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Andrew Lang – The girl who saw her friend’s friend’s mother
Identifier
001253
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Supposedly this was a case of 'far seeing' , but it is clear that the girl who told this event to Andrew Lang was reading the other girl’s perceptions. The other girl was perhaps thinking of her man friend, but the emotion appears to have been directed around the mother. Scrying is looking into crystal balls.
A description of the experience
Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion – Chapter V – Crystal Visions, Savage and Civilised
A lady one day asked me to scry out a friend of whom she would think.
Almost immediately I exclaimed “Here is an old, old lady looking at me with a triumphant smile on her face. She has a prominent nose and nut-cracker chin. Her face is very much wrinkled, especially at the sides of her eyes, as if she were always smiling. She is wearing a little white shawl with a black edge.
But! ... she can’t be old as her hair is quite brown! although her face looks so very very old.”
The picture then vanished, and the lady said that I had accurately described her friend’s mother instead of himself; that it was a family joke that the mother must dye her hair, it was so brown and she was eighty-two years old. The lady asked me if the vision were distinct enough for me to recognise a likeness in the son’s photograph; next day she laid several photographs before me, and in a moment, without the slightest hesitation I picked him out from his wonderful likeness to my vision!’