ce of a child, will listen to his, or
her, accounts of spontaneous visions. The writer, as a boy, knew a
child who used to lie prone on the grass watching fairies at play in
the miniature forest of blades and leaves. This child had a
favourite familiar whom he described freely, but as his remarks were
received with good-humoured scepticism, no harm came to him. He
would have made a splendid scryer, still, 'I speak of him but
brotherly,' his revelations would have been taken with the largest
allowances. If scrying, on examination, proves to be of real
psychological interest, science will owe another debt to folklore,
to the folk who kept alive a practice which common-sense would not
deign even to examine.

THE SECOND SIGHT

The Gillie and the fire-raising. Survival of belief in second
sight. Belief in ancient Greece and elsewhere. Examples in
Lapland. Early evidence as to Scotch second sight. Witches burned
for this gift. Examples among the Covenanting Ministers. Early
investigations by English authors: Pepys, Aubrey, Boyle, Dicky
Steele, De Foe, Martin, Kirk, Frazer, Dr. Johnson. Theory of
visions as caused by Fairies. Modern example of Miss H. Theory of
Frazer of Tiree (1700). 'Revived impressions of sense.' Examples.
Agency of Angels. Martin. Modern cases. Bodily condition of the
seer. Not epileptic. The second-sighted Minister. The visionary
Beadle. Transference of vision by touch. Conclusion.

Some years ago, the author was fishing in a river of Inverness-
shire. He drove to the stream, picked up an old gillie named
Campbell, and then went on towards the spot where he meant to begin
angling. A sheep that lay on the road jumped up suddenly, almost
under the horse's feet, the horse shied, and knocked the dogcart
against a wall. On the homeward way we observed a house burning,
opposite the place where the horse shied, and found that a farmer
had been evicted, and his cottage set on fire. This unhappy person,
it seems, was in debt to all his tradesmen, not to his landlord
only. The fire-raising, however, was an excessively barbaric method
of getting him to leave the parish, and the view justified the
indignation of the gillie. The old gillie, much excited, declared
that the horse had foreseen this event in the morning, and had,
consequently, shied. In a more sceptical spirit the author reminded
Campbell of the sheep which started up. 'That sheep was the devil,'
Campbell exp