The Celestial Telegraph, Or, Secrets of the Life to Come, Revealed Through Magnetism, Wherein the Existence, the Form and the Occupations, of the Soul After Its Separation from the Body are Proved by Many Years' Experiments, by the Means of Eight Ecstatic Somnambulists, who Had Eighty Perceptions of Thirty-six Deceased Persons of Various Conditions: a Description of Them, Their Conversation, Etc., with Proofs of Their Existence in the Spiritual World

The Celestial Telegraph, Or, Secrets of the Life to Come, Revealed Through Magnetism, Wherein the Existence, the Form and the Occupations, of the Soul After Its Separation from the Body are Proved by Many Years' Experiments, by the Means of Eight Ecstatic Somnambulists, who Had Eighty Perceptions of Thirty-six Deceased Persons of Various Conditions: a Description of Them, Their Conversation, Etc., with Proofs of Their Existence in the Spiritual World
Author: Louis Alphonse Cahagnet
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Total Pages: 434
Release: 1851
Genre: Future life
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Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century

Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Elsa Richardson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-06-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137519703
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This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’, those in possession of this extraordinary power are said to foresee future events like the death of neighbour, the arrival of strangers into the community, the success or failure of a fishing trip. From the late seventeenth century onwards, rumours of this strange faculty attracted the attention of numerous scientists, travel writers, antiquarians, poets and artists. Focusing on the nineteenth century, this book examines second sight in relation to mesmerism and phrenology, modern spiritualism and anthropology, romance literature and folklorism and finally, psychical research and Celtic mysticism. Tracing the migration of a supposedly ‘Scottish’ tradition through various sites of nineteenth-century popular culture, it explores questions of nationhood and identity alongside those posed by supernatural phenomena.