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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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THE
COLD
HAND
[Jerome
Cardan,
the
famous
physician,
tells
the
following
anecdote
in
his
De
Rerum
Varietate,
lib.
x.,
93.
Jerome
only
once
heard
a
rapping
himself,
at
the
time
of
the
death
of
a
friend
at
a
distance.
He
was
in
a
terrible
fright,
and
dared
not
leave
his
room
all
day.]
A
story
which
my
father
used
often
to
tell:
"I
was
brought
up,"
he
said,
"in
the
house
of
Joannes
Resta,
and
therein
taught
Latin
to
his
three
sons;
when
I
left
them
I
supported
myself
on
my
own
means.
It
chanced
that
one
of
these
lads,
while
I
was
studying
medicine,
fell
deadly
sick,
he
being
now
a
young
man
grown,
and
I
was
called
in
to
be
with
the
youth,
partly
for
my
knowledge
of
medicine,
partly
for
old
friendship's
sake.
The
master
of
the
house
happened
to
be
absent;
the
patient
slept
in
an
upper
chamber,
one
of
his
brothers
and
I
in
a
lower
room,
the
third
brother,
Isidore,
was
not
at
home.
Each
of
the
rooms
was
next
to
a
turret;
turrets
being
common
in
that
city.
When
we
went
to
bed
on
the
first
night
of
my
visit,
I
heard
a
constant
knocking
on
the
wall
of
the
room.
"'What
is
that?'
I
said.
"'Don't
be
afraid,
it
is
only
a
familiar
spirit,'
said
my
companion.
'They
call
them
follets;
it
is
harmless
enough,
and
seldom
so
troublesome
as
it
is
now:
I
don't
know
what
can
be
the
matter
with
it.'
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