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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 142
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Thorpe[205] tells how 'in Fyer there was a woman who was born on a Sunday, and, like other Sunday children, had the faculty of seeing much that was hidden from others

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Thorpe[205] tells how 'in Fyer there was a woman who was born on a Sunday, and, like other Sunday children, had the faculty of seeing much that was hidden from others. But, because of this property, she could not pass by the church at night without seeing a hearse or a spectre. The gift became a perfect burden to her; she therefore sought the advice of a man skilled in such matters, who directed her, whenever she saw a spectre, to say, "Go to Heaven!" but when she met a hearse, "Hang on!" Happening some time after to meet a hearse, she, through lapse of memory, cried out, "Go to Heaven!" and straightway the hearse rose in the air and vanished. Afterwards meeting a spectre, she said to it, "Hang on!" when the spectre clung round her neck, hung on her back, and drove her down into the earth before it.

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