Night Side of Nature - Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers

Klappentext This best-selling collection of ghost stories! intertwined with supernatural interpretations! is a classic example of early Victorian spiritualist writing. Zusammenfassung Crowe's collection of ghostly and psychic tales was a nineteenth-century best-seller. Volume 1 includes stories on presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions and the after-life. It is a wonderful example of early Victorian spiritualist writing and marks the apogee of the nineteenth century's fascination with the supernatural. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The dweller in the temple; 3. Waking and sleeping, and how the dweller in the temple sometimes looks abroad; 4. Allegorical dreams, presentiments, &c.; 5. Warnings; 6. Double dreaming and trance, wraiths, &c.; 7. Wraiths; 8. Doppelgangers, or doubles; 9. Apparitions; 10. The future that awaits us.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Crowe, Crowe Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2011
• EAN: 9781108027496
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02749-6
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge; The Night Side of Nature 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, Spiritualism