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There seems to be little limit, short of grievous bodily injury--and even that limit has occasionally been…

Date of account: Published 1911
Source: Byways of Ghost-Land
Reference: Byways of Ghost-Land · selected passage 21
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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There seems to be little limit, short of grievous bodily injury--and even that limit has occasionally been overstepped--to poltergeist hooliganism

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There seems to be little limit, short of grievous bodily injury--and even that limit has occasionally been overstepped--to poltergeist hooliganism. Last summer the Rev. Henry Hacon, M.A., of Searly Vicarage, North Kelsey Moor, very kindly sent me an original manuscript dealing with poltergeist disturbances of a very peculiar nature, at the old Syderstone Parsonage near Fakenham. I published the account _ad verbum_ in a work of mine that appeared the ensuing autumn, entitled _Ghostly Phenomena_, and the interest it created encourages me to refer to other cases dealing with the same kind of phenomena.

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