Ravens & black rain: The story of Highland second sight, including a new collection of the prophecies of the Brahan Seer

The Highland gift of second sight - spontaneous, unsought vision, foreknowledge of impending disaster, the gift that is accounted an affliction - was first documented in print towards the end of the seventeenth century, but ballads and folk-tales show that it was common in Highland experience for many centuries before that.\nHere are the visions of generations of Highlanders and the prophecies of past seers together with researches into second sight published from the seventeenth century to the present day.