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Ghosts, &c.!

A true and particular account of the disastrous circumstances attending the horrible and most awful appearance of a ghost, which took place in a house in the High Street of Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening, the 17th October, 1827

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  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English

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Traditions: Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

Subjects: Ghosts, Scotland, 1801-1900, Broadsides, Edinburgh

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Controlled discovery queries from national-library-of-scotland matched “ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the title, “ghost” in the subtitle, “Ghosts” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “ghosts”· via National Library of Scotland
    • “Ghosts”· in title
    • “ghost”· in subtitle
    • “Ghosts”· in subject
    • “Ghosts”· in edition title
    • “ghost”· in edition subtitle

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A true and particular account of the disastrous circumstances attending the horrible and most awful appearance of a ghost, which took place in a house in the High Street of Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening, the 17th October, 1827

National Bibliography of Scotland record

'Price one penny'; 1 sheet ([1] p.); 41 x 13 cm; Offprint from the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle of October 24th, 1827; The account details two ghost sightings in Edinburgh, both of which occurred within the space of a week: one in Stevenlaw's Close and the other at 166 High Street. The first sighting appears to have been witnessed by a group of around 500 hundred people, whilst the spectre at 166 High Street was viewed by a solitary maid-servant

[1827?]Printed for William WaltersEnglish—Catalog record

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Identifiers

National Library of Scotland
  • 9938991373804341

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national-library-of-scotland:9938991373804341
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