Mysticism & Esotericism
PUBLIC DOMAINThe Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers
- Original publication
- 1848
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 353
- File size
- 939.7 KB
Crowe gathers hauntings, doubles, prophetic dreams and spectral encounters, treating testimony as evidence from the unlit half of human experience.
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Catherine Crowe’s influential 1848 work collects reports of apparitions, haunted places, prophetic dreams, doubles and unexplained perception. Written before organized psychical research, it argues that repeated testimony deserves investigation rather than automatic ridicule. The cases combine folklore, personal reports and speculative theory, influencing Victorian supernatural culture. Crowe’s archive feels crowded by witnesses standing at the edge of certainty, each insisting that ordinary reality briefly opened and something from its night-side looked back.
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Mid-nineteenth-century supernatural inquiry
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