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Author: Zachary Graves Publisher: Chartwell Books ISBN: 9780785837428 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 0
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Ghosts traces the cultural and literary origins of the paranormal, reveals the secrets behind many mysterious myths and legends, and analyzes our continued fascination with visitors from the other side. With chapters on the origins of ghosts, poltergeists, ghosts from around the world, exorcism, haunted houses, and more, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat. Belief in ghosts is nothing new. Uncertainty surrounding death is part of the human condition and the existence of an afterlife is deeply rooted in most worldwide cultures and religions. In Taoism and Buddhism, the Hungry Ghost Festival celebrates the belief that, once a year, ghosts and spirits are released from the afterlife and walk among the living. In the west, ghost stories were established in ancient folklore and tend to embrace the same classic themes as today's horror movies: romance, tragedy, and terror. Writers of antiquity used ghosts and hauntings as a way to provide background information or foretell coming events, and Shakespeare, the father of English literature, used the same techniques in his plays. Glamis Castle, the infamous haunted Scottish setting for Shakespeare's Macbeth, is said to be on of the most nerve-wracking places on earth—but are these feelings imagined or real? At one time or another, most people have experienced a creepy, spine tingling, someone's watching you sort of sensation that they can't explain. Scientists may try to account for these fears by attributing them to the natural fear of the unknown. Cold spots are nothing more than an open window and creaking floorboards are nothing more than old wood shifting in place. Regardless, millions of people believe that there is much more to these strange phenomenons than can be explained by modern science. And really, who can say that they're wrong? Be informed, entertained, and frightened by this comprehensive volume about "the other side."
Author: Zachary Graves Publisher: Chartwell Books ISBN: 9780785837428 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Ghosts traces the cultural and literary origins of the paranormal, reveals the secrets behind many mysterious myths and legends, and analyzes our continued fascination with visitors from the other side. With chapters on the origins of ghosts, poltergeists, ghosts from around the world, exorcism, haunted houses, and more, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat. Belief in ghosts is nothing new. Uncertainty surrounding death is part of the human condition and the existence of an afterlife is deeply rooted in most worldwide cultures and religions. In Taoism and Buddhism, the Hungry Ghost Festival celebrates the belief that, once a year, ghosts and spirits are released from the afterlife and walk among the living. In the west, ghost stories were established in ancient folklore and tend to embrace the same classic themes as today's horror movies: romance, tragedy, and terror. Writers of antiquity used ghosts and hauntings as a way to provide background information or foretell coming events, and Shakespeare, the father of English literature, used the same techniques in his plays. Glamis Castle, the infamous haunted Scottish setting for Shakespeare's Macbeth, is said to be on of the most nerve-wracking places on earth—but are these feelings imagined or real? At one time or another, most people have experienced a creepy, spine tingling, someone's watching you sort of sensation that they can't explain. Scientists may try to account for these fears by attributing them to the natural fear of the unknown. Cold spots are nothing more than an open window and creaking floorboards are nothing more than old wood shifting in place. Regardless, millions of people believe that there is much more to these strange phenomenons than can be explained by modern science. And really, who can say that they're wrong? Be informed, entertained, and frightened by this comprehensive volume about "the other side."
Author: T. Fox Dunham Publisher: Ghosts, Spirits and Specters ISBN: 9781948318860 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 426
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Compiled and editied by the Dark Poet Princess herself - Xtina Marie - Ghosts, Spirits, & Specters boasts eighteen terrifying tales of ethereal and ghostly goings-on from the gloriously fevered minds of: Michael J. Moore, T. Fox Dunham, Richard Raven, Sarah Cannavo, DJ Tyrer, Kev Harrison, David F. Gray, Jon O'Bergh, Dustin Chisam, Bill Davidson, Nathan Helton, Brian James Lewis, Trevor Newton, R.C. Mulhare, Nikki D. Freeman, Laszlo Tamasfi, Dawson Goodell, and Eric Nash
Author: Kathryn Troy Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 1438466099 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 234
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Explores the significance of Indian control spirits as a dominating force in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism. The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism. By pulling together cultural and political history; the studies of religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly, Kathryn Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the prevalence of mystically styled Indians in American visual and popular culture. The connections between Spiritualist print and contemporary Indian policy provide fresh insight into the racial dimensions of social reform among nineteenth-century Spiritualists. Troy draws fascinating parallels between the contested belief of Indians as fading from the world, claims of returned apparitions, and the social impetus to provide American Indians with a means of existence in white America. Rather than vanishing from national sight and memory, Indians and their ghosts are shown to be ever present. This book transports the readers into dimly lit parlor rooms and darkened cabinets and lavishes them with detailed séance accounts in the words of those who witnessed them. Scrutinizing the otherworldly whisperings heard therein highlights the voices of mediums and those they sought to channel, allowing the author to dig deep into Spiritualist belief and practice. The influential presence of Indian ghosts is made clear and undeniable.
Author: Davis Pratt Publisher: ISBN: 9781948318921 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 334
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This second volume in our popular anthology series is a superlative collection of fifteen spine-chilling, marrow-icing, supernatural ghost stories that will have you hiding beneath the covers and reaching for the comfort of your nightlight's glow. Featuring tales of the otherworldly by: Lee Glenwright, Davis Pratt, Derek Muk, TS Alan, Nicholas Beishline, Marvin Brown, Kenneth Bykerk, Dustin Chisam, Alison Cybe, Virginia Elizabeth Hayes, Heddy Johannesen, Sylvia Son, Carl Alves, Thomas Kodnar, and Patrick W. Gibson.
Author: Michael Pye Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group ISBN: 1448892503 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 226
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This book is a collection of essays by a group of people on the front lines of inquiry into the paranormal, sharing their research and stories.
Author: James V. Burchill Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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Specters and Spirits of the Appalachian Foothillsallows you to hear the cries and meet the spirits that inhabit the mountains from northern Georgia to southern Virginia."
Author: Robert Curran Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing ISBN: 9780764164569 Category : Apparitions Languages : en Pages : 0
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Presents true accounts of ghost sightings around the world, along with basic information about different types of ghosts, ghost hunters, and how ancient civilizations viewed the beings.
Author: Adam Benedict Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 512
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Fantastic reports of documented encounters between the living and the dead! Remarkable stories collected from all over the globe! Are these tales proof spirits walk among us? Or are these nothing more than recorded instances of pratical jokes that went too far? This collection of over 200] articles, direct from newspapers of the 1800s and 1900s, brings some of North America's strangest, most unique, and truly unbelievable ghost encounters out of the past and into your hands! Presented with zero spin or bias, this book delivers just the facts and allows you, the reader, to decide for yourself if the stories within actually happened or not. Within these pages are 120 collected years of reported hoaxes, practical jokes, scientific investigations, long lost legends, forgotten folklore, unsolved mysteries, and true crime events. Within these pages are 120 years of GHOSTS IN PRINT.
Author: Manly P. Hall Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1789123828 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 71
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This book by Canadian-born mystical writer Manly P. Hall comprises of a series of lectures on nature spirits, thought forms, ghosts and specters, the dweller on the threshold. This compilation was first published in 1924.
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