Agua bendita
Procedente de una concepción análoga a la del agua lustral* de la Antigüedad, el agua bendita del ritual católico posee virtudes purificadoras y protectoras. Junto…
Month: December 2021
Acquisitio
Nombre latino de la figura de geomancia* llamada «la adquisición» o «la ganancia», o en árabe «la cerradura para entrar». Evoca en todos los planos…
Plains of Abraham – Quebec City
The site of a pivotal 1759 battle, the Plains of Abraham are said to be haunted by the spirits of fallen soldiers. Apparitions and sounds…
Tyburn Tree – London
London’s most famous gallows was the large triangular structure in the district of Tyburn, at what is now the junction of Bayswater Road and Edgware…
St James’s Palace – London
One of the standard traditional motives ascribed to a ghost’s apparition is that it has come to warn a living acquaintance to prepare for death.…
Soho Square
A Victorian cheap magazine entitled Mother Shipton’s Miscellany once carried a story about strange events at a house in Soho Square in 1704. Its owner…
Montpelier Square, Kensington
‘A wonderful modern ghost-story’, wrote Charles Harper, ‘obtained much publicity at the close of December 1913 … The principals were said to be people of…
Islington
A booklet of 1842 entitled The Islington Ghost describes the strange happenings which were said to have followed the burial in 1517 of a wealthy…
Holland House, Kensington
To see one’s own ‘fetch’ or ‘wraith’ (or ‘astral body’, in the language of paranormal studies) has always been regarded as a death omen. John…
Highgate – London
Spectral animals and birds are common in British folklore, but it is fairly unusual for them to be interpreted as the ghosts of specific individual…