ghosts among those w

xperience either of the present life or of lives forgotten. Even the fear of the unk

culiar fear. No other fear is so intense; yet none is so vague. Feelings thus voluminous and dim ar

exper

the question. The literature of folk-lore-oral and written-throws no clear light upon the subject. We find, indeed, various legends of men torn asunder by phantoms; but such gross imaginings could not explain the peculiar quality of ghostly fear. It is not a fear of bodily violence. It is not even a reasoning fear,-n

er to pull off people's heads. But so far as the origin of the fear of ghosts is concerned, such stories ex

hed by ghosts,-or, in other words, that the imagined Supernatural is dreaded mainly be

stored up in the individual by inheritance, like the child's fear of darkness. And who can ever have had the se

he more definite fear of ghosts may very possibly be composed with inherited results of dream-pain,-ancestral

ate my theory by relating