item: #1 of 6
          id: 16099
      author: Balfour, Frederic Henry
       title: Austin and His Friends
        date: None
       words: 65394
      flesch: 81
     summary: Where _is_ Austin, and why doesn't he open the door? At last Austin, waiting behind a door, heard her enter her room to dress.
    keywords: able; account; actor; affair; afraid; afternoon; air; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; artist; asleep; attempt; attention; aubyn; aunt charlotte; auntie; austin; bad; bankers; banqueting; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; best; better; bit; black; blue; body; books; boy; boys; breath; bright; brown; business; buskin; care; case; certain; chapter; charming; church; clear; close; clothes; cold; common; conscious; consciousness; continued; conversation; cool; country; course; court; creature; curate; curious; daphnis; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; dear austin; death; delightful; different; dinner; dog; door; doubt; drawing; dream; dress; early; earth; effect; elderly; entire; excited; excitement; existence; expected; experiences; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faint; fall; fancy; father; feeling; fields; fine; flowers; folks; fond; foot; form; fountain; fresh; friend; frightened; funny; garden; gate; general; gentleman; ghosts; glad; god; gold; good; grass; great; greatest; green; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hat; haunted; head; heart; heaven; help; high; highest; hold; home; hope; horrible; horrid; hot; hour; house; human; idea; instance; interest; interesting; invisible; judge; kind; knitting; ladies; lady; land; lane; large; lawn; leave; left; leg; legs; life; like; little; live; living; london; long; look; looking; lord; lovely; lubin; lunch; mactavishes; magnificent; making; man; manner; married; martha; master austin; matter; meadow; meet; merthyr; mind; minutes; modest; moment; money; moon; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; mysterious; mystery; narrow; natural; nature; near; necessary; new; nice; night; noise; nonsense; occasion; ogilvie; old; omnibus; open; opportunity; order; pain; pale; particular; past; people; perfect; person; pictures; place; pleasant; pleasure; pocket; point; pool; poor; position; possible; presence; present; pretty; proper; pure; quarter; queer; question; quiet; raps; reading; real; reason; red; religion; reply; river; road; roger; roof; room; rose; round; safe; sake; sardanapalus; saying; scene; school; sea; self; sense; set; sheepshanks; silence; silent; silly; single; sir; sitting; sky; small; smile; sorry; sort; soul; spite; st aubyn; stage; stone; story; straight; strange; strong; subject; sudden; sun; sure; surprise; sweet; talk; tea; tell; theatre; things; thinking; thought; time; tired; tongue; town; train; traveller; trees; trouble; true; truth; turning; tydvil; unable; unseen; usual; vicar; view; visitor; voice; walk; walking; wall; want; watch; water; way; week; white; wide; window; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; wooden; words; work; world; worse; years; yellow; young; youth
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 29412
      author: Calmet, Augustin
       title: The Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.
        date: None
       words: 194433
      flesch: 67
     summary: This is a kind of momentary resurrection, or revival; for whereas the other dead persons spoken of in Scripture have lived, drank, eaten and conversed with other men after their return to life, as Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha,[450] and the son of the widow of Shunem, resuscitated by Elisha.[451] These appeared during a certain time, in certain places, in certain circumstances; and appear no more as soon as they have been impaled, or burned, or have had their heads cut off. In the same place he quotes Heraclius, who says that the Nasamones, people of Africa, pass the night by the tombs of their near relations to receive oracles from the latter; and that the Celts, or Gauls, do the same thing in the mausoleums of great men, as related by Nicander. Lucan says[173] that the magicians, by their spells, cause thunder in the skies unknown to Jupiter; that they tear the moon from her sphere, and precipitate her to earth; that they disturb the course of nature, prolong the nights, and shorten the days; that the universe is obedient to their voice, and that the world is chilled as it were when they speak and command.[174] They were so well persuaded that the magicians possessed power to make the moon come down from the sky, and they so truly believed that she was evoked by magic art whenever she was eclipsed, that they made a great noise by striking on copper vessels, to prevent the voice which pronounced enchantments from reaching her.[175] These popular opinions and poetical fictions deserve no credit, but they show the force of prejudice.[176]
    keywords: abbot; able; abominable; abraham; absent; absolution; account; accustomed; actions; acts; adventure; affair; air; alive; almighty; ancient; angels; animals; animated; answer; antiquity; apostles; apparitions; appearance; appearing; archbishop; arguments; army; ashes; assemblies; attention; augustine; author; authority; awake; aërial; babylon; bad; balaam; baptism; bar; battle; bear; bed; beelzebub; beginning; belief; bernard; bishop; black; blessed; blood; boasted; bodies; bodily; body; bones; book; boy; brain; brethren; broken; brother; calmet; canon; capable; cardinal; care; cases; catholic; cause; celebrated; century; ceremonies; certain; certain persons; certain time; certainty; chaldeans; chamber; change; chapter; characters; charles; charms; chief; children; christ; christians; church; churches; circumstances; city; clever; clothes; coffin; combat; coming; command; common; communion; compact; companions; company; condition; conduct; confidence; consecrated; consequence; constantinople; contrary; convinced; corporeal; corpse; corrupt; corrupted; council; countries; country; court; covered; credit; credulity; credulous; crimes; cross; cure; curiosity; curious; curé; custom; cut; cæsar; dangerous; darkness; daughter; day; days; de st; dead; dead man; dead persons; deal; death; decay; deceased; deceive; defunct; demon; desert; design; desire; despair; devil; devotion; diabolical; different; difficulties; difficulty; disciples; discourse; disorder; disposed; dissertation; distance; disturbed; divers; divine; diviners; divinity; doctor; doctrine; dog; domestics; door; doubt; doubtful; dream; duke; dwelling; earth; easy; ecclesiastical; edition; effects; efforts; egyptians; emperor; empire; enchantments; enemies; enemy; england; enlightened; epist; error; evening; event; evident; evils; evodius; examination; examples; excommunicated; exercise; existence; exod; exorcisms; experience; express; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; fabulous; face; fact; faculty; faith; faithful; fall; false; falsehood; familiar; family; famous; fancy; fascination; fast; fatal; father; favor; fear; feet; fever; figure; fine; fire; flesh; following; food; foolish; footnotes; force; form; foundation; french; friends; frightened; frightful; future; garden; gaufredi; general; genii; genius; gentleman; german; ghosts; girl; glass; glory; god; gods; going; gold; good; good angels; gospel; governor; grand; grave; great; greater; greatest; greeks; gregory; ground; guard; guilty; hair; half; hand; harm; haunted; head; health; heart; heated; heaven; hebrews; height; hell; help; henry; hidden; high; historians; history; hocque; hold; holy; home; honor; hope; horses; hour; house; human; humbert; hungary; hurt; husband; ibid; idea; idolatry; ignatius; ignorance; ignorant; iii; illusions; images; imagination; impiety; important; impossible; impression; incredible; infinite; information; informed; inhabitants; inspired; instances; interest; invisible; israelites; jerome; jerusalem; jesus; jews; job; john; joseph; journey; judges; judgment; justice; kind; king; kingdom; knowledge; known; lady; language; large; latin; laugh; law; laws; lead; learned; leave; left; length; letter; lib; life; like; linen; little; lives; living; long; longer; lord; lorraine; louis; love; lucian; luke; lying; m. de; mademoiselle; magic; magical; magicians; maladies; malady; malice; man; mankind; manner; marks; marquis; martin; martyr; martyrdom; marvelous; mass; masses; matter; maur; means; melancholy; memory; men; mention; michael; middle; midst; mind; miracles; miraculous; mislead; modern; moment; monastery; money; monk; months; moravia; morning; mortals; moses; mother; motion; motionless; mount; mouth; movements; multitude; nails; names; nations; natural; nature; near; necessary; new; news; night; noise; non; notice; number; nuns; o'clock; objections; obliged; observe; obsessions; occasion; officers; old; open; opening; operations; opinion; oracles; order; origen; pagans; page; pain; paris; parliament; particular; party; passages; past; patriarch; paul; pay; peasant; penance; people; permission; persians; persons; persuaded; peter; phantom; pharaoh; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physician; pieces; pierre; place; plague; plato; pliny; plutarch; poets; point; poland; pompey; poor; pope; popular; possessed; possession; power; powerful; practice; prayers; preceding; predictions; prejudices; prepossession; presence; present; pretended; pretty; priest; prince; principal; principle; printed; prison; prodigies; produce; profession; promise; pronounced; proof; proper; prophets; proved; précy; public; punishment; purgatory; quantity; question; rambouillet; read; reader; reality; reason; reasoning; received; recital; recourse; regard; related; relations; religion; remains; remark; remarkable; replies; reply; report; respect; rest; restore; resurrection; resuscitated; retired; return; revelation; revenans; reverend; rich; ridiculous; rise; river; romans; rome; room; rose; rules; sabbath; sacred; sacrifice; said; saint; salvation; samuel; satan; saul; saviour; scripture; sea; second; secret; senses; sensible; sentence; serpent; servant; service; shape; shepherd; short; shows; sign; silence; similar; simon; simple; simplicity; singular; sins; sleep; small; soldier; sorcerers; sorcery; sorts; souls; sound; speak; species; spectre; spells; spirit; spiritual; spot; spread; standing; stanislaus; state; stephen; stones; stories; strange; strength; striking; study; subject; substances; subtile; suck; sudden; superior; supernatural; superstition; support; surprised; surprising; sword; system; tacit; temple; terms; terrible; testament; testimony; thee; theology; things; thinking; thither; thomas; thought; throne; time; tomb; tongue; torment; town; trance; treasure; treatise; trouble; true; truth; uncertain; unknown; useless; usual; uttered; vain; value; vampires; vampirism; vault; venerable; verses; viii; village; violent; virgin; virtue; visible; vision; vita; voice; volumes; walk; wall; war; water; way; ways; weeks; white; wicked; widow; wife; wine; wished; witchcraft; witches; witnesses; wizards; woman; wonderful; wonders; wood; words; work; world; worship; worthy; wretched; writers; writing; wrong; xii; xiii; xiv; xix; xvi; xvii; xxi; xxii; xxiv; xxviii; years; young; young man
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 31341
      author: Taylor, Joseph
       title: Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed
        date: None
       words: 49570
      flesch: 68
     summary: Sometimes they are found in the plastering of a wall, and at other times in a rotten post, or in some old chest or trunk; and the noise is made by beating its head on the subject that it finds fit for sound. Sometimes a friendly ghost surprises you with a hand as cold as clay; at other times, that same ghostly hand gives three solemn raps, with several particularities, according to the different dispositions of the ghost.
    keywords: abbé; account; act; affair; alarmed; answer; apartment; apparition; appearance; approach; assistance; astonishment; attention; barbarosse; bed; billows; bishop; black; blood; body; boy; bridge; broken; candle; care; castle; cause; certain; chair; chamber; character; child; children; church; circumstances; close; clothes; clouds; coffin; cold; commissioners; company; conversation; corpse; country; courage; course; court; credulous; curiosity; dark; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deep; determined; devil; different; dinner; discovery; distance; dog; domino; door; dreadful; dream; effect; evening; event; extraordinary; eyes; face; fall; family; fancy; fast; fatal; father; fear; feet; fellow; female; field; figure; finding; fire; floor; following; foot; friar; friend; frightened; funeral; gentleman; ghost; gille; girl; glass; god; good; grave; great; greatest; green; half; hand; hat; haunted; head; hearing; heart; high; hollow; holy; home; hope; hour; house; husband; imagination; inhabitants; inn; instant; john; junker; justice; kind; king; knife; knocking; known; ladies; lady; landlord; lane; lanthorn; large; lay; leave; left; length; letter; life; like; lindorf; little; living; long; look; lost; love; maid; man; manner; mareschal; mary; master; means; melancholy; mercy; middle; midnight; mind; moment; money; monsieur; moon; morning; mother; murder; mysterious; mystery; nature; near; neighbourhood; new; night; noise; number; o'clock; o'er; object; observed; occasion; old; open; order; pale; parish; particular; party; past; people; person; phenomenon; philosopher; place; plain; pocket; poor; possible; power; prayers; present; priest; proper; public; purpose; question; reason; related; relation; remarkable; remember; resolution; rest; return; room; round; safety; sea; second; secret; servants; set; short; silence; silent; singular; sir; sister; situation; skull; sleep; small; solemn; spectre; spirit; stairs; state; stood; stories; story; strange; strong; subject; sudden; sun; supernatural; superstitious; supposed; surprise; table; terrified; terror; thee; thing; thought; thy; time; tone; town; truth; unfortunate; usual; vain; vault; view; village; visible; vision; visit; voice; watch; water; way; west; white; wife; wind; window; woman; wood; words; world; yard; years; young; youth
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 34475
      author: Brackett, Edward Augustus
       title: Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They
        date: None
       words: 23480
      flesch: 64
     summary: For some reason which we do not understand, but which may be a necessity, the controlling spirit of the séance exercises a more or less despotic power over the manifestations; sometimes denying the privilege of manifestation, and forcing back spirits who have been accustomed to appear at other séances. She returned to the cabinet, and many forms came out and were recognized.
    keywords: able; appearance; arms; association; atmosphere; attention; audience; auntie; bearing; beautiful; beauty; beings; berry; bertha; best; body; boston; brackett; cabinet; chance; chapter; character; circle; close; conditions; confederate; control; corner; curtain; dark; different; door; doubt; dress; dressed; earth; entranced; evidence; existence; experience; expression; face; facts; fairchild; fay; feeling; feet; following; force; forms; fraud; friend; good; great; hand; head; honest; individual; intelligent; investigation; knowledge; known; lack; lady; left; letter; life; light; like; little; long; magnetic; magnetism; manifestations; materialization; materialized; matter; medium; mental; mesmerism; mind; moment; mrs; nature; near; necessary; neck; new; objects; old; opinion; outside; persons; phenomena; piece; possible; power; presence; present; progress; public; question; regard; relations; resemblance; room; rose; sawyer; saying; science; scientific; scientists; seat; seen; simple; spirit; spiritual; state; strength; strong; study; subject; surroundings; séance; test; things; thought; time; true; truth; view; visible; voice; way; white; whitlock; wife; wonderful; years
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 35029
      author: Bashford, H. H. (Henry Howarth), Sir
       title: Half-Past Bedtime
        date: None
       words: 45298
      flesch: 88
     summary: And the sailor Said to me: Birth's the jetty, Time's the sea, Death's the harbour, Life's the trip, Hope's the pilot, You're the ship. Then they heard a strange sort of coughing and grunting and spluttering, and they saw the oddest of little men.
    keywords: able; adam; afternoon; air; angels; apples; arms; asleep; aunt; bank; barrington; beardy; bed; beginning; bella; better; big; bit; blind; blue; box; boy; boys; brown; bumpies; captain; children; christmas; christopher; clothes; coloured; corner; country; course; cuthbert; dark; darkness; day; dear; deep; dog; door; doris; edward; eve; eyes; face; far; fast; father; feet; fields; fire; floor; flute; fly; friend; frightened; garden; gate; girl; god; good; grass; great; grey; gwendolen; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; high; hill; hold; home; hot; house; hubbard; ice; illustration; island; jeremy; joe; jugg; lady; lancelot; leaves; left; life; lights; like; little; little girl; liz; long; looking; lord; lost; love; man; marian; mark; middle; miles; mind; minute; miss; moment; monkey; moon; morning; mother; mrs; mummy; near; ned; new; night; old; open; party; past; penny; people; peter; picture; pipe; place; playing; pleased; poor; queer; real; river; road; room; round; sailor; school; sea; ship; silly; singing; sitting; sky; snow; song; sort; square; standing; strange; stream; street; sun; sure; talk; tea; thing; thought; time; tod; town; tree; trout; uncle; uncus; voice; water; way; week; white; wife; williams; window; woman; wood; work; world; years; young
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 36587
      author: Defoe, Daniel
       title: A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal The Next Day after Her Death, to one Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705; which Apparition Recommends the Perusal of Drelincourt's Book of Consolations against the Fears of Death
        date: None
       words: 6118
      flesch: 65
     summary: Some time after, Mr. Veal's friends got him a place in the custom-house at Dover, which occasioned Mrs. Veal, by little and little, to fall off from her intimacy with Mrs. Bargrave, though there was never any such thing as a quarrel; but an indifferency came on by degrees, till at last Mrs. Bargrave had not seen her in two years and a half; though above a twelvemonth of the time Mrs. Bargrave hath been absent from Dover, and this last half year has been in Canterbury about two months of the time, dwelling in a house of her own. Mrs. Bargrave is the person to whom Mrs. Veal appeared after her death; she is my intimate friend, and I can avouch for her reputation, for these last fifteen or sixteen years, on my own knowledge; and I can confirm the good character she had from her youth, to the time of my acquaintance.
    keywords: apparition; bargrave; best; book; brother; canterbury; captain; circumstances; conversation; day; days; death; discourse; drelincourt; fact; fits; friend; friendship; gentleman; gold; good; gown; great; house; justice; kinswoman; life; like; lives; matter; mrs; person; relation; spirit; story; sure; thing; thought; time; veal; watson; world
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