BOOK II.
THE SPIRIT-WORLD.
Where the wan spectres walk eternal rounds.
Pope.
Miranda. What is’t? a spirit?
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave form:—But ’tis a spirit.
Shakspeare: Tempest.
CHAPTER I.
Modern Superstition regarding Ghosts—American ‘Spiritualism’—Welsh Beliefs—Classification of Welsh Ghosts—Departed Mortals—Haunted Houses—Lady Stradling’s Ghost—The Haunted Bridge—The Legend of Catrin Gwyn—Didactic Purpose in Cambrian Apparitions—An Insulted Corpse—Duty-performing Ghosts—Laws of the Spirit-World—Cadogan’s Ghost.