Mysticism & Esotericism
PUBLIC DOMAINThe Ghost World
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Thiselton-Dyer assembles apparitions, haunted places and death omens from British tradition, mapping a folklore landscape where the departed remain dangerously near.
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T. F. Thiselton-Dyer’s Victorian survey gathers beliefs concerning ghosts, haunted houses, spectral lights, warnings, funerary customs and the return of the dead. The work compares traditions across Britain and beyond, preserving stories that passed between oral culture and printed antiquarianism. It does not prove the supernatural; it records the forms through which communities imagined it. The resulting world is crowded with unfinished departures, where roads, rooms and churchyards retain memories that seem unwilling to remain silent.
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Late nineteenth-century British folklore
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