Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Living Ghost" is a fairly good piece of description but not especially noteworthy...
...Siegfried's solos were well received, as well as the bloody murder of Siegfried by the villain Hagen. In the fourth act, the wailing dirge, "Why did he die," sung intentionally out of tune by the chorus, and the grovelling on the ground and appearance of Siegfried's ghost which followed, were well applauded. Then followed a number of tricks by Hagen and Gunther, which were very well received. The act closed with two choruses and a song and chorus, in which solos were very well sung by each of the principals. The acting of the principals deserves mention, especially...
...included visions of dying people. It has been supposed that all such visions can be accounted for by the theory that the spirit of the living person leaves its body and appears to others at a distance. This theory is difficult of belief, because in all recorded cases the ghost appears clothed, and it can hardly be conceived that an old hat has a spirit which can leave the hat and appear at a distance. An effort has been made to explain the apparitions by "telepathy," which may be defined as the ability of one mind to impress another without...
...With the ghost of "Bloody Monday" night hovering just ahead of us, it behoves us to speak of some quaint old rites which in years gone by used to take place on this first Monday of the college year, and which marked a lower stage in the development of our mental and moral faculties; for we will not venture to suppose that the roots from which these ancient customs grew are still lying hidden in the college soil. Long ago, then, as we said, it used to be customary for the new-fledged sophomores to serve notices upon the budding...
...principal features of the Christmas number of Harpers Weekly are "A Christmas Fantasy" drawn by F. S. Church, and a ghost story written by Julian Hawthorne...