单词 | taisch |
释义 | taischtaishn. Gaelic Folklore. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > wraith or doppelgänger wraith1513 wraith1513 swarth1674 double-man1691 taisch1773 fetch1787 double1798 double-goer1824 double-ganger1830 fetch-like1841 doppelganger1851 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 7 Sept. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 180 Some women..said to him, they had heard two taiscks, (that is, two voices of persons about to die,) and what was remarkable, one of them was an English taisck, which they never heard before. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 250 By the term Second sight, seems to be meant a mode of seeing, superadded to that which Nature generally bestows. In the Earse it is called Taisch; which signifies likewise a spectre, or a vision. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. 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.] 1902 J. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1773 |
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