The Ghost World. Dyer Thomas Firminger Thiselton

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into the ground with a frightful shriek, or in some mysterious manner disappears. When struck, the weapon passes through it as if it were a mere shadow. In Norfolk and Cambridgeshire this apparition is known to the peasantry by the name of ‘shuck’ – the provincial word for ‘shag’ – and is reported to haunt churchyards and other lonely places. A dreary lane in the parish of Overstrand is called from this spectral animal ‘Shuck’s Lane,’ and it is said that if the spot where it has been seen be examined after its disappearance, it will be found to be scorched, and strongly impregnated with the smell of brimstone. Mrs. Latham tells119 how a man of notoriously bad character, who lived in a lonely spot at the foot of the South Downs, without any companion of either sex, was believed to be nightly haunted by evil spirits in the form of rats. Persons passing by his cottage late at night heard him cursing them, and desiring them to let him rest in peace. It was supposed they were sent to do judgment on him, and would carry him away some night. But he received his death-blow in a drunken brawl.

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      1

      xxiii. 100; Keary’s Outlines of Primitive Belief, p. 284.

      2

      The Three Principles, chap. xix. ‘Of the Going Forth of the Soul.’

      3

      Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 252.

      4

      Primitive Culture, 1873, i. p. 457.

      5

      1st S. ii. p. 51.

      6

      Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 257.

      7

      Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 433; Brinton’s Myths of the New World, p. 253.

      8

      Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore, 1867, p. 210.

      9

      1st S. i. p. 315.

      10

      Cf. ‘Nexosque resolveret artus,’ Virgil on the death of Dido. Æneid iv. 695.

      11

      See Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 302, and Notes and Queries, 1st S. iv. p. 350.

      12

      Ibid. i. p. 467.

      13

      1st S. iii. p. 84.

1

xxiii. 100; Keary’s Outlines of Primitive Belief, p. 284.

2

The Three Principles, chap. xix. ‘Of the Going Forth of the Soul.’

3

Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 252.

4

Primitive Culture, 1873, i. p. 457.

5

1st S. ii. p. 51.

6

Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 257.

7

Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 433; Brinton’s Myths of the New World, p. 253.

8

Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore, 1867, p. 210.

9

1st S. i. p. 315.

10

Cf. ‘Nexosque resolveret artus,’ Virgil on the death of Dido. Æneid iv. 695.

11

See Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 302, and Notes and Queries, 1st S. iv. p. 350.

12

Ibid. i. p. 467.

13

1st S. iii. p. 84.

14

Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore, pp. 127-128.

15

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 43.

16

In a note to Redgauntlet, Letter xi.

17

Folk-lore Record, i. pp. 59-60.

18

Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

19

Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 60-61.

20

See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 145.

21

Iliad, ii. 852.

22

Illustrations of Shakspeare, 1839, pp. 324-326.

23

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 40.

24

Tylor’s Anthropology, 1881, p. 343.

25

See further instances in Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. pp. 440, 441.

26

Fiji and the Fijians, i. p. 242.

27

See Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, 1870, p. 141.

28

Werewolves, p. 29.

29

See Chapter on Second Sight.

30

See Tylor’s Anthropology, p. 345; and Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, p. 141; and H. Spencer’s Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 777.

31

Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 174.

32

De Anima, p. 9; see Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 456.

33

Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 174.

34

See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 457.

35

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 20.

36

Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 456.

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