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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
80
"So
vivid
was
my
remembrance
of
the
features
of
the
soldier,
that
some
months
after
the
occurrence
[of
the
vision]
when
I
called
with
my
husband
at
a
house
where
there
was
a
portrait
of
him,
I
stepped
before
it
and
said,
'Why,
look!
there
is
the
General!'
And
sure
enough
it
was."
Mrs.
M.
had
not
heard
that
the
portrait
was
in
the
room
where
she
saw
it.
Mr.
M.
writes
that
he
took
her
to
the
house
where
he
knew
it
to
be
without
telling
her
of
its
existence.
Mrs.
M.
turned
pale
when
she
saw
it.
Mr.
M.
knew
the
sad
old
story,
but
had
kept
it
to
himself.
The
family
in
which
the
disgrace
occurred,
in
1847
or
1848,
were
his
relations.
{78}
This
vision
was
a
veracious
hallucination;
it
gave
intelligence
not
otherwise
known
to
Mrs.
M.,
and
capable
of
confirmation,
therefore
the
appearances
would
be
called
"ghosts".
The
majority
of
people
do
not
believe
in
the
truth
of
any
such
stories
of
veracious
hallucinations,
just
as
they
do
not
believe
in
veracious
dreams.
Mr.
Galton,
out
of
all
his
packets
of
reports
of
hallucinations,
does
not
even
allude
to
a
veracious
example,
whether
he
has
records
of
such
a
thing
or
not.
Such
reports,
however,
are
ghost
stories,
"which
we
now
proceed,"
or
continue,
"to
narrate".
The
reader
will
do
well
to
remember
that
while
everything
ghostly,
and
not
to
be
explained
by
known
physical
facts,
is
in
the
view
of
science
a
hallucination,
every
hallucination
is
not
a
ghost
for
the
purposes
of
story-telling.
The
hallucination
must,
for
story-telling
purposes,
be
veracious.
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