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Now the reader has by this time become well acquainted with an object having the character of a talisman of abundance and rejuvenation in Celtic myth
Read record →arth, toilers in the field and in the forest, who render with simple directness, in tales or charms, their impressions of natural or supernatural forces with which their own lives are environed
Read record →Son of Fachtna and Nessa, proclaimed King of Ulster in preference to Fergus, 180; Cuchulain brought up at court of, 183; grants arms of manhood to Cuchulain, 185; while at a feast on Strand of the Footprints he descries Connla, 190; his ruse to put Cuchulain u
Read record →59; Dermot of the Love Spot, friend of, 261; weds Grania, 261; Oisīn, son of, 261; Geena mac Luga, one of the men of, 262; teaches the maxims of the Fianna to mac Luga, 262, 263; Murna, the mother of, 266; Bran and Skolawn, hounds of, 266-269; weds Saba, 267;
Read record →Strange adventures of Maeldūn and his companions on wonderful, 312-331; of the Slayer, 313; of the Ants, 313; of the Great Birds, 313; of the Fierce Beast, 314; of the Giant Horses, 314; of the Stone Door, 314; of the Apples, 315; of the Wondrous Beast, 315; o
Read record →She affirms that the Banshee attaches itself not only to certain families of historic lineage, but also to persons gifted with song and music
Read record →At the most, Mr McAnnaly can only speak with certainty of the comparatively few cases of Banshees that have come under his observation; there are, I think, scores of which he has never even heard
Read record →Amongst the most popular cases of Banshee haunting both published and unpublished is that related by Ann, Lady Fanshawe, in her Memoirs
Read record →The Kenealy Banshee furnishes yet another instance of this extremely fascinating and, up to the present, wholly enigmatical type of haunting
Read record →But what will, I am sure, be of considerable interest to you is the fact that this branch of the O'Neills, the branch to which I belong, is haunted by a Banshee, and that that Banshee has, I believe--since the description of it given me by various members of m
Read record →To begin with, the R----s were Anglo-Irish
Read record →That is the gist of the incident as related by Mr Le Fanu, and I have quoted it merely to show how a case of this kind, especially when it happens in Ireland, and to a family that has for some time been associated with Ireland, may sometimes be mistaken for a
Read record →Lady Wilde in her "Ancient Cures, Charms and Usages of Ireland," pp
Read record →There was now, Menzies thought, a certain indistinctness and a something shadowy about her that he had not at first noticed, and he was thinking how he could test her to see if she were really a substance or merely an optical illusion, when O'Hara, who was get
Read record →Another case of dual Banshee haunting that occurs to me, took place in Spain, where so many of the oldest Irish families have settled, and was related to me by a distant connection of mine--an O'Donnell
Read record →Ralph and O'Flanagan were so struck by her appearance that for some seconds they could only stand gaping at her, deprived of all power of speech
Read record →completely lost his nerve, and would have called out, had not both figures suddenly vanished, their disappearance being immediately followed by the most agonising, heart-rending screams, intermingled with loud laughter and diabolical chuckling, which, for the
Read record →That night, though the room he was given was quite bright and cheerful, and very different from the one he had occupied the night before, his mind was so full of grim apprehension that he found it quite impossible to sleep
Read record →He was thus occupied, half standing and half leaning against the framework of the glass door, when the harping abruptly ceased, and he heard moanings and sobbings as of a woman suffering from paroxysms of the most intense and violent grief
Read record →Talking of phantom music, there is a widespread belief among Celtic races that whenever it is heard proceeding from the sea, either a death or some other great calamity is prognosticated
Read record →No country besides Ireland possesses a Banshee, though some countries possess a family or national ghost somewhat resembling it
Read record →In this account it will be noticed that there is no mention of sex, so that the reader can only speculate as to whether the apparition was the ghost of a man or a woman
Read record →In Denmark and Sweden the likeness between the family ghost and the Banshee is decidedly pronounced
Read record →ugh; they occasionally tap on the window-panes, or play on the harp; they sometimes haunt in pairs, a kind spirit and an evilly disposed one attending the fortunes of the same family; and they keep exclusively to the very oldest families
Read record →distinction of an attendant spirit, who performed the office of the Irish Banshee," and he particularly referred to the ghostly cries and lamentations which foreboded death to members of the Clan of MacLean of Lochbery
Read record →The Bodach au Dun, or Ghost of the Hills, which haunts the family of Grant Rothiemurcus, and the Llam-dearg, or spectre of the Bloody Hand, which pursues the fortunes of the Clan Kinchardine
Read record →Mr Ingram, in his "Haunted Houses and Family Legends," quotes several well authenticated instances of manifestations by this apparition, the last occurring, according to him, in the year 1899, though I have heard from other reliable sources that it has been he
Read record →Other Highland families that possess special ghosts are a branch of the Macdonnells, that have a phantom piper, whose mournful piping invariably means that some member or other of the clan is shortly doomed to die; and the Stanleys who have a female apparition
Read record →Then, again, there is the Bodach Glas, or dark grey man, in reference to which Mr Henderson, in his "Folk-lore of Northern Countries," p
Read record →Then, again, there is the white hand of the Squires of Worcestershire, a family that is now practically extinct
Read record →Mr Sikes gives a very graphic description of the appearance of this apparition to a peasant farmer near Cardiff, a little over forty years ago
Read record →Another well-known Welsh haunting that may be relegated to the same class of phenomena as the corpse candles is that of the Stradling Ghost
Read record →It was night; without the house everything was still and calm; within the aged watcher was seated close beside the sick man's bed, the head of which had been placed near the window, so that the sufferer could, in the daylight, steal a glimpse at the fields and
Read record →At this, the old watcher, who was now getting nervous, arose and went into the next room, and asked those assembled there if they had heard anything
Read record →His speech was of very short duration, but it was hardly over, before a loud rapping of high-heeled shoes sounded on the stone steps, and a number of women, dressed in every conceivable fashion, from the quaintly picturesque costume of the Middle Ages to the s
Read record →I did not know, for instance, that once, when my youngest sister, who was a little older than I, was passing along that passage I so much dreaded, she heard, close beside her, a short, sharp laugh, or chuckle, and so expressive of hatred and derision, that the
Read record →I had gone to bed early, and had been sleeping for some time, when I was awakened about two o'clock by a loud noise, for which I could not account, and which reverberated in my ears for fully half a minute
Read record →There, looking over the rails at the top of the stairway, was an object so horrible that I shudder when I think of it even now
Read record →In 1840 I became acquainted with Dr
Read record →Near the close of the seance, the lady who sat next the cabinet said there was a form present who gave the name of "Maggie Brackett." She would not be certain about the first name, as the form was very weak and spoke in a whisper
Read record →If I was disappointed in the first form, I was doubly so in this
Read record →What claimed to be my niece came to me in a very beautiful illuminated dress
Read record →At a Thursday afternoon seance, held last spring, she came out very lively; and after a cordial greeting I said, "You are feeling strong to-day; can you not do something to interest us?" She hesitated a moment; then leading me into the middle of the room, look
Read record →Fay's seance with some friends from New Bedford and Cincinnati
Read record →6, 1885, previous to the seance, Mrs
Read record →She returned to the cabinet, and many forms came out and were recognized
Read record →Fay stepped behind the curtain, Auntie came out, fully materialized, greeting me cordially, shaking hands with me, and expressing pleasure at meeting me; then, in a clear and forcible manner, discussed the question of the proposed seance, going freely into det
Read record →but it is not easy to understand how any intelligent investigator, who has given the subject any considerable attention, should come to the conclusion that the forms are automatons, and that our friends from the other side never take possession, or control the
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