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.BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND — BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND CHAPTER I THE UNKNOWN BRAIN
- 4.CHAPTER II THE OCCULT IN SHADOWS
- 5.CHAPTER III OBSESSION, POSSESSION — Clocks, Chests and Mummies
- 6.CHAPTER IV OCCULT HOOLIGANS
- 7.CHAPTER V SYLVAN HORRORS
- 8.CHAPTER VI COMPLEX HAUNTINGS AND OCCULT BESTIALITIES
- 9.CHAPTER VII VAMPIRES, WERE-WOLVES, FOX-WOMEN, ETC. — Vampires — Were-wolves — Fox-women
- 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.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.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.CHAPTER XI OCCULT INHABITANTS OF THE SEA AND RIVERS — Phantom Ships — The Sargasso Sea — River Ghosts — Sirens
- 14.CHAPTER XII BUDDHAS AND BOGGLE CHAIRS — The Barrowvian — Boggle Chairs — Footnotes:
- 15.INDEX — Transcriber's Note:
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