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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
Read record →Powis Castle had once its ghost, and Cullaby Castle, Northumberland, the seat of Major A
Read record →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 →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 →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 →Several parsonages have had their ghosts
Read record →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 →Occasionally, churches have been haunted
Read record →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 →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 →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 →Indeed, it has been the current opinion for centuries that places of burial are haunted with spectres and apparitions
Read record →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 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
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