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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 125
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Then there is the ghost of 'Madam Pigott,' once the terror of Chetwynd and Edgmond

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Then there is the ghost of 'Madam Pigott,' once the terror of Chetwynd and Edgmond. Twelve of the neighbouring clergy were summoned to lay her by incessantly reading psalms till they had succeeded in making her obedient to their power. 'Mr. Foy, curate of Edgmond,' says Miss Jackson,[191] 'has the credit of having accomplished this, for he continued reading after all the others were exhausted.' But, 'ten or twelve years after his death, some fresh alarm of Madam Pigott arose, and a party went in haste to beg a neighbouring rector to come and lay the ghost; and to this day Chetwynd Hall has the reputation of being haunted.' It is evident that 'laying a ghost' was far from an easy task. A humorous anecdote is told[192] of a haunted house at Homersfield, in Suffolk, where an unquiet spirit so worried and harassed the inmates that they sent for a parson. On his arrival he commenced reading a prayer, but instantly the ghost got a line ahead of him.

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