DREAMS WHICH FORETELL DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 318, 3 June 1911, Page 9

DREAMS WHICH FORETELL DEATH.

TRAGIC SEQUELS TO AMAZIXG VISIONS. The sceptical are apt to laugh and maybe sneer at those who believe in the omen of dreams. Truth, however, is stranger than fiction, and numerous instances could he quoted of dreams which have foreshadowed tragedy. Quite recently, for instance, the Rev. J. Taylor Collins, rector of Dufton, Appleby, told of the sad death of his son, and of a dream which, although he did not know it at the time, came as a warning of tragedy. Mr. Collins's son went to sea in January, 1910, and about two months afterwards the father dreamed he was in a room unfamiliar to him, and while there he saw his boy jump into the room and then vanish. "I do not pay much attention to dreams," says Mr. Collins, "and did not recall the date of this, though I wish I had. In June, on the arrival of tin; ship, I received the information that my bov was dead. He had fallen from one of the masts during a gale in March."

MYSTERY OF THE MISSrNft MAN'. More amazing still was a woman's startling dream "which, at the beginning of January, led to the discovery of the suicide of the man who was missing. The latter was a well-known local preacher at Luton, and the woman dreamt that she went to a certain mission-hall and saw him seated in front of the pulpit with bowed head. The dream so worried her that her husband decided to visit the hall and investigate. \\ ith another members of the mission and a police-con-stable they went to the hall, and found the door locked from the inside. Tlmy foreed an entrance, and there found the mi-sin',' man hanging from one of the beams. Some time ano a bricklayer left his home at Norwood and did not return. His wife, not hearing anything of him for several days, became alarmed, more so when she received a letter from her brother-in-law, with whom she had had no communication, in which he stated that on the previous night he had dreamt that his brother Samuel had cut his throat in Kent. Police inquiries were made, and as a result of their investications the woman went to Orpington, where the body of a man had been found who had cut his throat. It was her husband, who had been buried three davs before,

VISION'S OF LADY AX ROVER. Perhaps the best-known dreams foretelling death are those of Lady Andover, daughter of the famous "Coke of Norfolk." While staving with her husband at her old home in Norfolk she dreamed that be had been shot; and in deference to her entreaty Lord Andover i..u not «o out with the shooting party. As the day wore on. Lady Andovcr's dream made less impression, and, knowing how devoted to shooting her husband was, she suggested that be should go out for the rest of the afternoon. No sooner bad he gone than she began to feel more uneasy than ever, and she went out after him; but while crossing the park she met Lord Andover's servant rushing to the house with the news that her husband had been killed through his gun going off as it was being handed to him through a hedge. On another occasion Lady Andover dreamt that she and her sister were standing at the entrance to the great mansion of Holkham watching a funeral leaving the house; but instead of going to the left, in the direction of the churchyard, the cortege was turning along the avenue to the right. A month later the two sisters were watching the remains of Lady Albemarle, who had died at Holkham, leaving the house for burial elsewhere.