The world of ghosts and the supernatural

Book 1994

This volume takes readers on a continent-by continent tour of ghostly apparitions, supernatural happenings, and strange, unexplained phenomena, containing ghost stories from around the world. These stories are grouped by continent and attempts to separate the true records from the rumors. Each section has a map showing the sites of subjects mentioned in the text. It includes tales of doctors who successfully perform "psychic surgery'' without an...

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ISBN:

9780816032099
0816032092

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Introduction
part 1: Europe. Introduction
Location map
Of royal blood
Versailles and spectral encounters
Harbingers of death
Witch country
The wolf beneath the skin
The feast of blood
The talking mongoose
To the eye of faith
The restless ones
The Glastonbury mysteries
The isle is full of noises
Ancient sorceries
Shadows of war
The screaming skull
Celtic twilight
Stones of mystery
The house of faces
part 2: North and Central America. Introduction and location map
From Salem to New Orleans
Amityville and other horrors
Presidents and ghosts
The divine riders
The living dead
Caribbean enchantments
Canada uncanny
Marvels and Madonnas
The devil to pay
Paths of trance and vision
Is there anyone there?
Coast to coast
California chillers
The all-American poltergeist
Jeepers creepers
Alien intruders
Sinister visitors
Land of wonders
part 3: South America. Introduction and location map
The surgery of the dead
Gods out of Africa
Lords of the trance
The gods' picture book
The realms of gold
The cross and the sun
Enemy in sight
Encounters of the strange kind
part 4: Africa. Introduction and location map
More than meets the eye
The curse of the pharaohs
The holy mountain
Solomon and Sheba
Spirits of the times
The horses of the gods
The prevalence of witches
King Solomon's mines
part 5: Asia. Introduction and location map
The bible lands
Ministers of grace
From Arabia to the Caspian
Fatal attractions
God-men of India
Sex and the sacred
The land of snows
A distant drum
The Chinese way
The rising sun
Surrounded by spirits
part 6: Australasia and the pacific. Introduction and location map
In the dreamtime
Mysteries down under
The land uplifted high
The presence of the dead
The cargo cults
Spirits of the South Seas
Islands in the sun

LCCN:

94015743

Control Number:

52148

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