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Meseemeth that the walls of the hall, and the fair spaces between the pillars, and the beams of pine, and the columns that run aloft, are bright as it were with flaming fire
Read record →According to one popular notion, strange lights of this kind are the spirits of persons who, for some reason, cannot remain quiet
Read record →There is the popular legend of the 'Radiant Boy'--a strange boy with a shining face, who has been seen in certain Lincolnshire houses and elsewhere
Read record →At the commencement of the present century the little village of Black Heddon, near Stamfordham, in Northumberland, was greatly disturbed by an apparition known as 'Silky,' from the nature of her dress
Read record →An old barn situated near Birchen Tower, Hollinwood, which was noted for the apparition of Madame Beswick on dark and wintry nights, at times, it is said, appears to be on fire, a red glare of glowing heat being observable through the loopholes and crevices of
Read record →They are generally dreaded as foreboding a catastrophe, and have given rise to a host of curious stories
Read record →There are various versions of this story, and one formerly current in this country tells how the hovering flame--the cause of terror to many--is the soul of a priest who has been condemned to expiate his vows of perpetual chastity by thus haunting the scenes o
Read record →Popular fancy, too, has long identified phantom lights as being the souls of unbaptized children
Read record →Closely allied with the notion of phantom lights are the strange phosphoric appearances said occasionally to be seen about the dying
Read record →Another form of this superstitious fancy is the corpse-candle, or 'tomb-fire,' which is invariably a death-warning
Read record →With the North American tribes one form of spiritual manifestation is fire; and among the Hurons, a female spirit, who was supposed to cause much of their sickness, appeared like a flame of fire
Read record →Localities where any fatal accident has happened, or murder been committed, are frequently supposed to be haunted by that uncanny apparition known as 'the headless ghost.' Many curious tales are still told by the peasantry of this mysterious spectre, whose wei
Read record →Princess Marie Lichtenstein, in her 'History of Holland House,' tells us that one room of this splendid old mansion is believed to be haunted by Lord Holland, the first of his name, and the chief builder of Holland House
Read record →re is no authority to prove that headless people are unable to speak; on the contrary, a variation of the story of 'The Golden Mountain,' given in a note to the 'Kindermärchen,' relates how a servant without a head informed the fisherman (who was to achieve th
Read record →Strangely enough the same story is told of fields near Bury St
Read record →At Beverley, in Yorkshire, the headless ghost of Sir Joceline Percy drives four headless horses at night, above its streets, passing over a certain house which was said to contain a chest with one hundred nails in it, one of which dropped out every year
Read record →Many spots where suicides have been buried are supposed to be haunted by headless ghosts attired in white grave-clothes
Read record →Referring to spots where murders have taken place, a Shropshire tradition informs us how, at a certain house at Hampton's Wood, near Ellesmere, six illegitimate children were murdered by their parents, and buried in a garden
Read record →There is a haunted room at Walton Abbey frequented by a spectre known as 'The Headless Nun of Walton.' The popular belief is that this is the unquiet spirit of a transgressing nun of the twelfth century, but some affirm it to be that of a lady brutally beheade
Read record →It is much the same in this country, and Mr
Read record →Lady Wilde[157] has given a laughable specimen of the headless ghost as believed in by the Irish peasantry
Read record →Connected also with the legend of the headless ghost is the old belief that persons prior to their death occasionally appear to their friends without their heads
Read record →In Bohemia there is a popular tradition that if the first butterfly a man sees in the spring-time is a white one, he is destined to die within the year
Read record →tion has been sufficiently prevalent to make such a practice a source of power or of profit, and nations--the most polished as well as the most barbarous--have admitted the claims of persons who professed to be able to control spirits
Read record →The incantation is successful, but Darius assures his friends that exit from below is far from easy, and that the subterranean gods are far more willing to take than to let go
Read record →It was from the ghosts that he obtained replies to questions concerning events passing at a distance, or yet to happen, which might be of interest or moment to his tribe
Read record →In days gone by, it would seem, numerous formalities were observed by the person whose object was to 'constrain' some spirit to appear before him
Read record →The mode of procedure as practised in Scotland was thus
Read record →In Wraxall's 'Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna'[168] there is an amusing account of the raising of the ghost of the Chevalier de Saxe
Read record →Whilst this incantation was going on, crumbs of bread mixed with pins were strewn on the ground, the lads meanwhile tramping round in the circle with a heavy tread
Read record →In his amusing account of the art of 'laying' ghosts, published in the last century, Grose tells us 'a ghost may be laid for any term less than a hundred years, and in any place or body, full or empty; as a solid oak, the pommel of a sword, a barrel of beer, i
Read record →This curious ceremony seems to have been adopted by the Highland police, with the intention of laying Mr
Read record →The idea of water as a barrier against ghosts has given rise to many strange customs, some of which Mr
Read record →And 'in many parts of Germany, in modern Greece, and in Cyprus, water is poured out behind the corpse when it is carried from the house, in the belief that if the ghost returns he will not be able to cross it.'[181] A Danish tradition says, 'If a person dies w
Read record →A favourite mode of capturing a ghost in days gone by was to entice it into something small, such as a bottle, and as a decoy, to doubt its power to do so--a mode of exorcism which would seem to have suggested our 'bottle-imps.' An amusing story of laying a gh
Read record →'Just as the clock struck twelve, he was roused by a slight noise, and lo!
Read record →This cunning mode of laying a ghost is very old, and reminds us of the amusing story of the fisherman and the genie in the Arabian Nights
Read record →In Wales, the objectionable spectre must be conjured in the name of Heaven to depart, and return no more, the strength of the exorcism being doubled by employing the Latin language to deliver it, which, to be perfectly effectual, must be done by three clergyme
Read record →Candles have generally played an important part in the ceremony of ghost laying, one popular idea being that ghosts have no power by candlelight
Read record →Miss Jackson also tells[187] how 'Squire Blount's ghost' long haunted Kinlet Hall, because his daughter had married a page-boy
Read record →But sometimes, when the candles burn out their time, it is an indication that none of the party can lay the ghost, as happened in the case of a certain Dartmoor vicar's unquiet spirit described by Mr
Read record →After a long absence he returned, having witnessed many horrible sights which he refused to relate
Read record →Another curious account of laying a ghost is connected with Spedlin's Tower, which stands on the south-west bank of the Annan
Read record →Then there is the ghost of 'Madam Pigott,' once the terror of Chetwynd and Edgmond
Read record →William Nuttall, in a ballad entitled 'Sir Roland and Clegg Hall Boggart,' makes Sir Roland murder the children in bed with a dagger
Read record →With this idea of sacrifice as necessary for laying ghosts may be mentioned the apparition of a servant at Waddow Hall, known as 'Peg o' Nell.' On one occasion, the story goes, she had a quarrel with the lord or lady of Waddow Hall, who, in a fit of anger, wis
Read record →At Beoley, Worcestershire, at the commencement of the present century, the ghost of a reputed murderer managed to keep undisputed possession of a certain house, until a conclave of clergymen chained him to the Red Sea for fifty years
Read record →Soon after five I stepped over the stile into the disturbed field, and had not gone above thirty or forty paces when the ghost appeared at the further stile
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