Gazetteer of Scottish and Irish Ghosts (Frontiers of the unknown) - Hardcover

Peter Underwood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0285620894 ISBN 13: 9780285620896

Publisher: Souvenir Press, 1973

Synopsis

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From the Inside Flap:

A GAZETTEER OF SCOTTISH AND IRISH GHOSTS is the first comprehensive collection of ghostly legends and modern reports of ghosts and hauntings through the Highlands, Lowlands and isles of Scotland and the whole of Ireland.

Here are such varied phenomena as the "big grey man of Ben MacDhui", the haunted mountain vouched for by professors, doctors and mountaineers of considerable standing; or the curious disturbances at the Edinburgh home of Sir Alexander Seton subsequent to his wife's removing an ancient bone from an Egyptian tomb. Do you know where an vampire lurks in the shadows of a ruined church? Where giant footsteps cause panic to hardened climbers? Where the red glow of battle shines annually? Where corpses whisper? These and many other strange stories, legends and authentic accounts of ghostly happenings have been catalogued alphabetically for easy reference.

In addition to presenting a profusion of fascinating reports from the towns and valleys, lochs and lakes, mountains and rivers, historic castles and houses of these lovely countries, Peter Underwood draws on his twenty-five years of study and practical investigation to describe a rich patchwork of reported happenings that cannot be explained in material or scientific terms.

All in all A GAZETTEER OF SCOTTISH AND IRISH GHOSTS provides a unique reference book and guide to the ghost population of these lands. The result of many years of study, it is a worthy successor to the earlier GAZETTEER OF BRITISH GHOSTS by the same author.

From the Back Cover:

Never before in our century has interest in psychical research, in the vast field of the occult, been at such peak as in the sixties. Nor has this interest been as all-embracing - every country, every class and every age-group shares it. The rebellious youth of today explores with zest and never-flagging curiosity, magic and witchcraft, mysticism and the borderland philosophies of the East. At the same time psychical research is achieving more and more academic recognition while for the general public faith in reason, in logical processes has been increasingly weakening. The irrational has become a haven from the bankruptcy of logic and order. If the natural and reasonable are forsaken, the supernatural and the extra-rational must flourish.

About this edition

• Publisher: Souvenir Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0285620894
• ISBN 13: 9780285620896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256