the figure's arm
in her dream, and woke. Later in the day she met her neighbour, who
complained of a pain in the arm, just where the farmer's wife seized
it in her dream. The place mortified and the poor lady died. To
return to Montezuma. An honest labourer was brought before him, who
made this very tough statement. He had been carried by an eagle
into a cave, where he saw a man in splendid dress sleeping heavily.
Beside him stood a burning stick of incense such as the Aztecs used.
A voice announced that this sleeper was Montezuma, prophesied his
doom, and bade the labourer burn the slumberer's face with the
flaming incense stick. The labourer reluctantly applied the flame
to the royal nose, 'but he moved not, nor showed any feeling'. On
this anecdote being related to Montezuma, he looked on his own face
in a mirror, and 'found that he was burned, the which he had not
felt till then'. {52}

On the Coppermine River the medicine-man, according to Hearne,
prophesies of travellers, like the Highland second-sighted man, ere
they appear. The Finns and Lapps boast of similar powers. Scheffer
is copious on the clairvoyant feats of Lapps in trance. The Eskimo
Angakut, when bound with their heads between their legs, cause
luminous apparitions, just as was done by Mr. Stainton Moses, and by
the mediums known to Porphyry and Iamblichus; the Angakut also send
their souls on voyages, and behold distant lands. One of the oddest
Angekok stories in Rink's Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo (p.
324) tells how some children played at magic, making 'a dark
cabinet,' by hanging jackets over the door, to exclude the light.
'The slabs of the floor were lifted and rushed after them:' a case
of 'movement of objects without physical contact'. This phenomenon
in future attended the young medium's possessions, even when he was
away from home. This particular kind of manifestation, so very
common in trials for witchcraft, and in modern spiritualistic
literature, does not appear to prevail much among savages. Persons
otherwise credible and sane tell the authorities of the Psychical
Society that, with only three amateurs present, things are thrown
about, and objects are brought from places many miles distant, and
tossed on the table. These are technically termed apports. The
writer knows a case in which this was attested by a witness of the
most unimpeachable character. But savages hardly go so far. Bishop
Callaway has an instance