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At about age 11 Janet traveled to Glasgow—apparently without parent or guardian—and soon began helping the population of that city with her paranormal abilities. According to Hickes; “…As she was surrounded, she called out to one man, a goldsmith…and told him that of so long a time he had not been [successful] in his trade…because an image was made against him, which he might find in such a corner of his shop; and when the man went home, there he found it where she said it was and the image was…as she had described it…”
Eventually leaving Glasgow, she arrived in Edinburgh in 1678 where Janet not only told the location of images, but also directly accused several people of practicing witchcraft.</p><p><img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/7108/213757/58c9ad5749523/1489611387_loc.jpg" "="" owidth="1024" oheight="630"" style="height:523px; width:850px" data-un3n79vqp=""></p><p>Soon after her arrival, Hickes arrived in Edinburgh and arranged a meeting with Janet. Hickes says that Janet claimed that Second Sight was the only method in which she received her visions, and that she had never made a pact with the devil. Those visions always came to her when she was awake and the visions did not leave her tired or listless, which many other seers said they experienced.</p><p>After speaking with her, Hickes approached a local duke to get Janet released from Edinburgh, where she had been confined in a local prison to protect her from overly enthusiastic crowds. Hicks was told that she could not be released at that time. Hicks then sent word to Janet that he had tried to obtain her freedom but had been unable to.</p><p>When home again, Hickes found out that Janet had, in fact, already been released: “…I made all inquiry I could [about] what had become of her, and how she came to obtain her liberty; but I could not get any further account of her, which made me suspect that she was the child of some person of honour and quality, for which sake all things were hushed.”</p><p>The mystery is where Janet went after Edinburgh. There is no record to indicate if she returned to her native home, or journeyed to England, or sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.
Of all the Scots who have claimed to posses Second Sight, few are more puzzling than the young Janet Douglas. </p><img style="height: 1px !important; width: 0px !important;" onload="processPage()" src="/static/images/other-images/1px.png"></section>
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