"Frauds will come to light, and death will find its victims." And all this information is given to us for a penny.
The palmist examines our hand.

"You will go a journey," he tells us.

It is marvellous! How could he have known that only the night before we had been discussing the advisability of taking the children to Margate for the holidays?
"There is trouble in store for you," he tells us, regretfully, "but you will get over it." We feel that the future has no secret hidden from him.
We have "presentiments" that people we love, who are climbing mountains, who are fond of ballooning, are in danger.
The sister of a friend of mine who went out to the South African War as a volunteer had three presentiments of his death.

He came home safe and sound, but admitted that on three distinct occasions he had been in imminent danger.

It seemed to the dear lady a proof of everything she had ever read.
Another friend of mine was waked in the middle of the night by his wife, who insisted that he should dress himself and walk three miles across a moor because she had had a dream that something terrible was happening to a bosom friend of hers.