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Glimpses in the Twilight; Being Various Notes, Records, and Examples of the Supernatural
Glimpses in the Twilight Being Various Notes Records and Examples of the Supernatural Author:Frederick George Lee General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood Subjects: Supernatural Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Bo... more »oks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: At night the noises began again; the sound of blows, shrieks of pain, and a frightful contention of struggling enemies appalled the party of villagers set to watch the place, in order to prevent the possibility of deception. The tale was whispered far beyond the precincts of the village, and savants from the neighbouring city of Lincoln, who laughed at the idea of anything supernatural, suggested that an explosion of gas from the foul air of the vault might have occasioned the displacement of the coffins. The Squire was induced to have large ventilators constructed in the vault; but this did not in the least abate the nuisance, which to the terror of the village rather increased than diminished. At length the Squire himself resolved that a strong brick wall should be built up in the vault, so as to separate effectually the coffins of those who, even in the solitude of the tomb, seemed to keep up their antagonism. This had the desired effect; from that duly performed action all was quiet in the vault, and the noises were never heard again. Second-sight -- of which some notable examples of different periods must now be given -- has been thus denned : " A singular faculty of seeing an otherwise invisible object, without any previous means used by the person who sees it for that end. The vision in question makes such a lively impression upon those who possess the gift, that they neither see nor hear anything else, except the vision and its details, so long as that vision continues." Signs are beheld indicating future events. Crowds have been wit...« less