familiar. Montezuma's priests predicted the arrival of the
Spaniards long before the event. On this point, in itself well
vouched for, Acosta tells a story which illustrates the identity of
the 'astral body,' or double, with the ordinary body. In the witch
stories of Increase Mather and others, where the possessed sees the
phantasm of the witch, and strikes it, the actual witch proves to be
injured. Story leads to story, and Mr. Thomas Hardy somewhere tells
one to this effect. A farmer's wife, a woman of some education,
fell asleep in the afternoon, and dreamed that a neighbour of hers,
a woman, was sitting on her chest. She caught at the figure's arm
in her dream, and woke. Later in the day she met her neighbour, who
complained of a pain in the arm, just where the farmer's wife seized
it in her dream. The place mortified and the poor lady died. To
return to Montezuma. An honest labourer was brought before him, who
made this very tough statement. He had been carried by an eagle
into a cave, where he saw a man in splendid dress sleeping heavily.
Beside him stood a burning stick of incense such as the Aztecs used.
A voice announced that this sleeper was Montezuma, prophesied his
doom, and bade the labourer burn the slumberer's face with the
flaming incense stick. The labourer reluctantly applied the flame
to the royal nose, 'but he moved not, nor showed any feeling'. On
this anecdote being related to Montezuma, he looked on his own face
in a mirror, and 'found that he was burned, the which he had not
felt till then'. {52}

On the Coppermine River the medicine-man, according to Hearne,
prophesies of travellers, like the Highland second-sighted man, ere
they appear. The Finns and Lapps boast of similar powers. Scheffer
is copious on the clairvoyant feats of Lapps in trance. The Eskimo
Angakut, when bound with their heads between their legs, cause