A Phantom Cavalcade--The Miller on the Grey Horse--A Phantom Horse and Rider--The White Horse of Eastover--The Afrikander's Story--Heralds of Death--Phantom Coach in U.S.A.--A Story from Marseilles--Summary of Horses--Phantasms of Living Horses--Horses and the Psychic Faculty of Scent--Phantom Policeman and Horse--Phantom Huntsmen and Horses 139 CHAPTER IV BULLS, COWS, PIGS, ETC. The Kirk-grim--Phantasm of a Goat--Phantom Hogs of the Moat Grange--Sheep--Spectre Flock of Sheep in Germany 212 PART II CHAPTER V WILD ANIMALS AND THE UNKNOWN Animal Phantasms and the Moon--The Case of Martin Tristram--Phantasms of Cat and Ape--Hauntings by a White Rabbit--John Wesley's Ghost--Psychic Faculty in Hares and Rabbits 223 CHAPTER VI INHABITANTS OF THE JUNGLE Elephants, Lions, Tigers, etc.--The White Tiger--Jungle Animals and Psychic Faculties 254 PART III CHAPTER VII BIRDS AND THE UNKNOWN Case from _Occult Review_--Bird Hauntings in Russia--Hauntings in the Country Church--Capt. Morgan's Experiences--Addenda--Old Authorities on Bird Omens 273 CHAPTER VIII A BRIEF RETROSPECT 300 PART I DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE UNKNOWN ANIMAL GHOSTS CHAPTER I CATS In opening this volume on Animals and their associations with the unknown, I will commence with a case of hauntings in the Old Manor House, at Oxenby. My informant was a Mrs. Hartnoll, whom I can see in my mind's eye, as distinctly as if I were looking at her now. Hers was a personality that no lapse of time, nothing could efface; a personality that made itself felt on boys of all temperaments, most of all, of course, on those who--like myself--were highly strung and sensitive. She was classical mistress at L.'s, the then well-known dame school in Clifton, where for three years--prior to migrating to a Public School--I was well grounded in all the mysticisms of Kennedy's Latin Primer and Smith's First Greek Principia. I doubt if she got anything more than a very small salary--governesses in those days were shockingly remunerated--and I know,--poor soul, she had to work monstrously hard. Drumming Latin and Greek into heads as thick as ours was no easy task. But there were times, when the excessive tension on the nerves proving too much, Mrs. Hartnoll stole a little relaxation; when she allowed herself to chat with us, and even to smile--Heavens! those smiles! And when--I can feel the tingling of my pulses at the bare mention of it--she spoke about herself, stated she had once been young--a declaration so astounding, so utterly beyond our comprehension, that we were rendered quite speechless--and told us anecdotes.