ghost-seer

There are several instances of this in tradition, but one struck me particularly, as I heard it from the lips of one who professed receiving it from those of a ghost-seer.

Redgauntlet 2008

“Arl in white — as a ghaist should be,” answered the ghost-seer, with a confidence beyond his years.

The Woman in White 2003

The dreaded hour, the post-hour, was nearing, and I sat waiting it, much as a ghost-seer might wait his spectre.

Villette 2003

The ghost-seer was a young candidate for orders, eighteen years of age, of the name of Billing.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Pfeffel, then, unknown to the ghost-seer, had the ground dug up, when there was found at some depth, beneath a layer of quicklime, a decomposing human body.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Anything less suggestive of the supernatural, or in every way less like the typical ghost-seer, was surely never produced than the round and rubicund little person I found in conversation with the Atherleys.

Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer

Now the present book embodies an attempt to write a _cheerful_ ghost-story; a story in which the ghostly element is of a friendly and pleasant character, and sheds a sense of happiness and sunshine over the entire life of the ghost-seer.

Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

My informant, who thought the whole matter very serious, and was disposed to believe the unearthly visit to have been no idle one, added, that it _had_ made the ghost-seer, for the time at all events, a wiser and better man.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

A point was supposed to have been made, when the counsel for the defence asked the ghost-seer what language the ghost, who was

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

XII., and fancies himself a prophet and ghost-seer.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various