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020			_a9780099287575 (pbk.)
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100	1		_914594 _aAckroyd, Peter, _d1949- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe English ghost : _bspectres through time / _cPeter Ackroyd.
260			_aLondon : _bVintage, _c2011.
263			_a201110
300			_a1 v. ; _c20 cm.
520			_aThe English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant thyme. From medieval times to today, stories have been told and apparitions seen - ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace, spooks who just want to have fun. The English Ghost is a treasury of such sightings - which we can believe or not, as we will. The accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the door-slamming, shrieking ghost of Hinton Manor in the 1760s and the moaning child that terrified Wordsworth's nephew at Cambridge, to the headless bear of Kidderminster, the violent daemon of Devon who tried to strangle a man with his cravat and the modern-day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill. Comical and scary, like all good ghost stories, these curious incidents also plumb the depths of the English psyche in its yearnings for justice, freedom and love.
650		0	_aGhosts _zEngland. _935410
650		0	_aHaunted places _zEngland. _935411
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