| Description | Walker shares the story of Mr Mackenzy in Oxford, who claims that he 'saw apparitions allmost every week: and upon his knowledge they did very freqently foretel the death of persons'. Mackenzy suggests that these apparitions are common in the island of Lewis, north of the Hebrides, and in the Scottish Highlands, where the people who could see the apparitions were commonly known as 'secondsighted men'.
Subject: Parapsychology
Read to the Royal Society on 16 November 1698 |