r, within the knowledge of the
seeress. She was told that she would go up a certain staircase into
a dingy room with a roll of something under her arm. She would
see a dark man who was thick-set and of quiet demeanour. The
man would take the roll, and it would be a source of good fortune
to her at a later date.

The lady-consultant did so take a certain manuscript rolled up
beneath her arm. She went up the dingy staircase described by the
seeress, and saw the man whose description had been given.

The manuscript was transferred from her hand to that of the
publisher, for such was the man's occupation. The manuscript was
accepted, and later on was published. So the prediction was
literally fulfilled.

In the first case cited the vision was _symbolical_, and the
interpretation was made by the seer himself. In the second case the
vision was literal, and needed no interpretation. These two cases
will serve for an illustration of the two types of vision.

Mrs. A. was consulted by a lady of the writer's acquaintance in
1893. She was told that she would not marry the person to whom
she was then engaged, but would have to wait till a certain person,
who was described, should come from a foreign country and take
her away. This would happen, it was said, in the month of January,
three years later. This event transpired in due course exactly as
predicted, though nothing was further from the probable course of
events; in fact, the lady was not a little irate at the allusion to
the breaking off of her then existing relations, while the idea of
marrying a person whom she had never seen, and for whom she
could have no sort of regard, was naturally revolting to one so
wholly absorbed as she was at the time.

Mrs. G. consulted the seer on September 27th, 1894. She was told
she would have sickness incidental to the loins and shooting pains
in the knees. [A figure was seen with a black cloth around the
loins, the figure stooping and resting its hands upon its knees.] She
would be the owner of a house in the month of December. [A
house was seen covered with snow; the trees were bare.] A
removal would be made when the trees were without leaf. [A bird
was seen on a branch without leaf; the bird flies off.] The
consultant would be engaged in a dispute concerning money.
[Several hands seen grabbing at a pile of money.]

These events came to pass at the time predicted. It is advisable to
note that in the first instance the symbolical v