If these events which second-sighted men discover, or foretel, be visibly represented to them, and acted, as it were before their eyes ?
Answer.
Affirmatively, they see those things visibly; but none sees but themselves; for instance, if a man's fatal end be hanging, they will see a gibbet, or a rope about his neck: if beheaded, they will see the man without a head; if drowned, they will see water up to his throat; if unexpected death, they will see a winding sheet about his head: all which are represented to their view. 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.