One instance I had
from a gentleman here, of a Highland gentleman of the Macdonalds, who
having a brother that came to visit him, saw him coming in, wanting a
head; yet told not his brother he saw any such thing; but within
twenty-four hours thereafter, his brother was taken, (being a
murderer) and his head cut off, and sent to Edinburgh. Many such
instances might be given,
Query 5.
If the second-sight be a thing that is troublesome and uneasy to those
that have it, and such as they would gladly be rid of?
Answer.
It is commonly talked by all I spoke with, that it is troublesome; and
they would gladly be freed from it, but cannot: only I heard lately of
a man very much troubled in his soul therewith, and by serious begging
of God deliverance from it, at length lost the faculty of the second-
sight.
Query 6.
If any person, or persons, truly godly, who may justly be presumed to
be such, have been known to have had this gift or faculty ?
Answer.
Negatively, not any godly, but such as are virtuous.
Query 7.
If it descends by succession from parents to children ? or if not,
whether those that have it can tell how they came by it ?
Answer.
That it is by succession, I cannot learn; how they came by it, it is
hard to know, neither will they tell; which if they did, they are sure
of their strokes from an invisible hand.
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