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 149
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
As he said, so it happened, for the unlucky man shortly afterwards died
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyAs he said, so it happened, for the unlucky man shortly afterwards died. 'This is the ground-work,' adds Mr. Lang, 'of the old Breton ballad of "Le Sieur Nann," who died after his intrigue with the forest spectre!' A version of the ballad is printed by De la Villemarque, Barzaz-Breiz (i. 41), and variants exist in Swedish, French, and even in a Lowland Scotch version, sung by children in a kind of dancing game.[218] Another story quoted by Mr. Lang tells how, in 1860, a Maneroo black fellow died in the service of Mr. Du Ve. 'The day before he died, having been ill some time, he said that in the night his father, his father's friend, and a female spirit he could not recognise, had come to him, and said that he would die next day, and that they would wait for him.' Mr.
Historical context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyThis material belongs to a folklore tradition. Story type, collector, community, transmission and literary editing matter when comparing it with other sources.
Modern context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyLattice compares motifs and reported features without assuming that a traditional being is a biological species or that similar stories document one external cause.
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