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Stranger than Fiction - Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-Lore
"Stranger than Fiction - Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-Lore" is a fascinating treatise on folk tales and ghost stories, particularly those originating in Wales, United Kingdom. With interesting historical information and detailed descriptions of common tales, this book is highly recommended for modern readers with an interest in folk-lore and myth. Contents include: "Introductory, "Welsh Ghosts", "Welsh Ghosts (continued)", "Other Ghosts", "Corpse-Candles and the Toili", "Corpse-Candles and the Toili (continued)", "Welsh Fairies", "Wise Men, Witches, and Family Curses", "Odd Notes", and "Conclusion". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition designed for a modern audience.
Stranger Than Fiction
First published in 1911, this volume explores the folklore and superstitions of Wales. A treasured resource, it contains accounts of ghosts and hauntings, as well as the local fey folk and witches.
Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide
An interesting rereading of familiar texts by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot recovering the historical and literary roots of the supernatural as it appears in each women's work. Dickerson (English, Rhodes College) makes interesting observations about women's changing roles in the 19th century when scientific advancements relegated women to the home as arbiters of the spiritual while men occupied themselves with "rational" invention. Through close readings, she demonstrates how the Brontes, Gaskell, and Eliot resisted this division and, simultaneously, created a spiritual genre of writing traditionally denigrated by critics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The Triumph of the Moon
Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects. This work is no exception: for the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world; that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. We also find some of the leading of figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950. Densely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into a hitherto little-known aspect of modern social history.
Animal Ghosts
Chapter I. CAT. In opening this volume on Animals and their associations with the unknown, I will commence with a case of hauntings in the Old Manor House, at Oxenby. My informant was a Mrs. Hartnoll, whom I can see in my mind's eye, as distinctly as if I were looking at her now. Hers was a personality that no lapse of time, nothing could efface; a personality that made itself felt on boys of all temperaments, most of all, of course, on those who--like myself--were highly strung and sensitive. She was classical mistress at L.'s, the then well-known dame school in Clifton, where for three years--prior to migrating to a Public School--I was well grounded in all the mysticisms of Kennedy's Lati...
