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There is a haunted room at Walton Abbey frequented by a spectre known as 'The Headless Nun of Walton.' The popular belief is that this is the unquiet spirit of a transgressing nun of the twelfth century, but some affirm it to be that of a lady brutally beheade
Read record →It is much the same in this country, and Mr
Read record →Lady Wilde[157] has given a laughable specimen of the headless ghost as believed in by the Irish peasantry
Read record →Connected also with the legend of the headless ghost is the old belief that persons prior to their death occasionally appear to their friends without their heads
Read record →In Bohemia there is a popular tradition that if the first butterfly a man sees in the spring-time is a white one, he is destined to die within the year
Read record →tion has been sufficiently prevalent to make such a practice a source of power or of profit, and nations--the most polished as well as the most barbarous--have admitted the claims of persons who professed to be able to control spirits
Read record →The incantation is successful, but Darius assures his friends that exit from below is far from easy, and that the subterranean gods are far more willing to take than to let go
Read record →It was from the ghosts that he obtained replies to questions concerning events passing at a distance, or yet to happen, which might be of interest or moment to his tribe
Read record →In days gone by, it would seem, numerous formalities were observed by the person whose object was to 'constrain' some spirit to appear before him
Read record →The mode of procedure as practised in Scotland was thus
Read record →In Wraxall's 'Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna'[168] there is an amusing account of the raising of the ghost of the Chevalier de Saxe
Read record →Whilst this incantation was going on, crumbs of bread mixed with pins were strewn on the ground, the lads meanwhile tramping round in the circle with a heavy tread
Read record →In his amusing account of the art of 'laying' ghosts, published in the last century, Grose tells us 'a ghost may be laid for any term less than a hundred years, and in any place or body, full or empty; as a solid oak, the pommel of a sword, a barrel of beer, i
Read record →This curious ceremony seems to have been adopted by the Highland police, with the intention of laying Mr
Read record →The idea of water as a barrier against ghosts has given rise to many strange customs, some of which Mr
Read record →And 'in many parts of Germany, in modern Greece, and in Cyprus, water is poured out behind the corpse when it is carried from the house, in the belief that if the ghost returns he will not be able to cross it.'[181] A Danish tradition says, 'If a person dies w
Read record →A favourite mode of capturing a ghost in days gone by was to entice it into something small, such as a bottle, and as a decoy, to doubt its power to do so--a mode of exorcism which would seem to have suggested our 'bottle-imps.' An amusing story of laying a gh
Read record →'Just as the clock struck twelve, he was roused by a slight noise, and lo!
Read record →This cunning mode of laying a ghost is very old, and reminds us of the amusing story of the fisherman and the genie in the Arabian Nights
Read record →In Wales, the objectionable spectre must be conjured in the name of Heaven to depart, and return no more, the strength of the exorcism being doubled by employing the Latin language to deliver it, which, to be perfectly effectual, must be done by three clergyme
Read record →Candles have generally played an important part in the ceremony of ghost laying, one popular idea being that ghosts have no power by candlelight
Read record →Miss Jackson also tells[187] how 'Squire Blount's ghost' long haunted Kinlet Hall, because his daughter had married a page-boy
Read record →But sometimes, when the candles burn out their time, it is an indication that none of the party can lay the ghost, as happened in the case of a certain Dartmoor vicar's unquiet spirit described by Mr
Read record →After a long absence he returned, having witnessed many horrible sights which he refused to relate
Read record →Another curious account of laying a ghost is connected with Spedlin's Tower, which stands on the south-west bank of the Annan
Read record →Then there is the ghost of 'Madam Pigott,' once the terror of Chetwynd and Edgmond
Read record →William Nuttall, in a ballad entitled 'Sir Roland and Clegg Hall Boggart,' makes Sir Roland murder the children in bed with a dagger
Read record →With this idea of sacrifice as necessary for laying ghosts may be mentioned the apparition of a servant at Waddow Hall, known as 'Peg o' Nell.' On one occasion, the story goes, she had a quarrel with the lord or lady of Waddow Hall, who, in a fit of anger, wis
Read record →At Beoley, Worcestershire, at the commencement of the present century, the ghost of a reputed murderer managed to keep undisputed possession of a certain house, until a conclave of clergymen chained him to the Red Sea for fifty years
Read record →Soon after five I stepped over the stile into the disturbed field, and had not gone above thirty or forty paces when the ghost appeared at the further stile
Read record →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
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