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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
153
"The
Soutars
disliked
much
to
be
questioned
on
the
subject
of
the
Dog
of
Mause.
Thomas
Soutar,
who
was
tenant
in
Easter
Mause,
formerly
named
Knowhead
of
Mause,
and
died
last
year
upwards
of
eighty
years
of
age,
said
that
the
Soutars
came
originally
from
Annandale,
and
that
their
name
was
Johnston;
that
there
were
three
brothers
who
fled
from
that
part
of
the
country
on
account
of
their
having
killed
a
man;
that
they
came
by
Soutar's
Hill,
and
having
asked
the
name
of
the
hill,
were
told
'Soutar,'
upon
which
they
said,
'Soutar
be
it
then,'
and
took
that
name.
One
of
the
brothers
went
south
and
the
others
came
north."
{155a}
The
appearance
of
human
ghosts
in
the
form
of
beasts
is
common
enough;
in
Shropshire
they
usually
"come"
as
bulls.
(See
Miss
Burne's
Shropshire
Folklore.)
They
do
not
usually
speak,
like
the
Dog
o'
Mause.
M.
d'Assier,
a
French
Darwinian,
explains
that
ghosts
revert
"atavistically"
to
lower
forms
of
animal
life!
{155b}
We
now,
in
accordance
with
a
promise
already
made,
give
an
example
of
the
ghosts
of
beasts!
Here
an
explanation
by
the
theory
that
the
consciousness
of
the
beast
survives
death
and
affects
with
a
hallucination
the
minds
of
living
men
and
animals,
will
hardly
pass
current.
But
if
such
cases
were
as
common
and
told
on
evidence
as
respectable
as
that
which
vouches
for
appearances
of
the
dead,
believers
in
these
would
either
have
to
shift
their
ground,
or
to
grant
that
Admitted
to
that
equal
sky,
Our
faithful
dog
may
bear
us
company.
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