The Ghost World
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Beliefs about ghosts from many countries and periods are gathered across thirty-one chapters. T. F. Thiselton Dyer, whose earlier work was on church lore, covers how the soul leaves the body, why ghosts wander, phantom birds, animal ghosts, lights and sounds, the headless ghost and the banshee. Other chapters treat raising and laying ghosts, death-warnings, second sight, haunted houses and places, and spells against spirits. The first chapter sets Homer's Iliad and Beowulf beside accounts from Russia, Africa and Malaya, where the soul is pictured as smoke or breath. Originally issued in London in 1893.
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Book facts
- Author
- T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 181
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Ghost Stories
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online