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• PREMONITION (from Lat. prae, before, monere, to advise or warn)

PREMONITION (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. prae, before, monere, to advise or warn)  , an impression See also:

• RELATING

relating to a future event . Strictly the word should mean a warning proceeding from an See also:

• EXTERNAL

external source . Its See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension to all forms of impression sup-posed to convey See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information as to the future is justified on the See also:

• ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

assumption that such intimations commonly originate in the subliminal consciousness of the percipient and are thence transferred to the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary consciousness . In modern times the best attested premonitions are those relating to events about to occur in the subject's own organism . It was observed by the See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal. magnetists at the beginning of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, that certain of their subjects, When in the " magnetic " See also:

• TRANCE (through the French, from Lat. transitus, from transire, to cross, pass over)

trance, could foretell accurately the course of their diseases, the date of the occurrence of a crisis and the length of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time needed to effect a cure . Similar observations were subsequently recorded in See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and in See also:

• AMERICA

America (see, for instance, the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of See also:

• ANNA
• ANNA (Hindustani ana)
• ANNA, BALDASARRE

Anna See also:

• WINSOR, JUSTIN (1831-1897)

Winsor, 186o-1863, reported by Dr Ira Barrows) . The See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of prediction possessed by the subject in such cases may be explained in two ways: (I) As due to an abnormal power of See also:

• PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception possessed by certain persons, when in the hypnotic trance, of the working of their own pathological processes; or (2) more probably, as the result of self-See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion; the organism is " set " to explode at a given date in a crisis, or to develop the fore-ordained symptoms . Apart from these cases there are two types of alleged pre-monitions . (I) The future event may be foreshadowed by a See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol . Amongst the best known of these symbolic impressions are banshees, See also:

• CORPSE (Lat. corpus, the body)

corpse See also:

• LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL USE OF

lights, phantom funeral processions, ominous animals or sounds and symbolic dreams (e.g. of See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth falling out) . Of all such cases it is enough to say that it is impossible for the serious inquirer to establish any causal connexion between the See also:

• OMEN (a Latin word, either connected with os, mouth, or more probably with auris (Gr. ois, ear; apparently, meaning " a thing heard " or " spoken ")

omen and the event which it is presumed to foreshadow . (2) There are many instances, recorded by educated witnesses, of dreams, visions, warning voices, &c., giving precise information as to coming events .

In some of these cases, where the See also:

• DREAM (from a root dreug, connected with Germ. trugen, to deceive)

dream, &c., has been put on See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record before its " fulfilment " is known, See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance is sufficient to explain the coincidence, as in the recorded cases of dreams foretelling the winner of the See also:

• DERBY
• DERBY, EARLS OF

Derby or the See also:

• DEATH

death of a crowned See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head . In cases where such an explanation is precluded by the nature of the details foreshadowed, the See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence is found to be defective, generally from the See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of contemporary documents . The persistent belief on the See also:

• PART

part of the narrators in the genuineness of their previsions indicates that in some cases there may be a See also:

• HALLUCINATION (from Lat. alucinari or allucinari, to wander in mind, Gr. a.)^i resty or hXvecv, from an, wandering)

hallucination of memory, analogous to the well known feeling of " false recognition." Prof .