Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introductory Notes on the Texts
- 1 Robert Boyle’s notes on his interview with Lord Tarbat, 3 October 1678
- 2 ‘A Collection of Highland Rites and Customs’
- 3 Robert Kirk’s The Secret Commonwealth and his ‘A Short Treatise of the Scotish-Irish Charms and Spells’
- 4 James Garden’s letters to John Aubrey
- 5 Samuel Pepys’s collection of letters on second sight
- 6 John Fraser’s ∆ϵυτϵϱοσϰoπια
- 7 Edward Lhuyd’s and Robert Wodrow’s questionnaires and the responses of John Fraser and John MacLean
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: Quotations of biblical passages cited in the texts above
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
6 - John Fraser’s ∆ϵυτϵϱοσϰoπια
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introductory Notes on the Texts
- 1 Robert Boyle’s notes on his interview with Lord Tarbat, 3 October 1678
- 2 ‘A Collection of Highland Rites and Customs’
- 3 Robert Kirk’s The Secret Commonwealth and his ‘A Short Treatise of the Scotish-Irish Charms and Spells’
- 4 James Garden’s letters to John Aubrey
- 5 Samuel Pepys’s collection of letters on second sight
- 6 John Fraser’s ∆ϵυτϵϱοσϰoπια
- 7 Edward Lhuyd’s and Robert Wodrow’s questionnaires and the responses of John Fraser and John MacLean
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: Quotations of biblical passages cited in the texts above
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
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By the Reverend Mr. John Frazer, deceased, late Minister of Teree and Coll, and Dean of the Isles,
and
Published by Mr. Andrew Symson, with a short account of the Author.
Edinburgh, printed by Mr Andrew Symson, Anno Domini M.DDC.VII /A2/
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To the Right Honourable, Universally learned and my very singular good Lord GEORGE
Earl of Cromartie, Viscount of Tarbat, Lord MLeod and Castlehaven, &c.
Lord Justice General of the Kingdom of Scotland, and one of Her
Majesties most Honourable Privy Council.
This following Discourse, intituled ∆ϵυτϵϱοσϰoπια &c. written by the Reverend Mr: John Frazer late Minister of Teree and Coll, and Dean of the Isles, is with all due Respect and Reverence Dedicated by the Printer and Publisher hereof, his Lordships
Most humble and obedient Servant in all duty Andrew Symson: /A3/*
The PUBLISHER To the READER
The Reverend Author of the ensuing Discourse having married my near Kinswoman, and being in this City in Novemb. 1700, in order to the settling of some of his Affairs; as we were discoursing of several things relating to the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, we came to speak of the Second Sight, reported to be so common in these parts; he told me, that as to the thing itself, it was most certain and undeniable, and that he could give many instances of it; As also that he had written a short Discourse upon that Subject. This he promis’d to transmit to me; accordingly, on his return home, after a tedious & troublesome Voyage both by Sea and Land, he sent me that Discourse written with his own hand, desiring me to publish /A3v/ the same, after some of his Friends here had perus’d it: which being done, I, at my own conveniency, put it to the Press, but before it was finish’d I received an account that the Author was dead; whereupon I forbare the publishing of it, till I should get an account of several passages concerning himself and Family, designing to prefix the same to the Discourse it self, which I conceiv’d would be acceptable to his Friends, and not displeasing to the Reader. And therefore I dispatched a Letter to one of his nearest Relations, and that was best acquainted with him, and with the passages of his Life, that so I might thereby be the better informed.
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- The Occult LaboratoryMagic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland, pp. 187 - 204Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2001