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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 109
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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This curious ceremony seems to have been adopted by the Highland police, with the intention of laying Mr

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This curious ceremony seems to have been adopted by the Highland police, with the intention of laying Mr. Rose's ghost--an object which, according to tradition, might be attained by burying his boots under water. The expedient resorted to by the Highland police was founded not upon any inadequate estimate of the powers of ghosts, but upon an intimate knowledge of their likes and dislikes. They are known to entertain a strong objection to water, an antipathy which is sufficiently strong to make them shun a spot on which water is to be found; in fact, as Mr. Hunt writes,[175] spirits are supposed to be unable to cross water.

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