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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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CHAPTER
V
"Spirits
of
the
Living."
Mistakes
of
Identity.
Followed
by
Arrival
of
Real
Person.
"Arrivals."
Mark
Twain's
Phantom
Lady.
Phantom
Dogcart.
Influence
of
Expectant
Attention.
Goethe.
Shelley.
The
Wraith
of
the
Czarina.
Queen
Elizabeth's
Wraith.
Second
Sight.
Case
at
Ballachulish.
Experiments
in
sending
Wraiths.
An
"Astral
Body".
Evidence
discussed.
Miss
Russell's
Case.
"Spirits
of
the
Dying."
Maori
Examples.
Theory
of
Chance
Coincidence.
In
Tavistock
Place.
The
Wynyard
Wraith.
Lord
Brougham's
Wraith
Story.
Lord
Brougham's
Logic.
The
Dying
Mother.
Comparison
with
the
Astral
Body.
The
Vision
of
the
Bride.
Animals
as
affected
by
the
supposed
Presence
of
Apparitions.
Examples.
Transition
to
Appearances
of
the
Dead.
"Spirits
of
the
living"
is
the
Highland
term
for
the
appearances
of
people
who
are
alive
and
well--but
elsewhere.
The
common
Highland
belief
is
that
they
show
themselves
to
second-sighted
persons,
very
frequently
before
the
arrival
of
a
stranger
or
a
visitor,
expected
or
unexpected.
Probably
many
readers
have
had
the
experience
of
meeting
an
acquaintance
in
the
street.
He
passes
us,
and
within
a
hundred
yards
we
again
meet
and
talk
with
our
friend.
When
he
is
of
very
marked
appearance,
or
has
any
strong
peculiarity,
the
experience
is
rather
perplexing.
Perhaps
a
few
bits
of
hallucination
are
sprinkled
over
a
real
object.
This
ordinary
event
leads
on
to
what
are
called
"Arrivals,"
that
is
when
a
person
is
seen,
heard
and
perhaps
spoken
to
in
a
place
to
which
he
is
travelling,
but
whither
he
has
not
yet
arrived.
Mark
Twain
gives
an
instance
in
his
own
experience.
At
a
large
crowded
reception
he
saw
approaching
him
in
the
throng
a
lady
whom
he
had
known
and
liked
many
years
before.
When
she
was
near
him,
he
lost
sight
of
her,
but
met
her
at
supper,
dressed
as
he
had
seen
her
in
the
"levee".
At
that
moment
she
was
travelling
by
railway
to
the
town
in
which
he
was.
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