Brewer's: Second Sight

The power of seeing things invisible to others; the power of foreseeing future events by means of shadows thrown before them. Many Highlanders claim this power, which the ancient Gaels called shadow-sight (taischitaraugh).

Nor less a vailed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second sight.

Trumbull.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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