DREAMS WHICH FORETELL DEATH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 15 July 1911, Page 10

DREAMS WHICH FORETELL DEATH.

TRAGIC SEQUELS TO AMAZING

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The sceptical are apt to laugh and mayoe sneer at those who believe in the oxrien of ctreams. Truth, however, is swanger than notion, and numerous instances could be quoted of dreams wnicn have foreshadowed tragedy. Quite recently, for instance, the Rev. J. Taylor Collins, Hector of Dufton, Applteoy, 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 m January, 1910, and about two months afterwards the father dreamed he'was in a room unfamiliar to him, and while there saw his boy jump inuo tne room and then vanish. "I do not pay ;much attention to dreams/ says Mr Collins, "and did not recall the date of this, though \ wish I had. In June, 6h the arrival of the ship, I received information that my boy was dead. He had fallen from one or the masts during a gale in March,"

MYSTERY OF THE MJSSING MAN

More amazing still was a woman's startling dream which, ajb the beginning oi January, led to the discovery, of the suicide of a man who was missing. The latter was a .well-known local preacher at Luton, and the woman dreamt that she went to a certain mis-Sion-hally and saw him seated in front of the pulpit with bowed head. This i dream so worried her that her,husband decided tor visit the hall and investigate. With another member of the mission and a police 'constable, they went to the hall, and found the door locked from the (aside. They forced an entrance, and tker| fpiiad tbe missing man hanging from o"n6 dt%B beams.' Some time ago 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 ho communication, in which he .stated that on the previous night he dreamt that his brother Samuel had cut iusj throat in Kent. Police inquiries were! made and as a result of their investi-! gations the woman went to Orpington, where the body of a man had been iQUfld who haft cut his throat. It was her husbahdj wHo had been buried ttire^days before.' ■' VISIQ^SgiF LADY ANDOVER. Perhapg^the best-known dreams foretelling death are those of Lady Andover, diaughte%o| the famous "Coke ptf Nor-, folk.:' While staying with her husband at her old home in JNorfolk, she dreamed that he had been shot; arid in deference to her entreaty Lord Andover did not go with the shooting party. As the day wore on., Lady Andover's dream made less impression, and knowing how devoted to shooting her husband was, she suggested that he should go out for the rest of the- afternoon. No sooner had 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 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 at 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, leave the house for burial elsewhere.