The Ghost World

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

• Madagascar, beliefs in, [23], [346]
• Madge Figg’s chair, [129]
• Madness causes soul to wander, [61]
• Magic circle, [167]
• Malay belief, [3]
• Malevolent spirits, [70]
• Manes worship, [63]
• Manx fishermen, [93]
• Maori belief, [336]
• Mark’s, St., Eve, [332], [386]
• Martyrs, ghosts of, [86]
• Mary Way, spectre so called, [152]
• Mauthe Doog, [116]-[117], [311]
• May Moulach, [221]
• Mazarin, Duchess of, [254]
• Mermaid, [415]
• Mexican belief, [89]
• Midsummer Eve, [387]
• Milky-way, the, [96]
• Miners’ ghosts, [257]-[272], [370]-[371]
• Mines, ghosts in, [108], [262]-[263]
• Mirage, [352]
• Mohun, Lord, [372]
• Money hidden by ghosts, [400]-[409]
• Monkey, soul as, [110]
• Mountain, abode of spirits, [348]
• Mourning customs, [340]
• Mouse, soul as, [110]
• Mouth, escape of soul from, [2]-[5]
• Murder discovered through ghost, [81]-[84]
• —— preceded by supernatural sounds, [433]-[434]
• Murdered, ghosts of, [33], [64]-[84]
• Murderers, ghosts of, [52]-[53], [54], [360]
• Music, phantom, [411]-[425]
• —— at sea, [413]

• Necromancy, [165]
• Netherby Hall, [327]
• Newstead Abbey, [313]
• New Zealanders, beliefs of, [3], [35], [182]
• Nix, river spirit, [202]
• Norfolk, [112], [148], [149], [208], [423]
• Northamptonshire, [383]-[384], [409]-[410]
• Northumberland, [150], [398]
• Norwegian beliefs, [68], [76], [360]
• Nostrils, exit of soul through, [3]
• Nun, bleeding, [44]
• —— of Walton, spectre so called, [154]
• Nymph of air, [273]

• Oak, holes in, [395]
• Obrick’s colt, [103]
• Ojibway, beliefs in, [30], [162], [184], [185], [217], [291], [336], [339], [347]
• Old Barbery, ghost so called, [326]-[327]
• —— Hummums, [316]
• Orleans, Catholic church of, [430]
• Ottawas, beliefs of, [45], [68]
• Oulton House, Suffolk, [322]
• Ouse, river, [225]
• Owls and Arundel of Wardour, [99], [222]
• —— as souls, [94]-[95]
• Oxenham family, death-omen of, [98]

• Padfoot, [113]
• Papuans of New Guinea, belief of, [110]
• Parsonages, haunted, [328]-[329]
• Passing bell, [15]
• Pawcorance, small bird, [95]
• Pearlin, Jean, [305]
• Peel Castle haunted, [116]-[117], [311]
• Peg O’Nell, ghost so called, [200], [327]
• Percy, Sir Joceline, [150]
• Personality, double, [367]
• Peruvian beliefs, [36], [257], [387]
• Pezazi, mystery of, [436]-[437]
• Phantom bells, [420]-[421]
• —— birds, [85]-[101]
• —— butterflies, [159]-[162]
• —— dress, [303]-[309]
• —— lights, [127]-[143]
• —— music, [411]-[425]
• —— sounds, [426]-[438]
• Philosopher’s stone, [175]
• Pig, ghost as, [125]
• Pigeon feathers hinder exit of soul, [11]-[12]
• —— ghost as a, [86]
• Pigott, Madame, [197]
• Pileck family, [94]
• Pirate wrecker, [294]
• Polish legend, [94]
• Poltergeist, a spectre in Germany, [438]
• Polynesian belief, [45]
• Pomerania, belief in, [183]
• Porter, Anna Maria, [373]
• Potawatomis, [184]
• Powis Castle, [320]
• Prophecy at death, [13]-[14]
• Pysling, form of ghost, [70]

• Rabbit, [271]
• Radiant boy, [129], [311]
• Rainham, story Marquis of Townshend, [312]
• Ramhurst Manor House, [312]
• Ravens as ghosts of the murdered, [48], [88]
• —— omens of death, [100]
• Red Sea, ghosts laid in, [201], [203]-[204]
• Redwing, noise caused by, [93]
• Rich, Lady Diana, [366]
• Robin redbreast, [100]-[101]
• Robsart, Amy, [77], [202], [320]
• Roof, hole made in for exit of soul, [6]
• Rose, white, soul as, [392]
• Roslin Chapel, [141]
• Rothiemurcus, [220]
• Roumenian legend, [31]
• Rufus, William, fetch of, [34]
• Russia, Catharine of, [369]
• Russian beliefs, [2], [12], [32], [137], [159], [161], [338], [349], [358]
• Rustling lady, the, [327]

• Sacrifices, foundation, [30]
• —— to souls of departed, [62]
• Samlesbury Hall, [322]
• Sampford Peverell ghost, [322]
• Sandwich Islanders, [340]
• Scotch beliefs, [6], [7], [11], [61], [73], [125], [129], [169], [180], [194], [230], [239], [258], [265], [312], [359], [369], [370], [401]-[402]
• Scott, Sir Walter, [434]-[435]
• Seals, spectral, [106]
• Sea-phantoms, [284]-[302]
• Seaton Delaval Castle, [321]
• Second sight, [22], [233]-[244]
• Seminoles of Florida, [4], [336]
• Serpent comes out of mouth, [109]
• Servian belief, [160]
• Seven whistlers, [91]
• Sexhow, ghost at, [399]
• Shadow sight, [233]
• —— soul as, [29]-[32]
• Sheep, ghosts as, [109]
• Shelley and his wraith, [365]
• Shell fire, [137]
• Shrieking woman, the, [71]
• Shropshire, [55], [61], [103]-[104], [151]-[153], [181]-[187], [190]
• Shuck’s Lane, [112]
• Siamese superstitions, [67], [212], [339]-[438]
• Siberian belief, [358]
• Silky, name of a ghost, [130], [305], [321], [327], [398]
• Silky’s bridge, [131]
• Simon Magus, [164]
• Singed birds, souls as, [96]
• Singhalese superstitions, [408], [437]-[438]
• Skipsea Castle, [326]
• Skull at Agnes Burton Hall, [326]
• Smellie, W., [252]
• Smith, George, the Assyriologist, [428]
• Smoke, soul as, [2]
• Smugglers, [429]
• Snakes, ghosts in form of, [62]-[109]
• Sneezing, explanation of, [22]
• Soul-bringer, [97]
• Soul, appearance of, [40]-[41]
• —— bringing back of, [19]
• —— destination of, [348]
• —— duplex nature of, [27]
• —— existence of depends on manner of death, [33]-[35]
• —— exit of, [1]-[16]
• —— materiality of, [24]-[27]
• —— nature of, [24]-[42]
• —— temporary exit of, [17]-[23], [338]
• —— voice of, [39]-[40]
• —— weight of, [38]-[39]
• Souldern Rectory, [328]
• Souter, or Soutra, Fell, [351]
• Spanish beliefs, [5], [360]
• Spectral child, [321]
• —— dogs, [111]
• —— hunt, [124]-[5]
• —— ships, [288]-[9], [294]
• Spells against ghosts, [354]-[362]
• Spirit of air, [273]
• Staffordshire rhyme, [51]
• Steam, soul as, [3]
• Stichios, a kind of spectre, [394]
• Storks, [95], [97]
• Stradling, Lady, [76]
• Strand varsler, [48]
• Striker, [112]
• Sturgeon, death omen, [222]
• Suffolk belief, [149], [184]-[198]
• Suicides, ghosts of, [53]
• Sunday children, [215]
• Sunken towns, [348]
• Sunrise, ghosts disappear at, [390]
• Sussex beliefs, [11], [37], [150], [429]
• Swallow, ghost as, [86]
• Swan, soul in form of, [88]
• Swarth or fetch, [366]
• Swedish beliefs, [88], [125], [135], [229], [289], [356], [384]-[395]
• Swinsty Hall, [398]
• Switzerland, [161]
• Sykes Lumb Farm, [400]-[401]

• Tahiti beliefs, [3], [182]
• Talking dog, [311]
• Tasks, or wraiths, [370]
• Tasmanian belief, [340]
• Tears hinder exit of soul, [8]-[11]
• Tedworth, drummer of, [418]
• Thomas’s Day, St., [438]
• Thuringia, Duke Louis of, sign of his death, [99]
• Tibetan belief, [339]
• Tide, life goes out with, [15]-[16]
• Tipperahs of Chittagong, [181]
• Tongan belief, [29]
• Tower of London haunted, [314]-[315]
• Trash, spectre dog so called, [112]
• Treasures and ghosts, [397]-[410]
• —— guarded by evil spirits, [257]-[258]
• Trees, spirit-haunted, [391]-[396]
• Trevelyan, seat of, haunted, [321]
• Trinity Church, York, ghost at, [330]
• Tulloch Gorms, [221]
• Tyrolese superstitions, [4]

• Unbaptized, souls of, [136]

• Valentine’s Eve, St., [386]
• Vampires, [189]
• Vapour, soul as, [3]
• Vingoes, death token of, [221]
• Violets spring from graves, [393]

• Waddow Hall, [327]
• Waff, or fetch, [366]
• Wallow Crag, ghost laid under, [312]
• Walton Abbey, [306], [322]
• Warwickshire, [263]
• Water, relation of ghosts to, [181]-[182]
• Weasel, soul as, [110]
• Wells, haunted, [348]
• Welsh superstitions, [53], [116], [122], [140], [185], [189], [260]-[261], [404]-[405], [417]
• Wheal Vor, mine haunted at, [260], [434]
• Whistlers, the seven, [91]
• Whistling, voice of souls, [40]
• Whitby Abbey, [420]
• White-breasted bird, [97], [223]
• White Doe of Rylstone, [108]
• —— lady, [98], [227]-[229], [305], [326]-[327]
• —— —— of Skipsea, [306]
• —— —— of Sorrow, [273]
• Wicked priest, [321]
• Willington Mill, [306], [327]
• Willow tree, anecdote connected with, [223]
• Wimbell Pond haunted, [401]
• Wisk hounds, [118]
• Witchcraft, [7], [106]
• Woman of peace, [273]
• Worcestershire, [62], [100], [156], [192], [200], [226]
• Wraith-seeing, [363]-[381]
• Wren, superstition connected with, [93]
• Wyecoller Hall, [312]