The Creaking Stair. Ghostly Effects
produced by the Living but Absent. The Grocer's Cough. Difficulty of
Belief. My Gillie's Father's Story. "Silverton Abbey." The Dream
that Opened the Door. Abbotsford Noises. Legitimate Haunting by the
Dead. The Girl in Pink. The Dog in the Haunted Room. The Lady in
Black. Dogs Alarmed. The Dead Seldom Recognised. Glamis. A Border
Castle. Another Class of Hauntings. A Russian Case. The Dancing
Devil. The Little Hands.
Haunted houses have been familiar to man ever since he has owned a
roof to cover his head. The Australian blacks possessed only shelters
or "leans-to," so in Australia the spirits do their rapping on the
tree trunks; a native illustrated this by whacking a table with a
book. The perched-up houses of the Dyaks are haunted by noisy routing
agencies. We find them in monasteries, palaces, and crofters'
cottages all through the Middle Ages. On an ancient Egyptian papyrus
we find the husband of the Lady Onkhari protesting against her habit
of haunting his house, and exclaiming: "What wrong have I done,"
exactly in the spirit of the "Hymn of Donald Ban," who was "sair
hadden down by a bodach" (noisy bogle) after Culloden.
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