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I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64

Date of account: Late nineteenth-century compilation
Source: The Ghost World
Reference: The Ghost World · selected passage 85
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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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 the adventure) of the enchantment of the king's daughter, and of the mode of liberating her. There is the Belludo, a Spanish ghost mentioned by Washington Irving in his 'Tales of the Alhambra.' It issues forth in the dead of night, and scours the avenues of the Alhambra, and the streets of Granada, in the shape of a headless horse, pursued by six hounds, with terrible yellings and howlings. It is said to be the spirit of a Moorish king, who killed his six sons, who, in revenge, hunt him in the shape of hounds at night-time.

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