Celtic fairy traditions
Second Sight in Celtic Testimony
An Irish account describes a woman who sees and speaks with the good people and knows events at relatives’ homes. The survey classifies these experiences as second sight. Kirk defines the condition as a rapture or transport, while Evans-Wentz compares inherited and developed forms of the faculty. These are recorded descriptions and explanations, not a validated ability offered to the reader.
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Principal account
ReportedAn Irish account describes a woman who sees and speaks with the good people and knows events at relatives’ homes. The survey classifies these experiences as second sight.
Further detail
ReportedKirk defines the condition as a rapture or transport, while Evans-Wentz compares inherited and developed forms of the faculty. These are recorded descriptions and explanations, not a validated ability offered to the reader.
Context & interpretation
Evans-Wentz combines named informants, manuscript narratives, and his own psychical theory in a 1911 survey. This entry preserves those distinctions: collected belief and literary tradition do not establish the physical existence of an Otherworld.
Original passages
Source 1
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
and to talk with them, for she had the second-sight. And it is said that she used to travel with the fairies at night.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 74
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- Edition
- IMJ-0045-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0045-E001-P0074
- Original scan leaf
- 75
- Recorded leaf number
- 75
- Current Reader position
- 70
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- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
* good people ', as * a rapture, transport, and sort of death '. He and our present witness came into the world with this abnormal facultyOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 122
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0045-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0045-E001-P0122
- Original scan leaf
- 123
- Recorded leaf number
- 123
- Current Reader position
- 118
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed