To these instances of knowledge acquired otherwise than by the recognised channels of sense we might add the Scottish tales of ‘second sight.’  That phrase is merely a local term covering examples of what is called ’clairvoyance’—­views of things remote in space, hallucinations of sight that coincide with some notable event, premonitions of things future, and so on.  The belief and hallucinatory experiences are still very common in the Highlands, where I have myself collected many recent instances.  Mr. Tylor observes that the examples ’prove a little too much; they vouch not only for human apparitions, but for such phantoms as demon dogs, and for still more fanciful symbolic omens.’  This is perfectly true.  I have found no cases of demon dogs; but wandering lights, probably of meteoric or miasmatic origin, are certainly regarded as tokens of death.  This is obviously a superstitious hypothesis, the lights being real phenomena misconstrued.  Again, funerals are not uncommonly seen where no funeral is taking place; it is then alleged that a real funeral, similar and similarly situated, soon afterwards occurred.  On the hypothesis of believers, the percipients somehow behold

  ’Such refraction of events
    As often rises ere they rise.’

Even the savage cannot account for this experience by the wandering of the soul in space; nor do I suggest any explanation.  I give, however, one or two instances.  They are published in the ’Journal of the Caledonian Medical Society,’ 1897, by Dr. Alastair Macgregor, on the authority of the MSS. of his father, a minister in the island of Skye.

’He once told me that when he first went to Skye he scoffed at the idea of such a power as second sight being genuine; but he said that, after having been there for some years as a clergyman, he had been so often consulted beforehand by people who said they had seen visions of events which subsequently occurred, to my father’s knowledge, in exact accordance with the form and details of the vision as foretold, that he was compelled to confess that some folks had, apparently at least, the unfortunate faculty.

’As my father expressed it, this faculty was “neither voluntary nor constant, and was considered rather annoying than agreeable to the possessors of it.  The gift was possessed by individuals of both sexes, and its fits came on within doors and without, sitting and standing, at night and by day, and at whatever employment the votary might chance to be engaged."’

Here follows a typical example of the vision of a funeral: 

’The session clerk at Dull, a small village in Perthshire, was ill, and my grandfather, clergyman there at the time, had to do duty for him.  One fine summer evening, about 7 o’clock, a young man and woman came to get some papers filled up, as they were going to be married.  My grandfather was with the couple in the session clerk’s room, no doubt attending to the papers, when suddenly all