Quotes:Duguid, David

Zirkoff, Boris

Duguid, David. A Glasgow painting medium who achieved considerable success in his line. He was a cabinet-maker, who in 1866 found himself possessed of mediumistic faculties. At first an ordinary rapping medium, he soon developed the power of painting and drawing in the dark. These drawings, generally copies of Dutch masters, purporting to be by the original artists, are said to have been of some merit. His two principal “controls” were supposed to be Ruysdael and Steen. In 1869 control of the medium’s organism was taken by Hafed, prince of Persia at the beginning of the Christian era, and Archmagus. Hafed related his many adventures through Duguid, including his death in the arena at Rome. These accounts were published as *Hafed, Prince of Persia (Ed. by H. Nisbet. London, 1876, 8vo.).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 646