Chapter Viii. Miscellaneous Supernormal Experiences : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 198 CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS SUPERNORMAL EXPERIENCES The matter in this chapter does not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the head of any of the preceding ones: it contains no account of houses or places...
Untitled : * There are numerous books about Irish Fairies, but this was one of the first to focus on the Irish Ghost. The text visits haunted houses from one end of the island to the other. We learn about garden-variety ghosts as well as poltergeists and Banshees, and find out what to do if a 'Headless...
Chapter Ii. Haunted Houses In Conn's Half : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 32 CHAPTER II HAUNTED HOUSES IN CONN'S HALF From a very early period a division of Ireland into two "halves" existed. This was traditionally believed to have been made by Conn the Hundred-fighter and Mogh Nuad...
Chapter V. Haunted Places : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 121 CHAPTER V HAUNTED PLACES That houses are haunted and apparitions frequently seen therein are pretty well established facts. The preceding chapters have dealt with this aspect of the subject, and, in view...
Chapter Vii. Banshees, And Other Death Warnings : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 175 CHAPTER VII BANSHEES, AND OTHER DEATH-WARNINGS Of all Irish ghosts, fairies, or bogies, the Banshee (sometimes called locally the "Bohntha" or "Bankntha") is the best known to the general public: indeed...
Chapter X. Mistaken Identity Conclusion : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 249 CHAPTER X MISTAKEN IDENTITY--CONCLUSION We have given various instances of ghostly phenomena wherein the witnesses have failed at first to realise that what they saw partook in any way of the abnormal. There...
Chapter Iv. Poltergeists : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 100 CHAPTER IV POLTERGEISTS Poltergeist is the term assigned to those apparently meaningless noises and movements of objects of which we from time to time hear accounts. The word is, of course, German, and may be...
Chapter I. Haunted Houses In Or Near Dublin : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 1 TRUE IRISH GHOST STORIES CHAPTER I HAUNTED HOUSES IN OR NEAR DUBLIN Of all species of ghostly phenomena, that commonly known as "haunted houses" appeals most to the ordinary person. There is something very...
Chapter Ix. Legendary And Ancestral Ghosts : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 223 CHAPTER IX LEGENDARY AND ANCESTRAL GHOSTS Whatever explanations may be given of the various stories told in our previous chapters, the facts as stated therein are in almost every case vouched for on reliable...
Chapter Iii. Haunted Houses In Mogh's Half : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 55 CHAPTER III HAUNTED HOUSES IN MOGH'S HALF The northern half of Ireland has not proved as prolific in stories of haunted houses as the southern portion: the possible explanation of this is, not that the men...
Title Page : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], TRUE IRISH GHOST STORIES COMPILED BY ST. JOHN D. SEYMOUR AND HARRY L NELIGAN Dublin, Hodges, Figgis [1914] Scanned, proofed and formatted May 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US...
Chapter Vi. Apparitions At Or After Death : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. 146 CHAPTER VI APPARITIONS AT OR AFTER DEATH It has been said by a very eminent literary man that the accounts of the appearance of people at or shortly after the moment of death make very dull reading...
Foreword : * "True Irish Ghost Stories", by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, [1914], p. xi FOREWORD This book had its origin on this wise. In my "Irish Witchcraft and Demonology", published in October 1913, I inserted a couple of famous 17th century ghost stories which described how lawsuits were...