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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
111
THE
DAEMON
OF
SPRAITON
IN
DEVON
{111}
ANNO
1682
"About
the
month
of
November
in
the
year
1682,
in
the
parish
of
Spraiton,
in
the
county
of
Devon,
one
Francis
Fey
(servant
to
Mr.
Philip
Furze)
being
in
a
field
near
the
dwelling-house
of
his
said
master,
there
appeared
unto
him
the
resemblance
of
an
aged
gentleman
like
his
master's
father,
with
a
pole
or
staff
in
his
hand,
resembling
that
he
was
wont
to
carry
when
living
to
kill
the
moles
withal.
The
spectrum
approached
near
the
young
man,
whom
you
may
imagin
not
a
little
surprized
at
the
appearance
of
one
that
he
knew
to
be
dead,
but
the
spectrum
bid
him
not
be
afraid
of
him,
but
tell
his
master
(who
was
his
son)
that
several
legacies
which
by
his
testament
he
had
bequeathed
were
unpaid,
naming
ten
shillings
to
one
and
ten
shillings
to
another,
both
which
persons
he
named
to
the
young
man,
who
replyed
that
the
party
he
last
named
was
dead,
and
so
it
could
not
be
paid
to
him.
The
ghost
answered
he
knew
that,
but
it
must
be
paid
to
the
next
relation,
whom
he
also
named.
The
spectrum
likewise
ordered
him
to
carry
twenty
shillings
to
a
gentlewoman,
sister
to
the
deceased,
living
near
Totness
in
the
said
county,
and
promised,
if
these
things
were
performed,
to
trouble
him
no
further;
but
at
the
same
time
the
spectrum,
speaking
of
his
second
wife
(who
was
also
dead)
called
her
wicked
woman,
though
the
gentleman
who
writ
the
letter
knew
her
and
esteemed
her
a
very
good
woman.
And
(having
thus
related
him
his
mind)
the
spectrum
left
the
young
man,
who
according
to
the
direction
of
the
spirit
took
care
to
see
the
small
legacies
satisfied,
and
carried
the
twenty
shillings
that
was
appointed
to
be
paid
the
gentlewoman
near
Totness,
but
she
utterly
refused
to
receive
it,
being
sent
her
(as
she
said)
from
the
devil.
The
same
night
the
young
man
lodging
at
her
house,
the
aforesaid
spectrum
appeared
to
him
again;
whereupon
the
young
man
challenged
his
promise
not
to
trouble
him
any
more,
saying
he
had
performed
all
according
to
his
appointment,
but
that
the
gentlewoman,
his
sister,
would
not
receive
the
money.
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