She shuddered when she heard little Jammes speak of the ghost, called her a "silly little fool" and then, as she was the first to believe in ghosts in general, and the Opera ghost in particular, at once asked for details:
You meet so many men in dress-clothes at the Opera who are not ghosts. But this dress-suit had a peculiarity of its own.
If I hear another word spoken about
ghosts in this school, it will be the worse for all of you.
I made a drink-offering to all the dead, first with honey and milk, then with wine, and thirdly with water, and I sprinkled white barley meal over the whole, praying earnestly to the poor feckless
ghosts, and promising them that when I got back to Ithaca I would sacrifice a barren heifer for them, the best I had, and would load the pyre with good things.
Scrooge then remembered to have heard that
ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains.
"If you had had a 'Shilling Dreadful' in your hand," she proceeded, "something about
Ghosts or Dynamite or Midnight Murder--one could understand it: those things aren't worth the shilling, unless they give one a Nightmare.
Do you know, I have been trysting here with
ghosts."
The mountain is haunted; it is a place of
ghosts. Look at the stone Witch who sits upon it!
Strange to say, in spite of the general foreboding, nothing of especial moment happened on the
Ghost. We ran on to the north and west till we raised the coast of Japan and picked up with the great seal herd.
As soon as the play, which was Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, began, Partridge was all attention, nor did he break silence till the entrance of the
ghost; upon which he asked Jones, "What man that was in the strange dress; something," said he, "like what I have seen in a picture.
We was thinking of that awful thing laying yonder in the sycamores, and it seemed like being that close to a
ghost, and it give me the cold shudders.
Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful
ghost survives and hovers over it to scare.