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Title: Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Author: Lacy Collison-Morley

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GREEK AND ROMAN GHOST STORIES

by

LACY COLLISON-MORLEY

Formerly Scholar of St. John's College, Oxford

Author of "Giuseppe Baretti and His Friends," "Modern Italian
Literature"

Oxford
B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street
London
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Limited

MCMXII

This collection was originally begun at the suggestion of Mr. Marion
Crawford, whose wide and continual reading of the classics supplied more
than one of the stories. They were put together during a number of years
of casual browsing among the classics, and will perhaps interest others
who indulge in similar amusements.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. THE POWER OF THE DEAD TO RETURN TO EARTH 1

II. THE BELIEF IN GHOSTS IN GREECE AND ROME 13

III. STORIES OF HAUNTING 19

IV. NECROMANCY 33

V. VISIONS OF THE DEAD IN SLEEP 45

VI. APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD 54

VII. WARNING APPARITIONS 72

I

THE POWER OF THE DEAD TO RETURN TO EARTH

Though there is no period at which the ancients do not seem to have
believed in a future life, continual confusion prevails when they come
to picture the existence led by man in the other world, as we see from
the sixth book of the _AEneid_. Combined with the elaborate mythology of
Greece, we are confronted with the primitive belief of Italy, and
doubtless of Greece too--a belief supported by all the religious rites
in connection with the dead--that the spirits of the departed lived on
in the tomb with the body. A