This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...The Californian Indians would give children certain intoxicants, in order to gain from the ensuing vision information about their enemies. And the Daricn Indians used the seeds of the Datura sanguinca to produce in children prophetic delirium, during which they revealed the whereabouts of hidden treasure. In our own ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...The Californian Indians would give children certain intoxicants, in order to gain from the ensuing vision information about their enemies. And the Daricn Indians used the seeds of the Datura sanguinca to produce in children prophetic delirium, during which they revealed the whereabouts of hidden treasure. In our own country various charms have been practised from time immemorial for invoking spirits, and, as we shall show in a succeeding chapter, it is still a widespread belief that, by having rccourse to certain spells at special seasons in the year, one, if so desirous, may be favoured with a view of the spirits of departed friends. CHAPTER XVI GHOSTLY DEATH-WARNINGS Tub belief in death-omens peculiar to certain families has long been a fruitful source of superstition, and has been embodied in many a strange legendary romance. Such family forewarnings of death are of a most varied description, and are still said to bo of frequent occurrence. An ancient Roman Catholic family in Yorkshire, of the name of Middleton, is supposed to be apprised of the death of any one of its members by the apparition of a Benedictine nun; and Sir Walter Scott, in his 'Peveril of the Peak, ' tells us how a certain spirit is commonly believed to attend on the Stanley. family, warning them by uttering a loud shriek of some approaching calamity, and especially ' weeping and bemoaning herself before the death of any person of distinction belonging to the family.' In. I his 'Waverley, ' too, towards the end of Fergus Maclvor's history, he alludes to the Bodach Glas, or dark grey man. Mr. Henderson says,1 'Its appearance foretold death in the Clan of, and I have been informed on the.most credible testimony of its appearance in our own day. The Earl of E, a nobleman alike beloved and re.
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