The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-SeersCrowe, Catherine
Religion
The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers
Crowe, Catherine
Ghosts; Parapsychology
At the Leipsic fair, lodgings are often very scarce, and on one occasion
a stranger, who had arrived late in the evening, had some difficulty in
finding a bed. At length he found a vacant chamber in the house of a
citizen. It was one they made no use of, but they said he was welcome to
it; and, weary and sleepy, he gladly accepted the offer. Fatigued as he
was, however, he was disturbed by some unaccountable noises, of which he
complained to his hosts in the morning. They pacified him by some
excuses; but the next night, not long after he had gone to bed, he came
down stairs in great haste, with his portmanteau on his shoulder,
declaring he would not stay there another hour for the world; for that a
lady, in a strange old-fashioned dress, had come into the room with a
dagger in her hand, and made threatening gestures at him. He accordingly
went away, and the room was shut up again; but some time afterward, a
servant-girl in the family of this citizen, being taken ill, they were
obliged to put her into that room, in order to separate her from the
rest of the family. Here she recovered her health rapidly; and as she
had never complained of any annoyance, she was asked, when she was quite
well, whether anything particular had happened while she inhabited that
chamber. “Oh, yes,” she answered; “every night there came a strange lady
into the room, who sat herself on the bed and stroked me with her hand,
and I believe it is to her I owe my speedy recovery; but I could never
get her to speak to me—she only sighs and weeps.”
Not very long since, a gentleman set out, one fine midsummer’s evening,
when it is light all night in Scotland, to walk from Montrose to
Brechin. As he approached a place called Dunn, he observed a lady
walking on before, which, from the lateness of the hour, somewhat
surprised him. Sometime afterward, he was found by the early laborers
lying on the ground, near the churchyard, in a state of insensibility.
All he could tell them was, that he had followed this lady till she had
turned her head and looked round at him, when, seized with horror, he
had fainted. “Oh,” said they, “you have seen the lady of Dunn.” What is
the legend attached to this lady of Dunn, I do not know.
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