Items matching ghosts

ghosts: dead people or animals.

Synonyms: phantoms, ghouls, wraiths

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The Vigil of Arms

Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“The most peculiar condition required for entry into knighthood was the “vigil of arms,” which consisted in keeping a long silent watch in some gloomy spot—a haunted one preferred—over the arms he was [...]

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, spooky, ghosts, occult, interiors

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-31

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Edward Kelly, A Magician

Astrology (1806)

Edward Kelly [sic for Kelley] in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person. Marked, Sibly Del, Ames Sculp., Dr. Dee’s Works. Part of the text is available as the second entry under necroman [...]

Keywords: astrology, occult, churches, ghosts, people, spooky, night scenes

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-03-10

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Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.

Legends of the Black Forest (1890)

A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman at [...]

Keywords: people, ghosts, spirit, spooky, owls, forests, knights, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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