The Ghost World - T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

Caistor Hall, ghost at, [150]
Calabar superstition, [336]
Californian beliefs, [15], [35], [90]
Candles in ghost laying, [190]
—— snuff of, taken for ghost laying, [362]
—— spectral, [139]
Canning, George, [432]
Capelthwaite, [114]
Cassowary, [111]
Castle, sunken, [348]
Cedar room at Ashley Hall, [326]
Chappie, ghost so called, [306]
Chartley Park, [224]
Chasse Macabee, [125]
Checks against ghosts, [354]-[362]
Chevalier de Saxe, [171]
Chiancungi, fortune-tellers, [173]
Chibchas, [184]
Chinese belief, [6], [19], [33], [53], [55], [62], [65], [66], [72], [195], [211], [292], [339], [358]
Choctaw belief, [29], [37]
Chough, King Arthur in form of, [94]
Christmastide, ghosts at, [302]-[303]
Church ghosts, [330]-[331]
—— lamb, [126]
—— porch, [332]-[333], [387]
—— yard spectres, [69]
Churton Hall, [321]
Clegg Hall boggart, [199], [322]
Clock superstition, [227]
Cloud, soul as white, [4]
Cobal, ghost so called, [270]
Cock-crow, [354]-[356]
Cocks’ feathers hinder exit of soul, [12]
Cold lad, [313]
Colt, ghost as a, [103]
Combermere Abbey, [322]
Compacts between living and dead, [245]-[256]
Copeland, lady of, [133]
Corby Castle, ghost at, [311]
Cornish beliefs, [103], [108], [120], [128], [201], [207], [208], [262], [294], [300], [421]
—— legend of King Arthur, [94]
Cornwolf, [396]
Corpse candle, [139]-[140]
Cortachy Castle haunted, [311], [417]
Courting a ghost, [384]
Coved saloon at Combermere Abbey, [322]
Cows, ghosts in form of, [109]
Craighouse, [325]
Creslow Manor House, [313]
Criminals, ghosts of, [69]
Crook Hall haunted, [327]
Cross, check against evil spirits, [358], [361]
Cross-roads, ghosts at, [61], [383]
Cruikshank, George, [429]
Cullaby Castle, [320]
Cumberland, [76], [78], [266], [366]
Cumnor Hall, [77], [320]
Cutty Soams, [264]
Cwn y Wybe, [118]
Cyprus, [183]

Dandy dogs, [118], [120], [121]
Danish superstitions, [8], [48], [61], [88], [97], [126], [183], [215], [289], [361], [385], [416]
Dead, mutilation of, [359]-[360]
—— unburied, [43]-[49]
—— worship of, [63]
Death bell, [413]
—— birds presage of, [97]-[98]
—— warnings, [12], [13], [219], [232], [427]
Delitzsch, Dr., [428]
Demon, soul as, [62]
Denis, St., [145]
Denton Hall, [326]
Departed, Bay of the, [206]
Derwentwater, Lady, [321]
Desert, water of, [352]
Devil, compact with Lord Soulis, [323]
—— powerless at cock-crow, [355]
—— tries to seize soul at death, [14]
Devonshire beliefs, [97], [98], [376]
Diedrick of Bern, [125]
Dishonesty in life causes soul to wander, [51]
Doe, White, of Rylstone, [108]
Dogs of hell, [122]
—— spectral, [105]-[106]
—— the sky, [122]
Donart’s Castle, St., [76]
Doors unfastened at death, [6]
Dorcas, ghost so called, [267]
Dorchester, Lord, [380]
Dorsetshire, [149]
Doves in ghost-lore, [94], [98]
Doyle, Bishop, death of, [100]
Dreams, proof of soul’s existence, [17], [18]
Dress, phantom, [303]-[309]
Drowned, ghosts of, [206]-[213]
Drummer, mysterious, [311]
—— of Tedworth, [317]
Duck, soul as, [87]
Durham, [151]
Dutch belief, [8]-[9]
Dyterbjernat, [125]

Eagle, [94], [96]
Easterton ghost, the, [329]
Ebb of tide, death at, [15]-[16]
Edge Hill, strange phenomenon at, [351]
Edgewell oak, [222]
Edgeworth, Maria, [372]
Effigy, burial in, [49]
Elixir of life, [175]
Elizabeth, Queen, and her fetch, [364]
Elymas, the sorcerer, [164]
Epworth Parsonage haunted, [328], [430]
Eskimo belief, [6], [111], [143], [359]
Essex, [111]
Ewshott House haunted, [318], [431]
Exorcism, [88], [166]
Eye, soul in the, [3], [4]

Fairy music, [413]
Fata Morgana, [352]
Feathers, game, hinder exit of soul, [11]-[12]
Female fairy, [273]
Fetches, [363]-[364]
Fiddler, the indefatigable, [416]
Fijian beliefs, [19], [23], [27]-[28], [182], [217], [309], [339]
Finland, custom in, [336]
Fire, check against ghosts, [358]
Fish animated by souls, [111]
Flame, soul in, [137]
Flax-seed, charm against ghosts, [362]
Flies, souls as, [161]
Flying Dutchman, [286], [293]
Foot of the Fawn, [99]
Foote, Samuel, [424]
Foundation sacrifices, [30]
French beliefs, [5], [109], [125], [133], [231], [270], [289], [291]
Furious host, [136]
Fye, or wraith, [369]

Gabriel hounds, [117], [136]
—— Ratchets, [118]-[119]
Galicia, belief in, [37]
Game feathers hinder exit of soul, [11]-[12]
German beliefs, [5], [6], [8], [9], [56], [86], [97], [99], [123], [135]-[136], [155], [183], [212], [227], [260], [338], [341], [348], [360], [388], [391], [396]
Ghosts and hidden treasures, [397]-[410]
—— checks against, [354]-[362]
—— different classes of, [41]
—— headless, [33], [53], [69], [144]-[158], [306], [383]
—— times of appearing, [382]-[390]
—— why they wander, [50]-[63]
Ghost laying, [104], [179]-[205]
—— of the Hill, [220]
—— raising, [163]-[178]
—— seers, [214]-[218]
Glamis Castle haunted, [313], [431]
Gnat, soul as, [161]
Goblin friar, [313]
Golden mountain, [146]
Gould, Madame, [98]
Grass-wolf, [396]
Grave-sow, [126]
Graves, haunted, [341]
—— treading on, [345]
Gray sow, [126]
Greece, beliefs in, [25], [183], [394]
Greenland, beliefs in, [23], [29], [339]
Grief causes soul to wander, [61]
Gunpowder and ghosts, [360]-[361]
Gurlinbeg, family of, [221]

Hackwood House haunted, [32]
Hairy left hand, girl with, [221]
Hallow Eve, [388]
Hamilton, Lady, of Bothwellhaugh, [74]
Hanged, ghosts of, [53]
Hare, ghost as, [103], [271]
Harlequin, [125]
Haunted houses, [310]-[334]
—— localities, [335]-[353]
Headless ghosts, [33], [53], [60], [144]-[158], [306], [383]
Heart, seat of soul, [2], [3]
Hell Hole, [423]
Henequin, [125]
Herburt family, [94]
Hermitage Castle, [322], [403]
Herring piece, [93]
—— spear, [93]
Hidden treasures and ghosts, [397]-[410]
Hilton Castle, [313]
Hindu beliefs, [339]
—— dirge, [11]
Hinton Ampner Manor House, [312]
Hoby, Lady, [321]
Holland House, [145], [314]
Holly and ghost laying, [188]
—— charm against evil spirits, [358]
Holt Castle, [319]
Hooper of Sennen Cove, [300]
Horse, spectre as, [125]
—— shoe, [361]
Hottentot customs at death, [336], [339]
Hound, ghost as, [105]
House-fire put out at death, [359]
Houses, haunted, [310]-[334]
Howard, Lady, ghost of, [104]
Hugh Capet, [125]
Hulme Castle, treasures at, [397]
Hungary, belief in, [61]
Hunt, spectral, [124]-[125]
Huntsman, wild, [125]
Hurons of America, belief of, [67]
Hyssington Church, ghost at, [104]

Ignes Fatui, ghost as, [50]-[51]
Incantations against ghosts, [164]
Inchcape Bell, [422]-[423]
India, beliefs in, [12], [62], [67], [96], [99], [109], [110], [340], [343], [346], [357], [393], [395], [412], [414]
Insect life, [102]
Irish superstitions, [11], [94], [137], [146], [153], [156]-[157], [226], [274]-[275], [344], [350], [370], [377], [383], [405], [413]
Iroquois of North America, beliefs of, [44], [347], [393]
Italian belief, [358]
—— burial custom, [339]

Jackals, ghosts as, [9]
Japanese ghost story, [72]
—— mode of raising ghost, [166]
Jeffrey, Lady, ghost of, [187]
Jemmy Lowther, [311]
Juniper, spirit-haunted tree, [395]

Kaffir beliefs, [2], [336]
Kaneka superstition, [230]-[231]
Karens, beliefs of, [45], [67], [160], [309]
Kendal, Duchess of, [100]
Kilncote church porch, [332]
Kinchardines, [220]
Kirk-grim, [125]
Knauff-Kriegen, [270]
Knockers, [262]

Lady of Copeland, [133]
—— of Death, [273]
—— of the Golden Casket, [129]
—— of the Lantern, [128]
—— Winter’s walk, [156]
Lamb buried under altar, [126]
—— church, [126]
Lambton, Madame, [327]
Lancashire, [4]-[5], [14], [74]-[75], [91]-[92], [112], [198], [214], [376]
Lavington, East, parsonage, [329]
Lightfoot, Lady, [77]
Lights, phantom, [127]-[143]
Lily, soul as, [391]-[392]
Lincolnshire, [129]
Lion, [226]
Little Knocker’s Night, [438]
Lledrith, [370]
Locks unfastened at death, [5], [7]
Lowther Hall haunted, [432]
Ly-erg, [220]
Lyttelton, Lord, [100]