They were gorgeous ghost stories, for they were told by a man fully informed as to all the legendary and gruesome details.

A dead town turned into a ghost town.

XI SUPREME GODS NOT NECESSARILY DEVELOPED OUT OF 'SPIRITS' Before going on to examine the high gods of other low savages, I must here again insist on and develop the theory, not easily conceived by us, that the Supreme Being of savages belongs to another branch of faith than ghosts, or ghost-gods, or fetishes, or Totems, and need not beprobably is notessentially derived from these.

The ideas and sentiments at the basis of Ecclesiastical Institutions have been naturally derived from the ghost-theory already described.

We should, à priori, deem it impossible to discover more among the lower savages than a rude religion of ghost-worship, without any consciousness of a moral Supreme Being, the father and friend of man.

" I was surprised at that until he explained that it was only a ghost-ship and would do no hurt to the turnips.

My blood got a sort of chill in my veins at the idea that Roland should be a ghost-seer; for that generally means a hysterical temperament and weak health, and all that men most hate and fear for their children.

When they said this, Heavy Collar's heart grew very heavy, for he knew that it must have been the ghost woman; and he told them the story.

"Serene mid love's alarms, For all time shall the Maids-at-Arms, Wearing the ghost-ring, triumph with their constancy.

Here is an almost perfect example of the most modern method of handling a ghost-tale.

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Of the ghost dance and its serious import, readers of the daily papers are familiar.

ANIMISM, a belief that there is a psychical body within the physical body of a living being, correspondent with it in attributes, and that when the connection between them is dissolved by death the former lives on in a ghostly form; in other words, a belief of a ghost-soul existing conjointly with and subsisting apart from the body, its physical counterpart.

At night the gnat's ghost returns to rebuke the shepherd for his innocent ingratitude, and rather inappropriately remains to rehearse at great length the tale of what shades of old heroes he has seen in the lower regions.

I know thy ghost doth hover hereabout, Expecting me, thy heart, to follow thee:

[Footnote 1: The Ghost here judges, as alone is possible to him, from what he knowsfrom the fact that his brother Claudius has not yet made his appearance in the ghost-world.

"I come now to the end of the captain's ghost play; and to the difficulty of trying to explain the other peculiar things.

" "What's up?" "A ghost hunt, unless I'm very much mistaken.

It is only needed for the evolution of ghost-propitiation and genuine dead-ancestor worship.

You are seeking your wife, who is now in the ghost country.

" There was no 'elp for it, and arter making 'im swear to give me the rest o' the money when 'e got it, and that I shouldn't see the ghost agin, I 'anded the things over to 'im and came away.

They only supply Mr. Spencer's 'Ecclesiastical Institutions' with a few instances of the ghost-belief.

The ghost book.

Walt Coburn (A); 22Nov65; R374119. Ghost boss of the missing trail crew.

CLEMENS, ELIZABETH H. Life in the ghost city of Rhyolite, Nevada, by Betsy Ritter, pseud.