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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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"Other
people
had
suffered
many
things
in
the
same
house,
unknown
to
Dr.
and
Mrs.
Gwynne,
who
gave
up
the
place
soon
afterwards."
In
plenty
of
stories
we
hear
of
ghosts
who
draw
curtains
or
open
doors,
and
these
apparent
material
effects
are
usually
called
part
of
the
seer's
delusion.
But
the
night-light
certainly
went
out
under
the
figure's
hand,
and
was
relit
by
Dr.
Gwynne.
Either
the
ghost
was
an
actual
entity,
not
a
mere
hallucination
of
two
people,
or
the
extinction
of
the
light
was
a
curious
coincidence.
{186}
CHAPTER
IX
Haunted
Houses.
Antiquity
of
Haunted
Houses.
Savage
Cases.
Ancient
Egyptian
Cases.
Persistence
in
Modern
Times.
Impostures.
Imaginary
Noises.
Nature
of
Noises.
The
Creaking
Stair.
Ghostly
Effects
produced
by
the
Living
but
Absent.
The
Grocer's
Cough.
Difficulty
of
Belief.
My
Gillie's
Father's
Story.
"Silverton
Abbey."
The
Dream
that
Opened
the
Door.
Abbotsford
Noises.
Legitimate
Haunting
by
the
Dead.
The
Girl
in
Pink.
The
Dog
in
the
Haunted
Room.
The
Lady
in
Black.
Dogs
Alarmed.
The
Dead
Seldom
Recognised.
Glamis.
A
Border
Castle.
Another
Class
of
Hauntings.
A
Russian
Case.
The
Dancing
Devil.
The
Little
Hands.
Haunted
houses
have
been
familiar
to
man
ever
since
he
has
owned
a
roof
to
cover
his
head.
The
Australian
blacks
possessed
only
shelters
or
"leans-to,"
so
in
Australia
the
spirits
do
their
rapping
on
the
tree
trunks;
a
native
illustrated
this
by
whacking
a
table
with
a
book.
The
perched-up
houses
of
the
Dyaks
are
haunted
by
noisy
routing
agencies.
We
find
them
in
monasteries,
palaces,
and
crofters'
cottages
all
through
the
Middle
Ages.
On
an
ancient
Egyptian
papyrus
we
find
the
husband
of
the
Lady
Onkhari
protesting
against
her
habit
of
haunting
his
house,
and
exclaiming:
"What
wrong
have
I
done,"
exactly
in
the
spirit
of
the
"Hymn
of
Donald
Ban,"
who
was
"sair
hadden
down
by
a
bodach"
(noisy
bogle)
after
Culloden.
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