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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 97
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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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. One of the most graphic illustrations of an incantation for evoking spirits is in connection with the appearance of the shade of Darius in the 'Persæ' of Æschylus, which is very nobly given. After receiving news of the great defeat of her son Xerxes at Salamis, Atossa has prepared the requisite offerings to the dead--milk from a white cow, honey, water from a pure fountain, unadulterated wine, olives, and flowers--and she instructs the ancient counsellors of the deceased king to evoke his shade.

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