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Byways of Ghost-Land

Byways of Ghost-Land

by Elliott O'Donnell

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About this eBook

Author
O'Donnell, Elliott, 1872-1965
Credits
Produced by Mark C. Orton, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Subject
Ghosts
Category
Text
eBook-No.
30440
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30440
Release Date
November 9, 2009
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND — BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND CHAPTER I THE UNKNOWN BRAIN
  4. 4.CHAPTER II THE OCCULT IN SHADOWS
  5. 5.CHAPTER III OBSESSION, POSSESSION — Clocks, Chests and Mummies
  6. 6.CHAPTER IV OCCULT HOOLIGANS
  7. 7.CHAPTER V SYLVAN HORRORS
  8. 8.CHAPTER VI COMPLEX HAUNTINGS AND OCCULT BESTIALITIES
  9. 9.CHAPTER VII VAMPIRES, WERE-WOLVES, FOX-WOMEN, ETC. — Vampires — Were-wolves — Fox-women
  10. 10.CHAPTER VIII DEATH WARNINGS AND FAMILY GHOSTS — Corpse-candles — Fire-coffins — The Death-watch — Owls — Ravens — Mermaids — The Wandering Jew — Attendant Spirits — Banshees — Scottish Ghosts — English Family Ghosts — Welsh Ghosts
  11. 11.CHAPTER IX "SUPERSTITIONS AND FORTUNES" — Thirteen at Table — Spilling Salt — Looking-glasses — Psychic Days — Fortune-telling — Palmistry — Pyromancy — Hydromancy — The Crystal — Talismans and Amulets — "The Evil Eye" — Witches
  12. 12.CHAPTER X THE HAND OF GLORY; THE BLOODY HAND OF ULSTER; THE SEVENTH SON; BIRTHMARKS; NATURE'S DEVIL SIGNALS; PRE-EXISTENCE; THE FUTURE; PROJECTION; TELEPATHY, ETC. — The Hand of Glory — The Bloody Hand of Ulster — The Seventh Son — Birthmarks — Nature's Devil Signals — Pre-existence and the Future — Projection — Telepathy and Suggestion — The Psychic Faculty and Second Sight — Intuition — Clairvoyance — Automatic Writing — Table-turning — Charms and Checks against Ghosts
  13. 13.CHAPTER XI OCCULT INHABITANTS OF THE SEA AND RIVERS — Phantom Ships — The Sargasso Sea — River Ghosts — Sirens
  14. 14.CHAPTER XII BUDDHAS AND BOGGLE CHAIRS — The Barrowvian — Boggle Chairs — Footnotes:
  15. 15.INDEX — Transcriber's Note:

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