The belief in hauntings was naturally persistent through the middle ages, and example and theory abound in the Loca infesta (Cologne, 1598) of Petrus Thyraeus, S.
According to Thyraeus, hauntings appeal to the senses of sight, hearing and touch.
At last thehauntings ceased, on the 8th of February.
He continued these troublesomehauntings for three years, and did not leave off till he had burnt all the houses in the village.
At last he was consumed, and this execution put an end to the appearance and hauntings of this spectre.
She is cured of her mental hauntings by means of hypnotism.
They run the whole scale of human motions and emotions and one needs as much handy psychology to interpret their hauntings as to read George Meredith.
I will now relate a curious incident of haunting by elementals, and it will be seen that such hauntings may quite easily appear to the ordinary observer as an abnormal occurrence to which no clue can be given.
He did not seem very hopeful, but stated it to be his opinion that the hauntings were all nonsense, and that the screams people heard were the cries of some peacocks that lived in a property not far off.
There is so much talk nowadays of hauntings and ghosts, that it seems strange we should know so very little about them.
The accounts of the Ballechin hauntings are contained in a big volume, but at present I am only concerned in the four-footed ghosts that were seen.
We repeated the process for two more nights, and then, feeling that we had given the house a fair trial, we concluded it was either no longer haunted, or that the hauntings were periodical, and might not occur again for years.
I should say hauntings by neutrarians might last indefinitely; I see no reason why they should not.
Originally, I believe, the house was an inn, kept by a woman who bore a very evil reputation, and we have always wondered if the hauntings had anything to do with her.
The Davises left the house soon after I did, and who lives there now, and whether the hauntings still continue, I cannot say.
I took a step or two towards him with the intention of speaking, when he immediately vanished, and from that day to this the hauntings have entirely ceased.
Grettir heard of it; and because it was his fortune to get rid of hauntings and spirit-walkings, he took his way to Barthardal, and came to Sandhaugar on Yule eve.
Men thought for certain that these monsters must have caused the loss of men there in the dale; and there was never any loss from hauntings or spirit-walkings there afterwards.
When autumn came on the hauntingsbegan to increase.
Another point that is worthy of note is the fact that the hauntings of a poltergeist are generally attached to a certain individual in a certain spot, and thus differ from the operations of an ordinary ghost.
A story of a phantom rat, which comes from Limerick, is only one of many which show the popular Irish belief inhauntings by various animals.
Various theories to account for these strange hauntings have been formulated, which may be found on pp.
So the account goes on; every night that they slept in the room the hauntings continued, some nights being worse than others.
It is recorded that when this picture was hung between one of Mr. Stuart and his lady-love, the hauntings ceased, but that as soon as it was removed they were renewed.
There had not been the slightest attempt at manifestation, and, as the minutes sped swiftly by I began to fear that, perhaps, after all the hauntings were only of a negative nature.
I have never been able to ascertain; the intense animosity with which we all regarded him, made us believe anything ill of him, and we were quite ready to attribute all the alleged hauntingsin the neighbourhood to his past misdeeds.
Do you think the phenomenon of the candle was in any way connected with the bogle both you and I have seen, or are the hauntings of 'The Old White House' entirely separate from those of the road?
I have no doubt you are well acquainted with the hackneyed stories in connection with the hauntings at the castle; for example, Earl Beardie playing cards with the Devil, and The Weeping Woman without Hands or Tongue.
The third account of the Glamis hauntings was told me as long ago as the summer of 1893.
Then, leaving the subject of madness, Maurice began to institute a close investigation into the subject of alleged hauntings of human beings by apparitions and by sounds.
But whereas most so-called hauntings have been described to me as inimical, what I am conscious of is that I am admired, loved, desired.
For he was subject to evil dreams, was this Galeazzo--hauntings and visions which wrought in him that state that he would become a very madman if so little as the shadow of an opposition crossed his imagination.
Ghostly apparitions are always artificial, or at least that is said to have been the case in the Belvedere, as Cousin von Briest told me only yesterday, but hauntings are never artificial; hauntings are natural.
Be sure in thy mind," said Thorhall, "that mannikins are of small avail there because of the hauntings that have been going on there for one while now; for I will not draw thee on by wiles.
And again, in that he was the strongest in all the land among men of a like age; and more fitted to lay ghosts and do away with hauntings than any other.
In the spring Thorhall got serving-men, and set up house at his farm; then the hauntings began to go off while the sun was at its height; and so things went on to midsummer.
Grettir said, "Then shall one of two things be, either he shall not hold himself back for long, or the hauntings will abate for more than one night; I will bide here another night and see how things fare.
Suetonius chronicles noises and hauntings after the death of Caligula, but, naturally, the historian does not record similar disturbances in the pauperum tabernaae.
Hauntings may be visual, auditory, or confined to the sense of touch.
But the laughers came in with the merry monarch, and less by argument than by ridicule, by inveighing against the horror, too, of the hideous witch prosecutions, the laughers gradually brought hauntings and apparitions into contempt.
The case was heard, and the judge at Tours broke the lease, the hauntings being insupportable nuisances.
A stake was then driven through its heart, and thehauntings ceased.
Hauntings of this type generally occur where excavations have been made, a barrow broken into, or a dolmen removed; the manifestations generally taking the form of phantasms of the dead, the prehistoric dead.
They were all very much frightened, and declared that if the hauntings continued they would not be able to stay in the house.
I had finished, 'you attribute the hauntingsin the valley to the excavations of the geologist Leblanc and his party, at the cromlech six weeks ago?
Though telepathy and suggestion may possibly account for hauntings when the phenomenon is only experienced individually, I cannot see how it can do so when the manifestations are witnessed by numbers, i.
There are numerous instances of hauntings by phenomena of this kind, in some cases the phantasms being wholly animal, and in other cases semi-animal.
Mr. Anderson burnt the bones, hoping that by so doing he would rid the house of its unwelcome visitor; and, as his tenants so far have not complained, he believes that the hauntings have actually ceased.
The barrow was excavated, and when the remains therein had been burnt, the hauntings ceased.
The hauntings in houses are often due to something connected with the ground on which the houses are built.
A coach was said at one time to haunt a road in Monmouthshire, and there are numerous cases of similar hauntings in different parts of England.
In all other cases of hauntingsthe phenomena are due either to the earth-bound spirits of the depraved, to the silly, i.
Hauntings of a very disturbing nature go on (or, at least, did so a short while ago) at a house in Rugeley, where dreadful groans are frequently heard proceeding from a room on the ground floor.
I should think it not at all improbable, as many hauntings of a similar nature are undoubtedly caused by the earth-bound spirits of the mad, which accounts for the senseless crashings and thumpings!
In nine cases out of ten the origin of hauntings may be looked for in basements, the gloomy, depressing nature of which seem to have a special attraction for those Elementals that suggest crime.
I have no sorcerer's malison on me, No ghostlyhauntings like his Highness.
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