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Local tradition still tells us that 'Madam Dudley's ghost did use to walk in Cumnor Park, and that it walked so obstinately, that it took no less than nine parsons from Oxford "to lay her." That they at last laid her in a pond, called "Madam Dudley's Pond," an
Read record →On reaching the island of Sein, the invisible passengers are numbered by unseen hands, after which the wondering, awestruck sailors return to await in readiness the next supernatural summons
Read record →Among Maine fishermen there are similar stories of the ghost of the drowned being seen
Read record →e of something heavy on his limbs, and there being a faint light in the room, could see, as he thought, distinctly the figure of his brother, who was at that time in the same service in the East Indies, dressed in his uniform, and stretched across the bed
Read record →Similarly the Siamese dreads the Pnük, or water spirit, that seizes unwary bathers, and drags them underneath the water; and the Sioux Indians tell how men have been drowned by Unktahe, the water demon
Read record →Thorpe[205] tells how 'in Fyer there was a woman who was born on a Sunday, and, like other Sunday children, had the faculty of seeing much that was hidden from others
Read record →Such family forewarnings of death are of a most varied description, and are still said to be of frequent occurrence
Read record →Reference is made elsewhere to the apparition of the Black Friar, the evil genius of the Byrons, supposed to forebode misfortune to the member of the family to whom it appeared, and Mr
Read record →She is regarded as the ancestress of the race, 'shows herself always in snow white garments, carries a bunch of keys at her side, and sometimes rocks and watches over the children at night when their nurses sleep.' The earliest instance of this apparition was
Read record →As he said, so it happened, for the unlucky man shortly afterwards died
Read record →The power of seeing things invisible to others is commonly known as 'second sight,' a peculiarity which the ancient Gaels called 'shadow sight.' The subject has, for many years past, excited popular interest, and demanded the attention even of our learned men
Read record →In defining 'second sight' as a singular faculty 'of seeing an otherwise invisible object without any previous means used by the person that beholds it for that end,' we are at once confronted with the well-known axiom that 'a man cannot be in two places at on
Read record →Accounts differ largely respecting the faculty of 'second sight.' Some make it hereditary, and according to an account communicated to Aubrey from a gentleman at Strathspey, some of the seers acknowledged the possibility of teaching it
Read record →Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen.' 'At the Literary Club,' says Boswell, 'before Johnson came in, we talked of his "Journey to the Western Islands," and of his coming away "willing to believe the 'second sight,'" which seemed to excite s
Read record →There is the well-known Beresford ghost tale, about which so many accounts have been given
Read record →Grant, in her 'Superstitions of the Highlands,' tells how a widow, returning home through a wood at dusk, was met by her husband's ghost, 'who led her carefully along a difficult bridge, but left a blue mark on her wrist which the neighbours had opportunities
Read record →'The former was towards evening driving across a long barren heath
Read record →the biography of William Smellie is the history of a compact he made with his friend William Greenlaw, whereby it was mutually agreed that whoever died first should return and give the other an account of his condition after death
Read record →Mines have long been supposed to be haunted, a fact which is no cause of wonderment, considering the many unearthly sounds--such as 'the dripping of water down the shafts, the tunnelling of distant passages, the rumbling of trains from some freshly-exploded lo
Read record →So convinced are they that this is so, that, whenever they see the wool of a sheep's side tinged with yellow, they think it has acquired that colour from having lain above the gold of the mine
Read record →And they say that if a man will listen on a still night about these shafts, he may hear the ghosts of them at work, knocking and picking, as clear as if there was a man at work in the next level.' In some districts the knockers are designated 'the buccas,' and
Read record →The Northern mines were supposed to be haunted by two goblins
Read record →The mysterious apparition of a woman who committed suicide was supposed to haunt Polbreen Mine, Cornwall, locally known as 'Dorcas.' She appeared to take a malicious delight in tormenting the miner when at work, calling him by his name, and enticing him from h
Read record →On the Continent, similar tales of phantoms haunting mines are current
Read record →French mines are haunted, and many tales are told of a spectral hare which at times is seen
Read record →The name of the Banshee 'is variously pronounced Banshi and Benshee, being translated by different scholars, the "Female Fairy," the "Woman of Peace," the "Lady of Death," the "Angel of Death," the "White Lady of Sorrow," the "Nymph of the Air," and the "Spiri
Read record →Thus, in different instances, the Banshee's song may be inspired by different motives
Read record →She added that a niece of Miss Sheridan's made her very angry by observing that as Mrs
Read record →In a 'New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors' (1761) the writer says: 'I look upon sailors to care as little of what becomes of themselves as any people under the sun; yet no people are so much terrified at the thoughts of an apparition
Read record →In 'Mélusine' for September 1884,[245] it is stated that, 'in many localities in Lower Brittany, stories are current of a huge ship manned by giant human forms and dogs
Read record →Occasionally a spectre ship is seen at Cap d'Espoir, in the Gulf of St
Read record →Dennys, in his 'Folk-lore of China,' gives a novel variety of the phantom ship
Read record →One of the chief features of many of these phantom-ship stories is the idea of retribution for evil deeds, as in the following, told by Irving in the 'Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost.' A certain Ramnout van Dam had 'danced and drank until midnight--Saturday--whe
Read record →Turning to our own country, similar phantom vessels have long been supposed to haunt the coast, and Mr
Read record →Scotch sailors have their stories of phantom ships
Read record →says,[251] 'innumerable are the reports of accidents unto such as frequent the seas, as fishermen and sailors, who discourse of noises, flashes, shadows, echoes, and other things, nightly seen or heard upon the waters.' Brand,[252] for instance, narrates an am
Read record →Occasionally, the ghost of a former captain is supposed to visit a vessel and to warn the crew of an approaching storm
Read record →Another curious phantom warning to sailors seen in years gone by was the 'Hooper,' or the 'Hooter,' of Sennen Cove, Cornwall
Read record →But sailors' yarns are so proverbially remarkable that the reader must estimate their value for himself, not forgetting how large a factor in their production is the imagination, worked upon by nervous credulity and superstitious fear, a striking instance of w
Read record →It is the familiar dress worn in lifetime that is, in most cases, one of the distinguishing features of the ghost, and when Sir George Villiers wanted to give a warning to his son, the Duke of Buckingham, his spirit appeared to one of the duke's servants 'in t
Read record →Daniel de Foe, in his 'Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions,' has given many minute details as to the dress of a ghost
Read record →But the fact of ghosts appearing in earthly raiment has excited the ridicule of many philosophers, who, even admitting the possibility of a spiritual manifestation, deny that there can be the ghost of a suit of clothes
Read record →Tylor remarks,[262] 'it is an habitual feature of the ghost stories of the civilised, as of the savage, world, that the ghost comes dressed, and even dressed in well-known clothing worn in life.' And he adds that the doctrine of object-souls is held by the Alg
Read record →Corby Castle, Cumberland, was famous for its 'Radiant Boy;' Peel Castle had its 'Mauthe Doog;' and Dobb Park Lodge was noted for 'the Talking Dog.' Cortachy Castle, the seat of the Earl of Airlie, is noted for its 'Drummer;' and a noted Westmoreland ghost was
Read record →Allanbank, a seat of the Stuarts--a family of Scotch baronets, has long been haunted by 'Pearlin Jean,' one of the most remarkable ghosts in Scotland
Read record →Holland House has had the reputation of being haunted by the spirit of the first Lord Holland; and, in 1860, there was published in 'Notes and Queries,' by the late Edmund Lenthal Swifte, Keeper of the Crown Jewels, the account of a spectral illusion witnessed
Read record →According to Johnson, the 'Old Hummums' was the scene of the 'best accredited ghost story' that he had ever heard, the spirit of a Mr
Read record →Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devonshire, was long said to be haunted by the daughter of a former baron, who bore a child to her own father, afterwards strangling the fruit of their incestuous intercourse; and all kinds of weird noises are heard at Ewshott House, Hamp
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