Mysticism & Esotericism
PUBLIC DOMAINThe Book of Dreams and Ghosts
- Original publication
- 1897
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 182
- File size
- 464.9 KB
Lang collects prophetic dreams, apparitions and haunted testimony, balancing scepticism with the disturbing possibility that repeated stories preserve an unexplained remainder.
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Andrew Lang’s 1897 collection examines dreams, apparitions, haunted houses, crisis visions and reports of the dead. As a folklorist, he compares testimony rather than accepting every account, yet he remains interested in patterns that resist easy explanation. The book stands between Victorian psychical research and traditional ghost lore. Its witnesses speak from bedrooms, roads and deathbeds, leaving behind fragments that never form a complete proof - only the persistent impression that something entered the record and was not explained away.
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Late nineteenth-century psychical folklore
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