All my pictures today are from Sanford…all the quotes from The Enchanted World: Ghosts
SO ARE YOU READY FOR HALLOWEEN? Matthew threw a spanner into my plans–I am gonna do a little something, but not sure what at this point.
Today in honor of the season we’re looking for or at? Ghosts.
But first to a less scary items–ways to keep Droughtlander from haunting you.
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“The objects of every day life were frought with signs of the future. A candle flame that suddenly died spoke of impending death in a household, melting wax coiled around a candle shaft meant a winding sheet would soon be need.”
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Keep up on all the spoilers and quotes and what ever else on the new season which may or may not start in April http://www.counselheal.com/articles/25742/20161020/outlander-season-3-updates-spoilers-claire-coming-back-new-characters.htm
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“In the North of England lurked the shaggy dog called Sherker, a forerunner of Death. To see and to hear the hateful squelching of its feet was a terrible fate indeed.”
Have you ever seen a ghost? In Slavic lands there are many accounts but the naviky–spirits of children who died unbaptized has to be some of the saddest. These lost souls are said to appear as infants or young children who rock branches while wailing and crying the night through while others say they appear as huge black birds. Some are very aggressive as they blame the living adults for letting them die and it is said that they lure travelers in to perilous places.
I grew up in a community of mostly persons of Scottish descent and even though they had been in this country since colonial times there were many tales and legends that might well be traceable back to the country of kilts. People told tales of omens and things that went bump in the might. I remember one tale of a house where one of the bedrooms had the distinction of the bed clothes being pulled off the bed repeatedly. The guest who went to sleep there was fine until he/she let go of the quilts, but once they let go unseen hands would grasp the bed clothes and slowly pull them to the end of the bed where the sleep when awakened would find them in a neat pile on the floor at the bottom end of the bed. This could go on all night.
There were other tales about that same house, like when you threw potato peels out to the animals they would find them returned to the house in the morning, brought back by unseen hands. There was never any one who could explain this–but the locals blamed everything from ghosts to demons.
“Europe once abounded in haunted houses, and haunted battlefields, Rome had a haunted bridge–The Ponte Sisto, which spans the Tiber nor far from the Fornese Palace.”
Popular ghosts have over time included a lot of brides. Brides haunt several English houses–since ghosts seem to be beings that left this life with something undone or incomplete what better candidate than a bride in all her finery about to start a new life with plans of building a home and having a family–who is suddenly taken from all of that. One would think she very much seems someone who would try to hole to the living world with every ounce of strength she had.
A story is told in Hampshire about the Maxwell Hale house when a bride who challenged her guest to a game of hide and seek, but then disappeared to the amazement of all the guests. A long search of the house and country-side failed to find her. Life went on but a spirit supposedly very similar to the girl was now seen regularly flitting about the house. It was only years later that a servant opened an oak chest in the attic and found the bride’s skeleton. It seems that she had climbed in and became trapped. Once the remains had been laid to rest, it is said she haunted the house no more.
Children also often get trapped on the living plain. IN Cumberland there are legends of a stone castle where a small boy was locked in a room as punishment and froze. For years it is said he wandered the house shivering and teeth chattering. He was also known to touch those who were ill, easing them out of their severe illness to eternal peace by his touch.
“In 17th c Cornwall the dishonest defendant included as his witness a dead man Jan Tregeagle. To his dismay Tregeagle’s spirit instantly appeared and reputed his story.”
Not all ghosts are helpful or merely scary, while some are downright dangerous.
In Iceland there are legends of “Walkers of death” corpses, horrible looking creatures, that stank of rotten flesh and ambulated with awkward shuffling gait, that moved about on winter nights. They did all manner of damage including frightening horse which they stampeded and killed by tearing their flesh and crushing their bones.
In Denmark they had ceremonies to deal with evil ghosts which forced the spirit into the ground–they kept them imprisoned there by driving a stake (you thought that was only for vampires didn’t you) down thru the earth into the trapped spirit’s heart–which meant that one had to be careful when encountering stakes in the fields because a removal would release the evil spirit back into the world of the living.
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