Premonitions of the Titanic Disaster av Terry Keefe

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<i>Passengers cancelling their tickets for </i><b>Titanic</b><i>¿s maiden voyage out of apprehension; a famous social reformer who died on </i><b>Titanic</b><i>, warned in 1911 that he would be in danger from water in April 1912; inhabitants of the remote islands of Fiji aware of the sinking before reports of the collision reached the Pacific; a dying girl who, on 14 April 1912, ¿sees¿ a big ship sinking in the water and mysteriously knows the name of the violinist in </i><b>Titanic</b><i>¿s orchestra.</i> These are just a few of the numerous claims to psychic foreknowledge of the ship''s sinking.<div><br></div><div>Within days of the widely-publicised disaster of 1912, stories began circulating of extraordinary omens and individuals who supposedly had supernatural premonitions of the disaster. Furthermore, four fictional works ¿ one dating as far back as twenty-six years ¿ came to be seen as anticipating the disaster. </div><div><br></div><div>Between 1960 and 2006, five major comment