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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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"I
was
sitting
playing
the
guitar.
The
miller
got
up
to
leave,
and
was
followed
by
Mrs.
Shchapoff.
Hardly
had
she
shut
the
door,
when
I
heard,
as
though
from
far
off,
a
deep
drawn
wail.
The
voice
seemed
familiar
to
me.
Overcome
with
an
unaccountable
horror
I
rushed
to
the
door,
and
there
in
the
passage
I
saw
a
literal
pillar
of
fire,
in
the
middle
of
which,
draped
in
flame,
stood
Mrs.
Shchapoff.
.
.
.
I
rushed
to
put
it
out
with
my
hands,
but
I
found
it
burned
them
badly,
as
if
they
were
sticking
to
burning
pitch.
A
sort
of
cracking
noise
came
from
beneath
the
floor,
which
also
shook
and
vibrated
violently."
Mr.
Portnoff
and
the
miller
"carried
off
the
unconscious
victim".
Mr.
Shchapoff
also
saw
a
small
pink
hand,
like
a
child's,
spring
from
the
floor,
and
play
with
Mrs.
Shchapoff's
coverlet,
in
bed.
These
things
were
too
much;
the
Shchapoffs
fled
to
a
cottage,
and
took
a
new
country
house.
They
had
no
more
disturbances.
Mrs.
Shchapoff
died
in
child-bed,
in
1878,
"a
healthy,
religious,
quiet,
affectionate
woman".
CHAPTER
X
Modern
Hauntings
The
Shchapoff
Story
of
a
Peculiar
Type.
"Demoniacal
Possession."
Story
of
Wellington
Mill
briefly
analysed.
Authorities
for
the
Story.
Letters.
A
Journal.
The
Wesley
Ghost.
Given
Critically
and
Why.
Note
on
similar
Stories,
such
as
the
Drummer
of
Tedworth.
Sir
Waller
Scott's
Scepticism
about
Nautical
Evidence.
Lord
St.
Vincent.
Scott
asks
Where
are
his
Letters
on
a
Ghostly
Disturbance.
The
Letters
are
now
Published.
Lord
St.
Vincent's
Ghost
Story.
Reflections.
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