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The gift of knowing the funeral before the death, never the lottery numbers before Tuesday.
means A supposed psychic ability to perceive future events or things happening elsewhere, as if seeing them directly.
from The phrase was used to translate an gift long attributed in Scottish Gaelic tradition to 'an dà shealladh' — 'the two sights' — the ordinary sight everyone has plus a second, uninvited one that shows deaths, funerals, and disasters before they occur. English writers, including Samuel Johnson after his 18th-century tour of the Hebrides, picked up the term and carried it into wider use, where it settled into meaning any uncanny foreknowledge, almost always of misfortune rather than fortune.
- origin
- Scottish Highland folklore, an dà shealladh, the two sights
- specialty
- Tends to show doom, rarely shows anything useful
- inheritance
- Often said to run in families, unasked for
- irony
- Seers see others clearly, their own fate stays dark