[{216a}] Paus., ii. 24, I.
[{216b}] Bouché Leclercq, i. 339.
[{223}] The accomplished scryer can see as well in a crystal ringstone, or in a glass of water, as in a big crystal ball. The latter may really be dangerous, if left on a cloth in the sun it may set the cloth on fire.
[{224}] Animal Magnetism, second edition, p. 135.
[{228}] Thus an educated gentleman, a Highlander, tells the author that he once saw a light of this kind ‘not a meteor,’ passing in air along a road where a funeral went soon afterwards. His companions could see nothing, but one of them said: ‘It will be a death-candle’. It seems to have been hallucinatory, otherwise all would have shared the experience.
[{231a}] Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 481, Edinburgh, 1834.
[{231b}] Op. cit., p. 473.
[{232a}] Op. cit., p. 470
[{232b}] It is, perhaps, needless to add that the unhappy patients were executed.
[{232c}] Miscellanies, 1857, p. 184.