All saw it and trembled, but none dared to move towards the mysterious presentment of their sovereign.
"After a moment of dead silence the great Catherine raised her voice and ordered her guard to advance and fire on the apparition.

The order was obeyed, a mirror beside the throne was shattered, the vision had disappeared, and the Empress, with no sign of emotion, took the chair from which her semblance had passed away." It is a striking barbaric scene! "Spirits of the living" of this kind are common enough.

In the Highlands "second sight" generally means a view of an event or accident some time before its occurrence.

Thus an old man was sitting with a little boy on a felled tree beside a steep track in a quarry at Ballachulish.

Suddenly he jerked the boy to one side, and threw himself down on the further side of the tree.