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
the white lady suddenly stepped from behind a screen and said: “Zehn uhr
ist es ihr liebden!”—“It is ten o’clock, your love!” which is the mode
in which the sovereign princes address each other, instead of “your
highness.” The princess was much alarmed, soon fell sick, and died in a
few weeks. She has frequently evinced displeasure at the exhibition of
impiety or vice; and there are many records of her different appearances
to be found in the works of Balbinus and of Erasmus Francisci; and in a
publication called “The Iris,” published in Frankfort in 1819, the
editor, George Doring, who is said to have been a man of great
integrity, gives the following account of one of her later appearances,
which he declares he received just as he gives it, from the lips of his
own mother, on whose word and judgment he could perfectly rely; and
shortly before his death, an inquiry being addressed to him with regard
to the correctness of the narration, he vouched for its authenticity.
It seems that the elder sister of his mother was companion to one of the
ladies of the court, and that the younger ones were in the habit of
visiting her frequently. Two of these (Doring’s mother and another),
aged fourteen and fifteen, were once spending a week with her, when she
being out and they alone with their needlework, chattering about the
court diversions, they suddenly heard the sound of a stringed
instrument, like a harp, which seemed to proceed from behind a large
stove that occupied one corner of the room. Half in fear and half in
fun, one of the girls took a yard measure that lay beside them, and
struck the spot, whereupon the music ceased, but the stick was wrested
from her hand. She became alarmed; but the other, named Christina,
laughed and said she must have fancied it, adding that the music
doubtless proceeded from the street, though they could not descry any
musicians. To get over her fright, of which she was half ashamed, the
former now ran out of the room to visit a neighbor for a few minutes;
but when she returned, she found Christina lying on the floor in a
swoon, who, on being revived with the aid of the attendants who had
heard a scream, related, that no sooner had her sister left her than the
sound was repeated, close to the stove, and a white figure had appeared
and advanced toward her, whereupon she had screamed and fainted.
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