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These are the chief mythological monsters, thus rapidly enumerated, but other creatures, half-human, half-animal, are of greater interest psychologically
Read record →ce of the Mer-king, her father, but when she reaches years of discretion she visits the earth and falls in love with a handsome prince, forsaking her home and family and giving away her beautiful voice for love of him
Read record →The story of Crishna is very similar to that of Hercules in Grecian mythology, the serpent forming a prominent feature in both
Read record →Then the serpent asked his mother to go back to the palace and fetch the king's daughter, and this time the king told the princess she must marry the serpent
Read record →Otto Stoll, author of "Suggestion und Hypnotismus,"[119] showed a friendly Cakchiquel Indian one of his hairs under the microscope
Read record →One evening in midsummer he beholds a fair maiden, who says she is the daughter of an Eastern king and has been forced to spend her life through enchantment in the form of a white snake, with permission to resume human shape on midsummer night every quarter of
Read record →A beautiful girl in New Guinea was beloved by a chief of a strange tribe, and he was so fearful of entering her father's territory that he asked a sorcerer for a charm which would enable him to change into a snake the moment he crossed the boundary of his own
Read record →The French have several variants of the story of St
Read record →The lady was living with her father about 1840 in an ancient country-house which he had rented from an elderly heiress
Read record →Train, in his "Account of the Isle of Man,"[135] "a fairy of uncommon beauty exerted such undue influence over the male population, that by her sweet voice she induced numbers to follow her footsteps till by degrees she led them into the sea, where they perish
Read record →In German folk-lore the magpie is a bird of the infernal regions, now changing herself into a witch, or sometimes turning herself into the steed or broomstick on which the witch rides to the Sabbath
Read record →A very similar story is told by Charles Swynnerton in "Romantic Tales from the Panjab, with Indian Nights' Entertainment,"[138] about Prince Bairam and his fairy bride
Read record →Then she falls in love with the Prince, who has purposely hidden her dove-skin, and marries him
Read record →One of the first members of the family to see the apparition was the famous John Oxenham, a young man of twenty-two, who was taken ill in the vigour of his youth, a great strapping fellow six foot and a half in height, well built, of comely countenance and of
Read record →No sooner was John Oxenham in his grave than the apparition showed itself to Thomasine, wife of James Oxenham, who died on the seventh of September, 1635
Read record →People shook their heads and said this phantom swan boded the family no good, and their prognostications came true, for though the swan with the bleeding breast came more rarely than the others had done, every time it appeared it heralded misfortune
Read record →In one family a little white dog appears to give warning that a death is about to occur
Read record →As both door and window were closed she could not understand how he had got in, but when she started up to put him out she could no longer see him
Read record →Another family in the east of England has a tradition that the appearance of a black dog portends the death of one of its members
Read record →The Lambtons were haunted for nine generations by a horrible snake or worm which brought much evil in its train
Read record →At this time, Lord William of Hapton Tower (a member of the Townley family) was a suitor for Lady Sybil's hand, but his proposals did not meet with her approval
Read record →After remaining in the same attitude for what seemed to me an incalculably long time, it gradually receded, and assuming, all of a sudden, a horizontal attitude, passed head first through the wall opposite to where I sat
Read record →rieking at the top of my voice, I flew, and my wild cries for help being overheard by some of my friends, who chanced to be returning home that way, they at once came to my assistance
Read record →I was so unnerved by this incident that it was only after a series of severe mental efforts that I could persuade myself to make a thorough examination of the room, and so satisfy myself that what I had seen was in all probability the result of my imagination
Read record →The Celtic word Banshee, meaning the woman of the barrow, may in all probability account for the popular idea that whenever a member of one of the old Irish clans dies, their doom is foretold (to any or every member of the family but themselves) by a series of
Read record →I entered the house with a perfectly unbiassed mind; indeed, the thought that it might be haunted never for one moment entered my mind
Read record →I subsequently heard from two entirely independent sources that an apparition had been seen on the site of the house some years previously
Read record →gazine" last year, I described how, on certain nights in the year (New Year's Eve for example), I have seen the phantasms of people destined to play some more or less important rôle in my subsequent life
Read record →I laughingly told him I should be very pleased to see his ghost, and that I would do all I could to make it feel thoroughly at home
Read record →The moonbeams, falling direct on their faces, rendered both features and expressions clearly visible, and as I gazed into their eyes and recognised the intensity of their evil natures, my soul sickened--they were plotting to murder me
Read record →ight, there was an abrupt pause--two priests, with knit brows and glittering eyes, glided up to a girl, and, placing a hand on each of her arms, led her despairingly away, the crowd showing their approval of the act by shaking their fists in the poor wretch's
Read record →"I fell asleep, and remained so for an hour or more, when I suddenly awoke with a great jerk, and found confronting me the most awful apparition you can imagine
Read record →er heard of anything supernatural in connection with the V----'s house, yet my grandmother told me she felt a sense of the most acute discomfort the minute she entered her friends' house
Read record →They went to bed and to sleep, but not for long
Read record →Very probably the Elemental was attracted to the house in the first instance by some crime committed there, or it may even have been attracted to the soil prior to the building of the house
Read record →It had both attics and cellars, and in one of the attics there was a bloodstain, due, so I was told, to a murder of a particularly horrible nature, that had once been perpetrated there, and on account of which the house was reputed to be haunted
Read record →There are instances I know--though I cannot at present recall one--where people have seen and entered phantom houses, just as sailors have witnessed the phenomenon of the phantom ship--which I have heard has been seen again comparatively recently off the North
Read record →A case of a haunting with a purpose was related to me recently by a Mrs
Read record →Miss Viola Vincent, a well-known Society beauty, has furnished me with an account of a house presumably haunted by a Phantasm of the Dead
Read record →I think it is highly probable that the apparition of the old man, at any rate, was a phantasm of the dead, that is to say, the earth-bound spirit of the murderer; for despite the tendency there is nowadays for pseudo-humanitarians to sympathise with the perpet
Read record →Miss Dalrymple did not have any further experiences there herself, but some time afterwards one of her great-nieces remarked to her, "Did you know, auntie, 'The Lichens' was haunted?" and went on to say that on one occasion, when going upstairs, she had seen t
Read record →Very possibly an old man had been murdered there by his paramour, who, after cutting up his body, had bribed a tramp to dispose of it, in which case the house would, of course, be haunted by the earth-bound spirits of both the victim and agents of the crime
Read record →A haunting of a similar nature occurred quite recently at a house near Leeds
Read record →"To my husband's astonishment the Howards were wildly excited, and told him that the legend connected with the house (and which they believed was only known to one or two people besides themselves) tallied detail for detail with the vision he had just witnesse
Read record →Carmichael's turn to be amazed, and she readily agreed to go with them to the house to see if she could find the well she had seen in her vision
Read record →An account of another interesting dream has been sent me by Miss Featherstone, several of whose other psychic experiences I have already related
Read record →Since after every precaution had been taken to guard against the possibility of trickery, the disturbances still continued, and were heard collectively, there can be little doubt they were superphysical
Read record →I had had no definite information as to the nature of the hauntings, so that I came to the house with a perfectly unbiassed mind, and under conditions that excluded any possibility of suggestion
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