The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

ne they can be corroborated. Queen Mary's Jewels. Story from Brierre de Boismont. Mr. Williams's Dream before Mr. Perceval's Murder. Discrepancies of Evidence. Curious Story of Bude Kirk. Mr. Will

ippers. Waking Dreams. The D

, too, that the event is not one which could be guessed, like the death of an invalid or the result of a race or of an election. This would be odd enough, but the facts of which I dreamed must have been present in the minds of living people. Now, if there is such a thing as "mental telegraphy" or "telepathy," {28} my mind, in dream, may have "tapped" the minds of the people who knew the facts. We may not believe in "mental telegraphy," but we can imagine it as one of the unknown possibilities of nature. Again, if I dream of an unchronicled event in the past, an

and the unknown future. The judicious reasonably set them all aside as the results of fortuitous coincidence, or revived recollection, or of the ill

hese books and papers existed, and were known to exist, before the occurrence of the visions, it is obvious that the matter of the visions may have been derived from the books and so forth, or at least, a sceptic will vastly prefer this explanation. What we need is a dream or vi

burgh. After studying for many years the real or alleged phenomena of what has been called mesmerism, or elec

egend of Queen Mary's jewels is derived from (1) the note-book, or (2) a letter containing, or professing to contain, extracts from the note-book, of a Major Buckley, an Anglo-Indian of

ge the narrative. Major Buckley hypnotised a young officer, who, on November 15, 1845, fel

MARY'S

ur ring" (a "medallion" of Anthony a

worth ￡60, and put the r

nged to

at cou

th other things from Italy. It came from Naples. It is not in the old sett

r now copied on paper a writing which in his trance he saw on vellum. The design here engraved (

ne was above the size of one of four carats. "It" (the cross) "was worn o

and jealousy: he threw it into the water. When he took it off,

enceinte, and might well be carried

f Sizzle's murder, which h

trance, the seer finished his

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for à Marie,

in Edinburgh Castle where James VI. was born, four months after Rizzio's murder. They also occur in documents. Dr. Gregory

added the names of the persons to whom she bequeathed her treasures in case she died in child-bed. But this inventory, hidden among a mass of law-papers in the Record Office, was not discovered till 1854, ni

ch she kept till her death, for it appears in a list made after her execution at Fotheringay. The murdered Dav

lui qui je luy ay dit, une

elui qui je luy ai dit, d

vingt cinq diamens ta

n. It is "to be carried to one whose name the queen has spoken in her new secretary's ear" (Joseph's), "but dare not trust herself to write". "It would be idle now to seek to pry into the mystery which was thus anxiously guarded," says Dr. Robertson, editor of the queen's inventories. The doctor knew nothing of the vision which, perhaps, so ne

llucinations {35b} (Paris, 1845). "There are," says the learned author, "authentic dreams which have revealed an event occurring at the mo

DEAT

that she saw her mother, pale and dying, and especially grieved at the absence of two of her children: one a curé in Spain, the other-herself-in Paris. Next she heard her own Christian name called, "Charlotte!" and, in her dream, saw the people about her mo

attention of her uncle. She told him her dream; he presse

like any one to touch. Among these was a letter containing the story of her mother's death, with all

till unknown relations in the moral and physical world". "Mental telegraphy," of

silly season" of 1828 (August 28). According to The Times, whose account is very minute, Mr. Williams dreamed of the murder thrice before 2 a.m. on the night of May 11. He told Mrs. Williams, and was so disturbed that he rose and dressed at two in the morning. He went to Falmouth next day (May 12), and told the tale to every one he knew. On the evening of the 13th he told it to Mr. and Mrs. Tucker (his married daughter) of Tremanton Castle. Mr. Williams only knew that the

Mr. Williams in the presence of the Rev. Thomas Fisher and Mr. Charles Prideaux Brune". Mr. Brune gave it to Mr. Walpole. With only verbal differences this variant correspo

he victim, but "understood that it was Mr. Perceval". He thinks of going to town to give warning. We hear nothing of Mr. Tucker. Mr. Williams does not verify his dream in the House, but from a drawing. A Mr. C. R. Fox, son of one to whom the

uotes the Dumfries paper, and adds that "the Rev. Mr. Yorstoun, minister of Hoddam (ob. 1833), has visited Bude Kirk and has obtained the most satisfactory proof of the rumour having existed" on May 10, but the rumour cannot be traced to its source. Mr. Yorstoun authorises the mention of his name. The Times of June 2 says that "the report is without foundation". If

ollow is probably that signed by M

as a revelation of the future that it reached his mind from the purpo

R. PERCEVA

L, Decem

ier House, in the county of Cornwall, in the year 1812. Taken from his ow

rintendence of some very extensive mines in Cornwall being entrusted to me. Thus I had no leisure to pay any attention to political matters, and hardly knew at that time who formed the administration of the country. It was, therefo

m was as

he was the chancellor. I understood him to be Mr. Perceval, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer. I further saw the murderer laid hold of by several of the gentlemen in the room. Upon waking I told the particulars above related to my wife; she treated the matter lightly, and desired me to go to sleep, saying it was only a dream. I soon fell asleep again, and again the dream presented itself with precisely the same circumstances. After waking a second time and stating the matter again to my wife, she only repeated her request that I would compose myself and dismiss the subject from my mind. Upon my falling asleep the third time, the same dream without any alteration was repeated, and I awoke, as on

ning from Truro, came in a hurried manner into the room where I was sitting and exclaimed: 'O father, your dream has come true! Mr. Perceval

val was assassinated on

I purchased it, and upon a careful examination I found it to coincide in all respects with the scene which had passed through my imagination in the dream. The colours of the dresses,

end, the late Mr. Rennie, was requested by some of the commissioners of the navy that they might be permitted to hear the circumstances from myself. Two of them ac

ve, further than to declare solemnly that it is a f

JOHN WILLI

are scarce indeed, that is, dreams respectably authenticated. We

ATTLE

, while walking with his brother, Dr. Kinsolving nearly trod on a rattlesnake, "the same snake in every particular with the one I had had in my mind's eye". This would be very well, but Dr. Kinsolving's brother, who helped to kill the unlucky serpent, says "he

written by Mr. Alfred Cooper, and attest

RED

Duke of Hamilton, in Hill Street, to see him professionally. After I had finished seeing him, we

bed, but after being in bed a short time, I was not exactly asleep, but thought I saw a scene as if from a play before me. The actors in it were

; there is very little the matter with him; he is

at the end of six or seven days after this I was calle

saw the other, the dream of the duchess was exactly represented. He was standing near a bath over the earl, and strange to say, his beard was red. T

e of Manchester, father of the Duchess of Hamilton, who heard t

as ill. She knew she was not asleep, for she opened her eyes to get

r places, occasionally known faces. The writer has seen his own in this way and has occasionally "opened his eyes to get rid of" the appearances. In his opinion the pictures are unconsciously constructed by the half-sleeping mind o

IN THE

m and a man whom he did not know. The man's back was turned to the looker-on. The scene vanished, and grew again. Now the man faced Dr. Hodson; the face was unfamiliar, and had a deep white scar seaming the moustache. Dr. Hodson mentioned the circumstance to his friends, and thought little of it. He returned home, and, one day, in Perth station, met the lady at the book-stall. He went up to accost her

uture event, with details which

ORAL

January, 1881, attending a daughter, Mrs. C

at last I heard Mr. C. on the stairs, and cried to him: 'Oh, Chan, for heaven's sake get a doctor! Ada may be confined at any moment'; that he rushed away, and I returned to the bedside of my daughter, who was in agony of mind and body; that suddenly I seemed to know what to do, . . . and that shortly aft

m for Mr. C.; he came at last, went out to bring a doctor, and was long absent. Then Mrs. Weiss suddenly felt a calm certainty that she (though inexperienced in such cares) could do what was needed. "I heard myself say in a peremptory fashion: 'Ada, don't be afraid, I know just what to do; all wil

statement, "and in so far as I can remember it is quite correct". Mr. C. remembers nothing about it; "he declares that he has no re

the baby Mrs. C. called Mr. C.'s attention to "the doctor's necktie," and heard her s

anything whatever "outside of his business". Another witness appears to decline to be ca

owledge supposed to be only known to a dea

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se near his inn. In his pocket were nine dollars, seventy-five cents, but his clothes, including his shirt, were thought so dirty and worthless that they were thrown away. The body was then dressed in a white shirt, black clothes and satin slippers of a new pattern. Pat Conley was telegraphed for, and

I came to, I told Pat I had seen father. I asked Pat if he had brought back father's old clothes. He said 'No,' and asked me why I wanted them. I told him father said he had sewed a roll of bills in

up in a bundle. Receiving this news, Pat went to Dubuque on February 9, where Mr. Hoffman opened the bundle in Pat's presence. Inside the

thes, because the figure of her father in her dream wore clothes which s

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e stopped as a bookseller's shop to stare at the books and pictures, and while doing so felt a kind of mental vagueness. It was just before his dinner hour, and he may have been hungry. On resuming his way, he looked up and found the dead overseer beside him. He had no sense of surprise, and walked for some distance, conversing on ordinary topics with the appearance. He happened to notice such a minute deta

boys had made a covenant, the first who died was to appear to the other. He did appear before news of his death

O

DER." Times,

from Annan, that Mr. Perceval was shot on his way to the House of Commons, at the door or in the lobby of that House. This the whole inhabitants of the village are ready to a

une says, "Report

ster of Hoddam. This gentleman went to the spot and carefully investigated the rumour, but has not hitherto been successful, although he has obtained the most satisfactory proof of its having existed at the time we

ourier I cannot find! It is