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ime has been duly expiated, not only is the spirit supposed to be kept from its desired rest, but it flits about the haunts of the living, that, by its unearthly molestation, it may compel them to make every possible reparation for the cruel wrong done
Read record →The following tale is told of a haunted hill in the country of the Assiniboins
Read record →At times they are said to pinch persons while asleep both black and blue, such spots being designated ghost-spots, or ghost-pinches
Read record →Many West Indian quays were thought to be the haunts of ghosts of murdered men; and Sir Walter Scott tells how the Buccaneers occasionally killed a Spaniard or a slave, and buried him with their spirits, under the impression that his ghost would haunt the spot
Read record →In most parts of the world similar tales are recorded, and are as readily believed as when they were first told centuries ago
Read record →In this country, many an old mansion has its haunted room, in which the unhappy spirit of the murdered person is supposed, on certain occasions, to appear
Read record →The ghost of Lady Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, who always appears in white, carrying her child in her arms, has long been, as Mr
Read record →Donart's Castle, on the southern coast of Glamorganshire, has its favourite ghost, that of Lady Stradling, who is said to have been murdered by one of her family
Read record →Sullivan, in his 'Cumberland and Westmoreland,' relates how, some years ago, a spectre appeared to a man who lived at Henhow Cottage, Martindale
Read record →During the night, the latter appeared to his fellow-traveller, imploring his help, as the innkeeper was plotting his death; the sleeper sprang up in alarm, but thinking the vision of no importance, he went to sleep again
Read record →Of the many curious cases recorded of a murder being discovered through the ghost of the murdered person, may be quoted one told in Aubrey's 'Miscellanies.' It appears that on Monday, April 14, 1690, William Barwick was walking with his wife close to Cawood Ca
Read record →In 'Ackerman's Repository' for November 1820, there is an account of a person being tried on the pretended evidence of a ghost
Read record →It is a German belief that the soul of one who has died on shipboard passes into a bird, and when seen at any time it is supposed to announce the death of another person
Read record →Where a spirit has been exorcised, it is only through the most frightful swamps and morasses that it ascends, first beginning under the earth with the cry of 'Rok!
Read record →and certain North American Indian tribes maintain that the souls of their chiefs take the form of small woodbirds.[96] Among the Abipones of Paraguay we are told of a peculiar kind of little ducks which fly in flocks at night-time, uttering a mournful tone, an
Read record →There must have been great numbers of them, as they were also observed at the same time in the counties of Northampton, Leicester, and Lincoln
Read record →Stories of disembodied souls appearing as birds are very numerous
Read record →They were the spirits of the mother and child, and the Indians would gather about the tree on which they were perched with reverential love, and worship them as the spirit of the woman and child.[103] There is Lord Lyttelton's well-known ghost story, and the b
Read record →Thus, in Cornwall, it is a very popular fancy that when a young woman who has loved not wisely but too well dies forsaken and broken-hearted, she comes back to haunt her deceiver in the form of a white hare.[106] This phantom pursues the false one everywhere,
Read record →Sometimes the spirit in animal form is that of a wicked person doomed to wear that shape for some offence
Read record →and amongst others was not only guilty of unnatural cruelty to her only daughter, but had a mysterious knack of getting rid of her husbands, having been married no less than four times
Read record →Within the parish of Tring, Hertford, a poor old woman was drowned in 1751 for suspected witchcraft
Read record →Occasionally, when loss of life has happened through an accident, a spectre animal of some kind has been afterwards seen
Read record →It does not belong to any species of living dogs, but is severally said to represent a hound, a setter, a terrier, or a shepherd dog, though often larger than a Newfoundland.'[117] It is commonly supposed to be a bad spirit, haunting places where evil deeds ha
Read record →In the neighbourhood of Leeds there is the Padfoot, a weird apparition about the size of a small donkey, 'with shaggy hair and large eyes like saucers.' Mr
Read record →In Wales, there is the Gwyllgi, or 'dog of darkness,' a terrible spectre of a mastiff which, with a baleful breath and blazing red eyes, has often inspired terror even amongst the strong-minded Welsh peasantry
Read record →It is a popular belief in Wales that horses have the peculiar 'gift' of seeing spectres, and carriage horses have been known to display every sign of the utmost terror when the occupants of the carriage could see no cause for alarm
Read record →They are often heard though seldom seen, 'and seem to be passing along simply in the air, as if in hot pursuit of their prey'; and when they appear to hang over a house, then death or misfortune may shortly be expected
Read record →Yarrell has long ago explained, this mysterious noise is caused by bean-geese, which, coming southwards in large flocks on the approach of winter--partly from Scotland and its islands, but chiefly from Scandinavia--choose dark nights for their migration, and u
Read record →Another form of spectre animal is the kirk-grim, which is believed to haunt many churches
Read record →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
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