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**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · 22h

22h

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Do not invite the dead for dinner unless you really, really mean it.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/visits-from-43523784

German folk tale "Guests from the Gallows". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5d

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“THE OPEN DOOR… explores the borders between the natural physical world and the spiritual one. Like many of Oliphant’s ghost stories, it is about a past which refuses to be silent and a modernity which refuses to listen to it.”

—Prof Rosemary Mitchell on Margaret Oliphant’s THE OPEN DOOR

6/7

https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/blog/blog-posts/margaret-oliphants-the-open-door-looking-back-to-move-forward.php

Leeds Trinity UniversityMargaret Oliphant’s ‘The Open Door’: Looking Back to Move Forward

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · 6d

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Strange lights can sometimes be spotted in the German countryside at night.

Some of them are friendly, and some of them are... not.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lighting-way-to-47458631

Part 1 of German folk tale "The Ghostly Light". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

Part 2 of German folk tale "The Ghostly Light". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Apr 1

Apr 1

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

The Black Monk of the Danube was a terrifying specter of doom.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadful-52009109

Part 1 of German folk tale "The Black Monk". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

Part 2 of German folk tale "The Black Monk". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 31

Mar 31

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Many lost souls appear as "fiery men" - humanoid apparitions of living flames.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/blessings-upon-47613599

German folk tale "The Saved Fiery Man". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 30

Mar 30

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

The high alpine meadows are not good places to linger in the dark.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadful-52009109

German folk tale "The Maid Fetches the Alpine Sieve". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 30

Mar 30

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Do not build new facilities on the ruins of an old, haunted monastery - unless you are okay with inheriting their ghosts.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghosts-in-mill-52008960

Part 1 of German folk tale "The Ghosts Haunting the New Mill at the Innerste River". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

Part 2 of German folk tale "The Ghosts Haunting the New Mill at the Innerste River". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

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**lisawilliams** @lisawilliams@toot.lgbt · Mar 30

Mar 30

lisawilliams @lisawilliams@toot.lgbt

Peer-reviewed papers on the academic legacy of...ghosts and ghost stories: https://toot.lgbt/@lisawilliams/114226201683071850 #spooky #ghosts #halloween #ghoststory #ghoststories

Ghosts, appearing as translucent, sheet draped figures, float through a graveyard.

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Seeing the invisible world might be tempting, but this is not without its risks.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/send-in-monks-45254337

The Haunt on the Harth:

There is a spirit haunting the forest of Malberg, which also called “auf der Harth” (“on the Harth”), and many people could tell of the pranks he played on them. A Capuchin monk thus led the spirit away from this spot, and to another, where he could no longer bother anyone. A woman, who was part of the procession, told the Capuchin: “Let me see the spirit.” The Capuchin replied: “Step on my right foot with your left foot, and look back over my left shoulder.” The woman did so immediately, but before the eyes of everyone present fainted, and fell down to the ground unconscious.

Source: Schmidtz, J.H. Sitten und Sagen, Lieder Sprichwörter und Räthsel des Eifler Volkes. 1856, p. 31.

**Ben Royce** @benroyce@mastodon.social · Mar 26 *

Mar 26 *

Ben Royce @benroyce@mastodon.social

#womensHistoryMonth

What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

I think she won

1/x

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

A room in an inn in Flensburg was once haunted by an entire royal court.

#Germany #Flensburg #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/abodes-of-ghosts-43497027

Part 1 of German folk tale "The Ghosts’ Meal". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

Part 2 of German folk tale "The Ghosts’ Meal". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

A terrible storm once sank a ship with all hands just when it had reached its home port of Emden!

#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/terror-of-sea-50181475

German folk tale "The Ghost Ship (Emden)". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Once, the ghost of a scorned woman summoned a storm against her unfaithful lover on his wedding day.

#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-stories-of-31962669

German folk tale "The Uglei". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 22

Mar 22

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Brautlachenberg Mountain is haunted by a wedding party cursed for their blasphemy.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-stories-27398144

German folk tale "The Brautlachenberg Mountain". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 19

Mar 19

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Some ships are lost at sea.

But "lost" does not always mean "gone".

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/terror-of-sea-50181475

The Ghost Ship (Pellworm):

It was at a time of the year when all ships berthed and all sailors traveled home, but the betrothed of one young woman still wouldn’t come. And when everyone else was already home, he had not arrived. Her heart did not want to accept this, and in the nights she stood at the waters and wailed and cried for her beloved. Then one night the ship arrived which had been lost at sea with her groom. It took her on board, and nobody ever saw her again.

(From Pellworm or Föhr, narrated by Herr Storm.)

Source: Müllenhoff, K; Mensing, O. Sagen, Märchen und Lieder der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg. 1845, p. 163f.

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

The ghosts of the old Noricans fled into the depths of the mountains when they longer wanted to witness the shame of their descendants losing to the forces of Napoleon.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghosts-within-50179425