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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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But
there
was
sorrow
throughout
Argyll
long
before
the
gazette
appeared.
We
now
give
the
best
attainable
version
of
a
yet
more
famous
legend,
"The
Tyrone
Ghost".
The
literary
history
of
"The
Tyrone
Ghost"
is
curious.
In
1802
Scott
used
the
tale
as
the
foundation
of
his
ballad,
The
Eve
of
St.
John,
and
referred
to
the
tradition
of
a
noble
Irish
family
in
a
note.
In
1858
the
subject
was
discussed
in
Notes
and
Queries.
A
reference
was
given
to
Lyon's
privately
printed
Grand
Juries
of
Westmeath
from
1751.
The
version
from
that
rare
work,
a
version
dated
"Dublin,
August,
1802,"
was
published
in
Notes
and
Queries
of
24th
July,
1858.
In
December,
1896,
a
member
of
the
Beresford
family
published
in
The
Nines
(a
journal
of
the
Wiltshire
regiment),
the
account
which
follows,
derived
from
a
MS.
at
Curraghmore,
written
by
Lady
Betty
Cobbe,
granddaughter
of
the
ghost-seer,
Lady
Beresford.
The
writer
in
The
Nines
remembers
Lady
Betty.
The
account
of
1802
is
clearly
derived
from
the
Curraghmore
MS.,
but
omits
dates;
calls
Sir
Tristram
Beresford
"Sir
Marcus
";
leaves
out
the
visit
to
Gill
Hall,
where
the
ghost
appeared,
and
substitutes
blanks
for
the
names
of
persons
concerned.
Otherwise
the
differences
in
the
two
versions
are
mainly
verbal.
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