[[575]] Mich. Rauff, alterâ Dissert. Art. lvii. pp. 98, 99, et Art. lix. p. 100.
[[576]] De Nummis in Ore Defunctorum repertis, Art. ix. à Beyermuller, &c.
[[577]] Richer, Senon, tom. iii. Spicileg. Ducherii, p. 392.
[[578]] Rauff, Art. xlii. p. 43.
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"Tandemque venit ad pulpita nostrum
Exodium, cum personæ pallentis hiatum
In gremio matris fastidit rusticus infans."
Juvenal, Sat. iii. 174.
CHAPTER XLVI.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF A HUNGARIAN GHOST.
The most remarkable instance cited by Rauff[[580]] is that of one Peter Plogojovitz, who had been buried ten weeks in a village of Hungary, called Kisolova. This man appeared by night to some of the inhabitants of the village while they were asleep, and grasped their throat so tightly that in four-and-twenty hours it caused their death. Nine persons, young and old, perished thus in the course of eight days.
The widow of the same Plogojovitz declared that her husband since his death had come and asked her for his shoes, which frightened her so much that she left Kisolova to retire to some other spot.