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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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The
authorities
for
what
occurred
are,
first,
a
statement
and
journal
by
Mr.
Wesley,
then
a
series
of
letters
of
1717
to
Sam
at
Westminster
by
his
mother,
Emily
and
Sukey,
next
a
set
of
written
statements
made
by
these
and
other
witnesses
to
John
Wesley
in
1726,
and
last
and
worst,
a
narrative
composed
many
years
after
by
John
Wesley
for
The
Arminian
Magazine.
The
earliest
document,
by
a
few
days,
is
the
statement
of
Mr.
Wesley,
written,
with
a
brief
journal,
between
21st
December,
1716,
and
1st
January,
1717.
Comparing
this
with
Mrs.
Wesley's
letter
to
Sam
of
12th
January,
1716
and
Sukey's
letter
of
24th
January,
we
learn
that
the
family
for
some
weeks
after
1st
December
had
been
"in
the
greatest
panic
imaginable,"
supposing
that
Sam,
Jack,
or
Charlie
(who
must
also
have
been
absent
from
home)
was
dead,
"or
by
some
misfortune
killed".
The
reason
for
these
apprehensions
was
that
on
the
night
of
1st
December
the
maid
"heard
at
the
dining-room
door
several
dreadful
groans,
like
a
person
in
extremes".
They
laughed
at
her,
but
for
the
whole
of
December
"the
groans,
squeaks,
tinglings
and
knockings
were
frightful
enough".
The
rest
of
the
family
(Mr.
Wesley
always
excepted)
"heard
a
strange
knocking
in
divers
places,"
chiefly
in
the
green
room,
or
nursery,
where
(apparently)
Hetty,
Patty
and
Keziah
lay.
Emily
heard
the
noises
later
than
some
of
her
sisters,
perhaps
a
week
after
the
original
groans.
She
was
locking
up
the
house
about
ten
o'clock
when
a
sound
came
like
the
smashing
and
splintering
of
a
huge
piece
of
coal
on
the
kitchen
floor.
She
and
Sukey
went
through
the
rooms
on
the
ground
floor,
but
found
the
dog
asleep,
the
cat
at
the
other
end
of
the
house,
and
everything
in
order.
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