The Future Foretold: 3 Classic Books of Occult Prophecy
Gaelic Second Sight, Highland Folklore, and Victorian Visions of Fate and the FutureBy Coinneach Odhar, Alexander Mackenzie, Pieter Harting
Length11h 28m
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The Future Foretold gathers three classic explorations of occult prophecy, placing visionary utterance, inherited folk belief, and reflective inquiry into divination within a single comparative frame. Its texts move between terse predictions, antiquarian narration, and analytical prose, revealing prophecy as both a literary form and a social practice. Highland traditions of second sight sit beside broader European discussions of foreknowledge, while memorable forecasts, portents, and interpretive puzzles demonstrate the enduring imaginative power of the unseen. The volume's contributors represent distinct nineteenth-century relationships to prophecy: the remembered voice of Gaelic tradition, the work of Scottish preservation and historical transmission, and continental intellectual engagement with supernatural claims. Together, these perspectives illuminate a period in which folklore, emerging modern scholarship, popular curiosity, and spiritual speculation frequently overlapped. Rather than reducing occult prediction to mere credulity, the collection shows how prophetic narratives preserve communal memory, negotiate political and personal uncertainty, and test the boundaries between evidence, belief, and imagination. This anthology is recommended for readers of folklore, esotericism, Scottish cultural history, and the literature of the marvelous. Its compact breadth offers an especially valuable opportunity to compare styles and assumptions across traditions. Read together, the three books foster a stimulating dialogue about how cultures imagine the future—and why prophecies continue to demand interpretation.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length11 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Anno Domini 2071
2Anno Domini 2071
3Aleutic Time?
4Distribution-of-Warm-Air Society
5Verre sans Fin,
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6Age of Aluminium.
7Heliochromes;
8Energeiathecs,
9National Library.
10Nineteenth-Century Books.
11Compulsory Education?”
12Genealogical Museum;
13Solar Light?”
14The Telephon.
15General Balloon Company.
16Travelling Dialect.
17No more War!
18Free Trade; Universal Locomotion.
19Modern Telescopes.
20Channel Bridge.
21North Holland Submerged.
22University Education.
23Loss of Dutch Colonies.
24Railway Nets.
25Geographical Changes in Europe.
26Astronomical Observatories.
27Calculatoria.
28Tin Mines in the Moon.
29Universal Suffrage, etc.
30Anti 1–2 League.
31Woman’s Rights.
32The New Zealand of the Future.
33The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer
34The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche)
35PREFACE.
36PROPHECIES AS TO THE FULFILMENT OF WHICH THERE IS A DOUBT.
37SKETCH OF THE FAMILY OF SEAFORTH.
38ON HIGHLAND SUPERSTITION.
39Footnote
40Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gypsy
41THE LIFE OF ROBERT NIXON, COMMONLY CALLED THE CHESHIRE PROPHET.
42A true and particular Account of a strange and surprising Vision, that was seen in the Forest of Delamere, in Cheshire, on the 4th of last Month.
43PROPHECIES OF MARTHA, THE GIPSY.
44Footnote
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