I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
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I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Bisham Abbey, report says, is haunted by the ghost of Lady Hoby, who treated her son by her first husband so unmercifully, on account of his antipathy to study, that he died
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Hugh Miller, in his 'Schools and Schoolmasters,' says that, while working as a stonemason in a remote part of Scotland, he visited the ruins of Craighouse, a grey fantastic rag of a castle, which the people of the neighbourhood firmly believed to be haunted by
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
e made to remove it, all kinds of unearthly noises are raised in the house, and last until it is restored.[272] Denton Hall has for many years past attracted interest from being inhabited by a spirit known by the names of 'Old Barbery' and 'Silky,' and Waddow
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Several parsonages have had their ghosts
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
The old parsonage at Market, or East, Lavington, near Devizes--now pulled down--was reputed to be haunted by a lady supposed to have been murdered, and, it has been said, a child came also to an untimely end in the house
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Occasionally, churches have been haunted
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
According to a correspondent of the 'Gentleman's Magazine,' a ghost appeared for several years, but very seldom, only in the church porch at Kilncote, Leicestershire
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Indeed, the superstitious fear of places being haunted by ghosts not only led to the abandonment but even destruction of many a dwelling-place, a practice which, amongst uncultured tribes, not only 'served as a check to material prosperity, but became an obsta
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Frazer shows in his interesting paper on the 'Primitive Ghost,' our ancestors knew how to outwit the ghost in its endeavour to find its way back to the house it left at death
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Indeed, it has been the current opinion for centuries that places of burial are haunted with spectres and apparitions
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
There is still a belief that the ghost of the last person watches round the churchyard till another is buried, to whom he delivers his charge
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
According to the Guiana Indians, 'every place is haunted where any have died;' and in Madagascar the ghosts of ancestors are said to hover about their tombs
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
e also supposed to dwell in the bottom of wells and ponds, with which may be compared the many tales current throughout Germany and elsewhere of towns and castles that have been sunk in the water, and are at times visible
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
Carriages were now interspersed with the troops; and everybody knew that no carriages had been, or could be, on the summit of Souter Fell
Read record →I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
With such phantoms may be compared the mock suns, the various appearances of halos and wandering lights, and such a phenomenon as the 'Spectre of the Brocken.' Calmet relates a singular instance at Milan, where some two thousand persons saw, as they supposed,
Read record →The author desires to return thanks for many favors from the Library of Congress, the Geological Survey, and…
The author desires to return thanks for many favors from the Library of Congress, the Geological Survey, and the Smithsonian Institution, and for much courteous assistance and friendly suggestion from the officers and staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology;
Read record →The name has thus an authentic history of 360 years
The name has thus an authentic history of 360 years
Read record →The earliest reference appears to be that of Barton in 1797, on the statement of a gentleman whom he quotes as…
The earliest reference appears to be that of Barton in 1797, on the statement of a gentleman whom he quotes as a valuable authority upon the southern tribes
Read record →Harry Smith, a halfbreed born about 1815, father of the late chief of the East Cherokee, informed the author…
Harry Smith, a halfbreed born about 1815, father of the late chief of the East Cherokee, informed the author that when a boy he had been told by an old woman a tradition of a race of very small people, perfectly white, who once came and lived for some time on
Read record →A treaty was made by which trading methods were regulated, a boundary line between their territory and the…
A treaty was made by which trading methods were regulated, a boundary line between their territory and the English settlements was agreed upon, and an agent was appointed to superintend their affairs
Read record →He drew up for their adoption a scheme of government modeled after the European plan, with the capital at Great…
He drew up for their adoption a scheme of government modeled after the European plan, with the capital at Great Tellico, in Tennessee, the principal medicine man as emperor, and himself as the emperor's secretary
Read record →R Andrew Lewis, who superintended the building of the fort, became convinced that the Cherokee were really…
r Andrew Lewis, who superintended the building of the fort, became convinced that the Cherokee were really friendly to the French, and that all their professions of friendship and assistance were "only to put a gloss on their knavery." The fort was finally com
Read record →They felt that they were, as a nation, being slowly but surely compressed within the contracting coils of the…
They felt that they were, as a nation, being slowly but surely compressed within the contracting coils of the giant anaconda of civilization; yet they held to the vain hope that a spirit of justice and mercy would be born of their helpless condition which woul
Read record →The Cherokee were now so far advanced that further government aid was unnecessary, and that their lands should…
the Cherokee were now so far advanced that further government aid was unnecessary, and that their lands should be allotted and the surplus sold for their benefit, they themselves to be invested with full rights of citizenship in the several states within which
Read record →He was a frontiersman and Indian hater, and the change boded no good to the Cherokee
He was a frontiersman and Indian hater, and the change boded no good to the Cherokee
Read record →Notwithstanding this, they found the whole tribe so strongly opposed to the treaty that their own lives and…
Notwithstanding this, they found the whole tribe so strongly opposed to the treaty that their own lives and property were unsafe
Read record →He was a prophet and reformer as well as a chief
He was a prophet and reformer as well as a chief
Read record →Th Carolina upon the reservation and in the outlying settlements were officially reported to number 1,479
th Carolina upon the reservation and in the outlying settlements were officially reported to number 1,479
Read record →In the other dialects the form is Tsa'lagi'
In the other dialects the form is Tsa'lagi'
Read record →Jeffreys, in 1761, compares this jargon in its uses to the lingua franca of the Levant, and it was evidently by…
Jeffreys, in 1761, compares this jargon in its uses to the lingua franca of the Levant, and it was evidently by the aid of this intertribal medium that De Soto's interpreter from Tampa bay could converse with all the tribes they met until they reached the Miss
Read record →In America, as in other parts of the world, the common necessities of intercommunication have resulted in the…
In America, as in other parts of the world, the common necessities of intercommunication have resulted in the formation of several such mongrel dialects, prevailing, sometimes over wide areas
Read record →Ls in the southern Alleghenies was known to the Spaniards from a very early period, it is probable that more…
ls in the southern Alleghenies was known to the Spaniards from a very early period, it is probable that more thorough exploration of that region will bring to light many evidences of their mining operations
Read record →Series of low pillars of cut stone, arranged in squares as though intended for foundations, a stone-walled…
series of low pillars of cut stone, arranged in squares as though intended for foundations, a stone-walled well, a quarry from which the stone had been procured, a fire pit, and a series of sinks, extending along the stream, in which were found remains of timb
Read record →He participated in the earlier Revolutionary campaigns against the Cherokee, and in 1777 was appointed agent to…
He participated in the earlier Revolutionary campaigns against the Cherokee, and in 1777 was appointed agent to reside at their capital, Echota, and act as a medium in their correspondence with the state governments of North Carolina (including Tennessee) and
Read record →Having thus utilized some thirty-five ready-made characters, to which must be added a dozen or more produced by…
Having thus utilized some thirty-five ready-made characters, to which must be added a dozen or more produced by modification of the same originals, he designed from his own imagination as many more as were necessary to his purpose, making eighty-five in all
Read record →Ned permission from the owners of the land to wash or dig on shares, varying from one-fourth to one-half, and…
ned permission from the owners of the land to wash or dig on shares, varying from one-fourth to one-half, and the proprietor was accustomed to put his slaves to work in the same way along the creek bottoms after the crops had been safely gathered
Read record →To the first class belong the genesis stories, dealing with the creation of the world, the nature of the…
To the first class belong the genesis stories, dealing with the creation of the world, the nature of the heavenly bodies and elemental forces, the origin of life and death, the spirit world and the invisible beings, the ancient monsters, and the hero-gods
Read record →E was recognized, before age had dulled his faculties, as an authority upon all relating to tribal custom, and…
e was recognized, before age had dulled his faculties, as an authority upon all relating to tribal custom, and was an expert in the making of rattles, wands, and other ceremonial paraphernalia
Read record →When the boys came back into the house, she knew their thoughts before they spoke
When the boys came back into the house, she knew their thoughts before they spoke
Read record →When Kana'ti came home at last, he looked around, but could not see Selu anywhere, and asked the boys where was…
When Kana'ti came home at last, he looked around, but could not see Selu anywhere, and asked the boys where was their mother
Read record →The boys then began to get ready for the Wolves, and the Wild Boy--the magician--told his brother what to do
The boys then began to get ready for the Wolves, and the Wild Boy--the magician--told his brother what to do
Read record →So the people still died from the heat, and they went to the Little Men a second time for help
So the people still died from the heat, and they went to the Little Men a second time for help
Read record →When the Sun found her daughter dead, she went into the house and grieved, and the people did not die any more,…
When the Sun found her daughter dead, she went into the house and grieved, and the people did not die any more, but now the world was dark all the time, because the Sun would not come out
Read record →The Sun had been glad when they started to the Ghost country, but when they came back without her daughter she…
The Sun had been glad when they started to the Ghost country, but when they came back without her daughter she grieved and cried, "My daughter, my daughter," and wept until her tears made a flood upon the earth, and the people were afraid the world would be dr
Read record →Ill one if he can possibly avoid it, but will let the animal go by unharmed, believing that the kindred of a…
ill one if he can possibly avoid it, but will let the animal go by unharmed, believing that the kindred of a slain wolf will surely revenge his death, and that the weapon with which the deed is done will be rendered worthless for further shooting until cleaned
Read record →Three varieties of owls are recognized, each under a different name, viz: tskili', the dusky horned owl (Bubo…
Three varieties of owls are recognized, each under a different name, viz: tskili', the dusky horned owl (Bubo virginianus saturatus); u'guku', the barred or hooting owl (Syrnium nebulosum), and wa`huhu', the screech owl (Megascops asio)
Read record →Some others say it was this way: A Blacksnake found a Yellowhammer's nest in a hollow tree, and after…
Some others say it was this way: A Blacksnake found a Yellowhammer's nest in a hollow tree, and after swallowing the young birds, coiled up to sleep in the nest, where the mother bird found him when she came home
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