THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1955.
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DO GHOSTS PREFER
CHRISTMAS?
NHOUGH Christmas has
become the traditional By JOHN COTTRELL time for talking about He bad remembered that fought again on the spot where
ghost, 1
was mid- a.m.
T
ghosts, there is no good cloeits were one hour forward it had taken place two months reason for believing that for British Summer Timo. To earlier. phantoms prefer the festive the
The next night, the local Benaon to any
other for night,
minister and judgo also wit making personal др-
And when Whether or not you are pre- nessed the battle. pearances. On the contrary, pared to believe in ghosts, it's the King sent three officers to to the ballyhoo, reports of ghosts being seen just as well to know all these put an end At Christmas
For every they, too, saw the battie. They ore rather facts about them.
they could oven re year we read of propio fleeing word rare,
the faces of soldiers their homea to escape some cognioo #evil spirit". And only a few
few who had been killed previously, months ago, a leading seaman
NO HARM DONE in the Royal Navy tva9 11- tually flown home to Plymouth
Ono casa, however, WEE recorded by a Church of England clorgyman, the Rey, Charles Tweedale. His Aunt Leah, he said, appeared at a party in 1908 -lve years after her death-- and "walked clean through the Christmas tree.”
There is monk
also the sad, pale what is said to walk at
Buckingham Palace at Christ นส and a beautiful masked ghost alleged to have joined in a Christmas party at Sandring- ham.
On compassionate leave to lay
a ghost
Usually responsible for these not domestic upheavals aro ghosts in the popular concep- tion of visual figures - but noisy wirsten Poltergeists, spirita
So
locols near Kelnton, Northamptonshire, the Cavaliers and Roundheads, with horse, foot and artillery, are stil Dghting out the battle of Edga Hill to this day.
While this type of appari- Hion can fasolnate observers, it
ACCORDING to
another, it le said, appeared in court to maku his murderer break down and confoes while on trial.
One of the tallest stories I have heard about a ghost with a purpose, concerned a woman who objected to her husband's keen interest in other ladies.
"George," she said, “If you ever make love to a woman after I'm gone, I'll come back and haunt you"
Soon after she died, so the story goes, George forgot the Ahrent
and started courting widow. young regularly
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They would meet for evening walks. One day George crept up be- hind the widow--as was his practico--and kissed regular her, When the figuro turned round, he found it was his de ceased wife.
This
happened again
to it again. Often he went
THE LAST LAUCH
unl
the
is more usual for people to he rendezvous and his wife would terrified by the sight
dressed just lite the of be there,
a
She would trick him, Buch ghosts, it is claimed, ghost. Yet there is no real need widow.
then vanish ak havo lifted people in the air, for terror. Reports
giving a Satanic ghosts started fires, thrown all kinds doing anyone physical harm laugh. A survey of
of In-
household
and objects, Just cases
are very rare indeed. dicates
sometime caused
much that other popular be-
damage to property that However, Hets about ghosts are false. For
in 1920. London
UITE exasperated, рост court costs have scientists were amazed when instance, while many apparitions awkward
George decided to play a they studied a Rumanian
girl trick are reported to walk
at night,
himself. He asked his who was bitten by an unseen friend Bert, plenty have been seen in broad
to wear his suit while agent daylight. Aud
under observa and hat and go to the rendez- don't BAFFLING CASE ghosts favour dark and deserted places. Most of them seem to like the company of the living.
arison.
of course, be traced to mischievous humans, But others What do we know for certain
Tako have been quite billing. about ghosts? Unfortunately,
the expericnico of Me and Mrs few golden rules can be drawn
Cecil Wilson of Ipswich from the accounts of witnesses.
for days, Were upset by 征 Some ghosts appear suddenly;
which, they
sold, others fade in and out. Soms ghost
drawers and threw have a misty or transparent emptied
toys, brushes, choes and candlestick.
appearance;
others look like fiormal people. Some walk through doort; others stop to open them.
There are also some anoma- Iles in reports. Though ghosta are not supposed to have any substance, they seem able to moyo heavy objects and their footsteps can be heard. Seme have oven been said to block out the light.
✅ | PUNCTUAL HADITS
VERY often ghosts are visible
to one
person but not to another; and as a rule, they
who,
tion. And at Bristol, in 1701, it La recorded
Bet
that an invisible you in his place. At the Inst minute, he sent & note to the MANY cases of poltergeista hand nearly strangled n girl. widow concelling his date.
According
experts, ail "How did you
on?" visual ghosts Bre harmless. Georgo asked his friend the Some are even friendly. And next day.
"Smashing." one ghost, reputed to haunt a
Beri. onys 600-year-old inn near Taunton, crept up and kissed her Like Somerset, has a charming habit. you said. Then she kissed me It playe skitties,
Why then do spooks trouble people? Nearly always for a
The special reason. Friar
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Sald Mrs Wilson: "We have never believed in this kind of thing, but tonight wo are frigh dened out of our wits."
Similarly, at R house in Huncom, Cheshire, visitors have been greeted by volleys of books and clocks, and have been thrown from their beds, A clergymen was htt by flying dictionary there,
In such circumstances,
and
pray
to
exercise
pto- vicar the
have occurences
I
back."
The Joko had misfired, noto had not
The reached the
Black Widow in time. She kept the And eventu- date with Bert. of Newstead Abboy. Notis, is cald to walk when ally they married. anything is disturbed in his old George's wife had the Inst home. One Amerleun ghost re- laugh after all. turned to pay his debts, and
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Spare A Thought For Mother
By JANET GREY
ple often send for the ghost-occasionally with suc- don't speak. They also seem lo cessful results. At other times, bave very punctual bebite we stopped when one member ofHIS is a fairy story, a
the strange the ghost alleged haunted 3 Hammersmith the family-often an adolescent eburchyard in 1805, 1955 and going
been Arst stress IB05 at midnight on the full moon in August.
trom the house.
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haya
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The 50-year cycle last August; hundreds of peo ple turned out to see the ap- parilion. By 12.15 am, nothing had happened, ISO the crowd
Боло through
sent
As it was only a week or two
Everyone was
excites
by:
and keca Christmas fairy story, imbued with the stesonal spirit of good cheer everyone that is away and the heroine is a very but mother, whose feary grow
ordinary housewife.
as the shopping
days sped Apart from the fact that none began There is a third and very before Christmas this very of the guests had towels, Christ
rare kond of ghostly occurrence, ordinaty housewife was deding mas Eve passed off without in- where an event of long aga somewhat harassed. Sho was cident. The family kept to the re-enacted by many ghosta. thinking about the Christmas sleeping plan already drawn up
meals, wondering how much by mother. One of the best-known cases bread the would need, if the of this kind was first reported
Was big enough, and two days before Christmas, whether the turkey would at our housewife rose on Christ- 1642, when countryfolk saw the into the oven. bloody baillo of Edge Hill,
up the ghost end went Fave home.
But one bright young man stayed on till i pm., at which time he believes he saw the phantom.
A CHRISTMAS QUIZ:
What's the Name?
Over and over again sho sorted out in her mind the sleep Ing arrangements she had s0
ozrefully worked out to accom modate her family and the re- latives who were due to arrive en Christmas Eve. And when
Was
But that didn't lessen the sense of foreboding with which
mas morning.
Sho soon realized that this time her fears were justified.. Auntle Kate, who hated per- had a large bottle in her stmas stocking. Uncle George, who was always constr
she wasn't thinking about the valve about matters sartorial, that, rece
received gally-coloured tie she
counting cups and wiwi
and with a dancing-girl motif paint- cutlery. Would there be enough ed all over it, and Cousin Ethel, round when the nextdoor whose passion was highbrow neighbours came
to tea and music, was presented with the Christmas
It had Day? latest Bebop record, Ought she to borrow some cups also been forgotten that she and spoons just to be sure↑ didn't own a gramophond.
Here aro the potted biographies of eight to go internationally known personalities but the best-known facts about these famous people have boon omitted. Can you still supply their names?
HE
was born in June 1921 ... was educated in Scotland is married, has two children... served In Royal Navy during the war... la less well-known as the Eart of Merioneth ... had made his home in London ... enjoys cricket, flying and calling.
2 HE... was born November (30 ›.
married daughter of
supper
on
Then she sat down to make out a list of Christmas presents
At of the for other membera
lunch, the turkey was had family to give as well as herself. overcooked, and no one
Suddenly she put down her thought about tho stuffing. Pencil. "The rest of the family Nothing was said about a pud- will have a good holiday over ding. A jelly that hadn't Jalled Sir Henry Hoxier... has four children .. was educated Christmas," she thought, "But appeared insicad.
served with Spanish forces in Cuba ... has I shan't. I shall have to work been a Liberal M.P, and was once Under-Beoretary of Biate for harder then over. I wonder Byt teatime the housewife. the Colonics with French Croft de Guerre in 1914 What would happen if I left them decided that it was the mont hon. Citizen of Jacksonville, Florida... wrote a novel, "Savret to it-if I went on strike." miserablo Christmas Day, she
paints as a partime."
at Sandhurst
од
The idea grew, until eventuel had ever spent, and she made ednosted at Harrowly she made up her mind. She up her mind that nover again 3. HE... was born in 1880... WAS
would strike, that's what he would she relinqulah her hold ... is a Barrister-at-Law » » . huɑ been imprisoned
on domestic affairs, several occasions... has a sister who has been Ambassader would do
That evening she called the to Moscow...
lost his wife in 1930... has writión several
Well, this is just a fairy story, family together, and announced and like all fairy stories, it books, including "Soviet Russia.”
that this year they were to cope could never happen in
'real arrange to. No housewife could sit back and allow anyone else to taka control of "that" most sacred domalaher kitchen."
menta,
HE....
the Christmas was born in Shropshire in 1904, the son of a bol with 4.
miner is married, has three children... started his career as a clerk... has been knighted... has sporting interesis including football and' pigeon-racing.... has two brothers who were in the same profession ... has written an autoblogmphy.
At first thero was an outory. Bus l'aï just another way of they began to like the reminding everyono that while 5 SHE... le 35 years old ... studied at London and Oxford Then
«sympaťálov 'with the rail- Universities worked at Foreign Office during the war idon. After all, there had boon wer ... has been features editor on a magasino . WHE later a lot of do's and don'ts, and in Way workers, the people at tha publicist for a film company... has a celebrated husband... foot a good deal of unnecessary power stallone and the postmen is interested in rose-growing... lives at present in a world» nise about Christmas past. So because they have to famous street in London.
called a conference to do over Christmas, we forget that
the work.
the housewifee busy best kind of fairy mom would be in very bad way. seation, too, and most homes
6.
Scotland and Northern Rhodesia . married to a writer, should whose father died : commanding the armed merchana cruiser This one Rawalpindi during the war... has one child ... is në sekreni, though better known for her early onrooz.
SHE.. Was born in Scotland, 1925... was educated in / be happy. Sadler without fter.
7.
"
is married to · an" Olyarsió": athiele la dote some of her best work, in suburb... tu nok very tall ... kis the same inté
for bravery.
decision.
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fie song SHE.. was born in Amertes le under thirty youen cursed Christmas catering, and on strike. Help her 23 much
came home laden with presents possible it is only a tattor of age
talking about tha Journalist.
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