Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore
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STRANGER THAN FICTION
BEING TALES FROM THE BYWAYS OF GHOSTS AND FOLK-LORE
LONDON WILLIAM RIDER & SON LTD. 164 ALDERSGATE STREET, E.C. 1911
Printed by BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS Tavistock Street Covent Garden London
TO MY SISTER
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II
WELSH GHOSTS
CHAPTER III
WELSH GHOSTS (continued)
CHAPTER IV
OTHER GHOSTS
CHAPTER V
CORPSE-CANDLES AND THE TOILI
CHAPTER VI
CORPSE-CANDLES AND THE TOILI[10] (continued)
THE OLD WOMAN WHO SAW HER OWN CORPSE-LIGHT
THE OLD WOMAN WHO WAS BLINDED FOR A MONTH BY A CORPSE-LIGHT
HOW TO KNOW WHOSE LIGHT IT WAS
THE SMITH OF LLANFIHANGEL AND THE CORPSE-LIGHT
FOLLOWING HIS OWN CANDLE
STORIES OF THE TOILI
THE TOILI WITHOUT A FUNERAL
THE UNBELIEVER AND THE TOILI
THE TOILI AT LLANBADARN ODWYN CHURCHYARD
THE TOILI OF RHOSMEHERIN
CORPSE-DOGS
THE OLD WOMAN WHO SAW HER OWN CORPSE-LIGHT
THE OLD WOMAN WHO WAS BLINDED FOR A MONTH BY A CORPSE-LIGHT
HOW TO KNOW WHOSE LIGHT IT WAS
THE SMITH OF LLANFIHANGEL AND THE CORPSE-LIGHT
FOLLOWING HIS OWN CANDLE
STORIES OF THE TOILI
THE TOILI WITHOUT A FUNERAL
THE UNBELIEVER AND THE TOILI
THE TOILI AT LLANBADARN ODWYN CHURCHYARD
THE TOILI OF RHOSMEHERIN
CORPSE-DOGS
CHAPTER VII
WELSH FAIRIES
THE FAIRY RINGS
THE MAIDEN WHO WAS LOST IN A FAIRY RING
THE TIME OF THEIR DANCING
THE FAIRY OINTMENT
THE FAIRY RINGS
THE MAIDEN WHO WAS LOST IN A FAIRY RING
THE TIME OF THEIR DANCING
THE FAIRY OINTMENT
CHAPTER VIII
WISE MEN, WITCHES, AND FAMILY CURSES
CHAPTER IX
ODD NOTES
CHAPTER X
CONCLUSION
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