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‖ taisch, taish Gaelic Folklore.|taɪʃ|
[a. Gaelic taibhs (taivʃ, taiʃ):—OIr. taidbse, MIr. tadhbais, phantasm.]
The phantom or apparition of a living person who is about to die; also, in more general sense, a phantom or vision of second sight.
1775Johnson Western Isles, Ostig, By the term second sight, seems to be meant a mode of seeing, superadded to that which nature generally bestows. In the Erse it is called Taisch; which signifies likewise a spectre, or a vision. 1785Boswell Tour to Hebrides 7 Sept., Some women said to him, they had heard two taischs, that is, two voices of persons about to die; and what was remarkable, one of them was an English taisch, which they never heard before. 1792Statist. Acc. Scotl., Ross III. 380 The ghosts of the dying, called tasks, are said to be heard, their cry being a repetition of the moans of the sick... The corps follow the tract led by the tasks to the place of interment. [Here task appears to be Gael. tasg ‘ghost’, erroneously taken in sense of taibhs, taisch.] 1902J. G. Campbell Witchcraft & Second Sight 159 Some time after [the taïsh was seen] a ship was wrecked in the east end of Tiree, and one of the sailors whose dress, when his body was found, corresponded to that of the taish, was taken and buried in Kirkapool. |