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 111
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
And 'in many parts of Germany, in modern Greece, and in Cyprus, water is poured out behind the corpse when it is carried from the house, in the belief that if the ghost returns he will not be able to cross it.'[181] A Danish tradition says, 'If a person dies who, it is feared, will reappear, as a preventive let a basin…
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyAnd 'in many parts of Germany, in modern Greece, and in Cyprus, water is poured out behind the corpse when it is carried from the house, in the belief that if the ghost returns he will not be able to cross it.'[181] A Danish tradition says, 'If a person dies who, it is feared, will reappear, as a preventive let a basinful of water be thrown after the corpse when it is carried out'[182] and there will be no further cause of alarm. In Bohemia, after a death, the water-butt is turned upside down, for if the ghost bathe in it, and anyone should happen to drink of it afterwards, he would be a dead man within the year. In Pomerania, after a funeral, no washing is done for some time, lest the dead man should be wet in his grave.
Historical context
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Modern context
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