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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

Andrew Lang

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Still more frequently they represent fantastic landscapes and romantic scenes, as in an historical novel, with people in odd costumes coming, going and acting.  Thus I have been present when a lady saw in a glass ball a man in white Oriental costume kneeling beside a leaping fountain of fire.  Presently a hand appeared pointing downwards through the flame.  The first vision seen pretty often represents an invalid in bed.  Printed words are occasionally read in the glass, as also happens in the visions beheld with shut eyes before sleeping.

All these kinds of things, in fact, are common in our visions between sleeping and waking (illusions hypnagogiques).  The singularity is that they are seen by people wide awake in glass balls and so forth.  Usually the seer is a person whose ordinary “mental imagery” is particularly vivid.  But every “visualiser” is not a crystal seer.  A novelist of my acquaintance can “vis. . . Read More

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- Ann Marie - Jun 16, 2020

Sorry folks and lovers of short stories such as myself, try as I might, I couldn't download this! Because I love short stories I would like to read this before I rate it so I'm just going to give it a down-the-middle 3 stars. I would love to read this, so I will acquire it myself and come back with

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- Elisa - Mar 28, 2020

Originally published in 1897, this book is like traveling back in time and having a conversation about, well, dreams and ghosts by the fireplace on a cold, stormy night. It is a little old-fashioned, and some stories were written in old English and were, therefore, hard to read. The theories are ama

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- Irka - Dec 08, 2018

Love it! Interesting, fascinating, a bit psychological with a dose of mystery. This is not really an art of fiction, more like a story collection.

3.00
- Teresa - May 28, 2020

This book was not at all what I thought it would be. It is more like an essay then a book. It has several accounts of people dreaming about ghosts and other weird happenings, and even occasionally seeing ghosts. It is pretty dry and I would not call it fascinating. Parts are written in old english a

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- Sandy - Sep 12, 2014

I chose this title because of the author. It was fascinating to read Andrew Lang's "other" interests (besides folk and fairy tales). This read a bit dry and was not "stories," but the mindset of the day and retellings of actual sightings and events of people in the late 1800's and earlier. There was

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