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BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND




                      BYWAYS OF
                     GHOST-LAND

                         BY

                  ELLIOTT O'DONNELL

                      AUTHOR OF

      "SOME HAUNTED HOUSES OF ENGLAND AND WALES,"
    "HAUNTED HOUSES OF LONDON," "GHOSTLY PHENOMENA,"
  "DREAMS AND THEIR MEANINGS," "SCOTTISH GHOST TALES,"
             "TRUE GHOST TALES," ETC., ETC.

             WILLIAM RIDER AND SON, LIMITED
            164 Aldersgate St., London, E.C.
                         1911




CONTENTS


  CHAP.                                                  PAGE

    1. THE UNKNOWN BRAIN                                    1

    2. THE OCCULT IN SHADOWS                               21

    3. OBSESSION, POSSESSION                               28

    4. OCCULT HOOLIGANS                                    47

    5. SYLVAN HORRORS                                      56

    6. COMPLEX HAUNTINGS AND OCCULT BESTIALITIES           80

    7. VAMPIRES, WERE-WOLVES, FOX-WOMEN, ETC.             110

    8. DEATH-WARNINGS AND FAMILY GHOSTS                   132

    9. SUPERSTITIONS AND FORTUNES                         153

   10. THE HAND OF GLORY; THE BLOODY HAND OF ULSTER;
         THE SEVENTH SON; BIRTH-MARKS; NATURE'S
         DEVIL SIGNALS; PRE-EXISTENCE; THE FUTURE;
         PROJECTION; TELEPATHY; ETC.                      176

   11. OCCULT INHABITANTS OF THE SEA AND RIVERS           198

   12. BUDDHAS AND BOGGLE CHAIRS                          210

       INDEX                                              244




BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND




CHAPTER I

THE UNKNOWN BRAIN


Whether all that constitutes man's spiritual nature, that is to say, ALL
his mind, is inseparably