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Tag Description:A Folk-Lore Legend: A Ghostly Victorian Poem
The ghost of a beloved departed mother returns to console her children, who are habitually beaten and abused by their evil stepmother in this Gothic Victorian poem. A Folk-Lore Legend By Catharine Allan, Peterson’s Magazine, 1884 “Come back to us mother,” the little ones cried; Come back to us, mother dear.” And they flung themselves [...]
My Cousin, The Ghost
My Cousin, The Ghost, or, Something Like a Christmas-Box, by Alfred Paxton, appeared in The Boy’s Own Paper, Saturday, January 6th, 1883. Tell you a good ghost story? Very well. I’ll tell you of somthing that happened to me when I was a boy. and you can believe it or not just as you like. [...]
