in a narrow Lane with a Seer, who perceaving a Wight of a known Vi\u0192age furio\u0192lie to encounter them, the Seer de\u0192ired the Mini\u0192ter to turn out of the Way; who \u0192corning his\nRea\u0192on\n[paragraph continues] Rea\u0192on, and holding him \u0192elfe in the Path with them, when the Seer was going ha\u0192tily out of the Way, they were both violently ca\u0192t a \u0192ide to a good Di\u0192tance, and the Fall made them lame for all their Lyfe. A little after the Mini\u0192ter was carried Home, one came to tol the Bell for the Death of the Man who\u0192e Repre\u0192entation met them in the narrow Path \u0192ome Halfe ane Hour before.\nANOTHER Example is: A Seer in Kintyre, in Scotland, \u0192itting at Table with diver\u0192e others, \u0192uddenly did ca\u0192t his Head a\u0192ide. The Companie a\u0192king him why he did it, he an\u0192wered, that \u0192uch a Friend of his, by Name, then in Ireland, threatened immediately to ca\u0192t a Di\u0192hfull of Butter in his Face. The Men wrote down the Day and Hour, and \u0192ent to the Gentleman to know the Truth; which Deed the Gentleman declared he did at that verie Time, for he knew that his Friend was a Seer, and would make \u0192port with it. The Men that were pre\u0192ent, and examined the Matter exactly, told me this Story; and with all, that a Seer would with all his Opticks perceive no other Object \u0192o readily as this, at \u0192uch a Di\u0192tance.\n35:1 Thus in the manuscript, which is only a Transcript of Mr. Kirk's Original. Perhaps M'Intyre?","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 15","type":"page"}