The revenge ghosts in the Gothic do not cry "Vindicta!
Ghosts begin to crowd upon each others' heels in later Gothic novels.
These ghosts of dead selves from the past are different from the doubles that are projections of the living, or prophetic specters of the future, and are clearly distinguished.
The ghosts of medievalism, of ancient superstition, and the drama were for the most part pallid, colorless beings in character as in materialization.
There are ghosts that come only when called,--sometimes the castle dungeons have to be paged for retiring shades; others appear of their own free will.
The book claims to be a truthful account of a happening at Versailles, where two English women, teachers and daughters of clergymen, saw in broad daylight the ghosts of the past, the figures of Marie Antoinette and her court.
The genealogical founder of the family of Gothic ghosts is the giant apparition in The Castle of Otranto.
The carrion ghosts of Bierce, animated by malignant foreign spirits, surpass the charnel shudders produced by the Gothic.
The ancient ghosts were more mournful than the moderns, since the state of the dead in early times was by no means enviable.
In Gale Sheldon's big, still room, crowded with the friendly ghosts of mighty books, a clear fire was burning.
In their very nature, ghosts should be seen, not heard.
No ghostshave risen to protest her presence there.
It's full of ghosts of kings and queens, and noblemen and great ladies, and soldiers and robbers, every one of them more important than the people we see.
But there are exceptions to all keyholes, and this was one, because, as none save ghosts and fairies lived or moved behind it in the garret, there was nobody to spy upon.
In any case the belief in the presence of ancestral ghosts around the hearth was widespread, as existing superstitions show.
Probably, also, human representatives of the vegetation or corn-spirit were slain, and this may have suggested the belief in the presence of their ghosts at this festival.
These would certainly be associated with the dead; indeed, existing legends show that they were believed to be tenanted by the ghosts and to have the power of motion.
Samhain, as has been seen, was also a festival of the dead, whose ghostswere fed at this time.
Even his ghosts are un-Celtic, misty and unsubstantial phantasms, unlike the embodied revenants of the saga which are in agreement with the Celtic belief that the soul assumed a body in the other world.
Heads of the slain were offered to the "strong shades"--the ghosts of tribal heroes whose praises were sung by bards.
The victims were slain to obtain plenty, and the festival would also commemorate those who had died for this good cause, while it would also appease their ghosts should these be angry at their violent deaths.
This belief is certainly found in some late Welsh poems, where the ghosts are described as wandering in the Caledonian forest, but these can hardly be made use of as evidence for the old pagan doctrine.
We were always running into ghosts of the way we used to care, and yet you were so dear to me and sweet to me.
The interminable wet and weeping road over the mountain swarmed with memories of Alec; with the ghosts of the Alec and ourselves of bygone days.
It is not only Ellen who would like to slay the dead ghosts of unworthy loves.
The ghoststhat haunt the chamber of his mind are the ghosts of dead men and women.
She had little fear that ghostsof the past would come to haunt her in her new home, for though the Prince di Sereno had once cared for her in his way, she had struck at his pride and made him hate her in the end.
We have signalized the belief in such a passage as the origin of those countless mediaeval legends of the earthly Paradise: doubtless it is the parent of the modern superstition that ghosts will not cross the running water.
Then, when all the ghosts were landed, they were carried back to Gaul.
Why did Hamlet trouble about ghosts after death, when life itself is haunted by ghosts so much more terrible?
When the stories of ghosts and goblins went around, I kept quiet.
He laughed at me, and jeered, and told me tales of ghosts and of the dead that walk at night.
From this tale it would appear that some ghosts were more easily overcome than others.
Edmund Jones, in his book entitled A Relation of Ghosts and Apparitions, etc.
The simplicity of the Ghosts is ridiculous, and can only be understood by supposing that the various steps in the contest for the mastery are not forthcoming, that they have been lost.
Here people who have travelled by night affirm that they have seen ghosts--the ghosts of those who have been murdered in this secluded glen.
Ghosts for the purpose of revealing hidden treasures.
After one more tale, I will leave these Spirit stories, and I will then relate how troublesomeGhosts were laid.
The walls of the cavern have been blackened by the damp, and these awful shapes reveal themselves but slowly to the eye, so that they look like a vague and dreadful company of ghosts advancing from the darkness.
And the sad solitude, in which there was not a sound of moving leaf or singing bird, seemed to be peopled by the ghosts of men who were waiting and weeping out their hundred years on the Stygian shore.
If one could confront this without losing his nerve, he reasoned, he could break from the ghosts of mother and father, the innate need for family, and the wish to be a less damaged "good for nothing.
And now they are dead, I suppose the wronged ghosts don't appear any more?
If you be ghosts or devils I will foil you," cried the captain, and tearing a silver button from his doublet he rammed it into his gun and fired on the advancing host.
In the third story of the seven which divide perdition I saw the ghosts of the Giaours.
And do you, Cardinal, marshal a host of fresh Latin prayers for the dying; for, if Scanderbeg gets among your Italians, their saffron skins will bleach into ghosts for fright of him.
And, good Murta, send for the silver bowl; for my brain is that hot that I fear me the Giaour ghosts we have sent gibbering to hell during the last few days have left the spell of their evil eyes upon me too.
He sent a host of gibbering Giaour ghoststo hell while on his way to heaven.
So Dolly turned decidedly away from the tall suitor and found two otherghosts bowing before her and evidently requesting her to dance.
Then there would be a mysterious rushing through the trees and all the leaves would quiver and quake against each other, like little ghosts that were afraid to be out in the dark night.
No tragic ghosts kept vigil there, it was certain.
And she had knowledge of a magic land full of strange people and cruel ghosts and dear delights: and an imagination: and a vocabulary.
Five more ghosts were added to the supernatural population of Sloperton Grange.
Ghosts were historically unknown to Aristides, and even had his imaginative faculty been more prominent, the education of Smith's Pocket was not of a kind to foster such weaknesses.
It was almost as if they were the ghosts of their own ancestors haunting that dark wood and dismal lake, and playing some old part that they only half remembered.
It seemed fated that he should feel something of the past in the accidents of that place, for the figure might well have been an early-Victorian ghost revisiting the ghosts of the croquet hoops and mallets.
They care but little for the winged phantoms of the air--for the ghosts and devils and supposed gods.
Will they always build temples for ghosts and phantoms, and live in huts and dens themselves?
To say that an enthusiasm for totems and taboos, ghosts and gods of savage men, was aroused by these lectures, would be to exaggerate unpardonably.
I cannot hear amid the heats The North Sea's freshening flow The people hurry up and down, Like ghosts that cannot lie; And wandering through the phantom town The weariest ghost am I.
Shall dreams and memories crowding from the distance, Shall ghosts of old ambition or of mirth, Create for us a shadow of existence, A dim reflection of the life of earth?
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