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Andrew Lang on the Cock Lane ghost of 1762 and the long record of knocking, rapping and haunted houses, weighed with a folklorist's comparative eye. Pairs with his Book of Dreams and Ghosts already on the shelf.

SUBJECTSGhostsPoltergeistsPsychical research
TAGS#lang#cock-lane#poltergeist#haunted-houses

CONTENTS · 21

  1. 1PREFACE.8 MIN
  2. 2INTRODUCTION.29 MIN
  3. 3SAVAGE SPIRITUALISM.22 MIN
  4. 4ANCIENT SPIRITUALISM.25 MIN
  5. 5COMPARATIVE PSYCHICAL RESEARCH — part 112 MIN
  6. 6COMPARATIVE PSYCHICAL RESEARCH — part 212 MIN
  7. 7COMPARATIVE PSYCHICAL RESEARCH — part 312 MIN
  8. 8COMPARATIVE PSYCHICAL RESEARCH — part 46 MIN
  9. 9HAUNTED HOUSES33 MIN
  10. 10COCK LANE AND COMMON-SENSE19 MIN
  11. 11APPARITIONS, GHOSTS, AND HALLUCINATIONS.30 MIN
  12. 12SCRYING OR CRYSTAL-GAZING13 MIN
  13. 13THE SECOND SIGHT22 MIN
  14. 14GHOSTS BEFORE THE LAW26 MIN
  15. 15A MODERN TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT10 MIN
  16. 16PRESBYTERIAN GHOST HUNTERS.19 MIN
  17. 17THE LOGIC OF TABLE-TURNING28 MIN
  18. 18THE GHOST THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION — part 112 MIN
  19. 19THE GHOST THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION — part 212 MIN
  20. 20THE GHOST THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION — part 311 MIN
  21. 21THE GHOST THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION — part 42 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (Cock Lane and Common-Sense). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #12674). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.