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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1959.

Ghosts DON'T like Christmas

CHRISTMAS. is tradi-

tionally "open" sea-

son for ghosts. Yet

By

there is little evidence LAURENCE GRAY

that spooks and phan.

Tho

Druids

oniled 14

toms prefer the festive

ghost in his season to any other time Christmas

stories. A Christmas Carol regarded me of the year. Indeed, and The Chimes. But, in detoe as mncred the opposite seems fact, the association of the and

supernatural with the fes nearer the truth.

tival season dates back to the dawn of In this age. of almost electronics, when any-

one

Christianity.

Nearly

can call forth an' image in his own front accept

we

everything RA "traditional" about Christmas had its

healali. It w used to cure all ailments and an an antidote to poison. Who- wone + twig of it was Pato from witchcraft and

room by switching on beginning in the Dark Age in this site of

籍

the television, ghosts when the festival was are becoming increas mixture of superstitious be-

liefs and pagan rites. ingly scarce.

Christmas,

But at rpine-chilling tales of ap- paritions, visitations and supernatural phenomena are as much. part of the family as the pudding.

Charles Dickens nowaday's credited

having

popularised

CHESS

is

with the

by LEONARD BARDEN

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London Krypais Suretes

immunity from

evil, could see

artic talk to ghonte

Since timo immemorial, the wood-cutters of 1be Harzburg district of Ger- many have,

prayed on

för

But

Borley Rectory, In Suffolk, Report of ghosts choosing the festive season to make personal often called "the most baunted But there house in England," is at ito appearances are rare.

robord is one case o

of

quietest around Christmas. Mr Christmas ghost actually appear Harry Price, the well-known ing at a family party. It hap- paychic urveligator, spent a pened in 1905 at the home of an year, from May, 1937, to Mary English clergyman, the Rev 1938, at the Rectory, where Do Charles Tuerdale. He claimed fewer than 2,000 ghostly mani- have been reported

Christmas Eve

the "haulted" house, All The Year

ghosts, according to "elndows" of their dead eness- Round, a magazine edited by leading authorities on psychic came out strongly phenomena, have no particular toes. They build rough mangers Dickens, The festival ia, of of twigs in the forest and per- against spiritualism.

Anity to the festive season. course, primarily concerned form ancient rituals designed with commemorating the to reach the dear departed. birth of Christ, which

In remote villages of Southern itself is involved with the Italy and Sicily, too, the Eve of mysteries of the Immacu- Christmas in associated with late Conception and the ghosts. There, the family of a visitation of the Virgin recently, departed loved

meet at his grave to pray that Mary by the Holy Ghost, the body shall remain undis. the mysticism of the turbed and his spirit rest in Cross

and the Passion, peace. And as the clock strikes midnight they sprinkle dried and the Resurrection).

garlie leaves over the grave 10 influences ward off disturbing which might try and resuscitate the ghost.

The

decorations which have become so much part of te Christmas tradition, from the tree to the misiketoë,

had sil connections with the occult in ancient times,

one

In A Christmas Carol, Dickens won back some respectability for

Christmas ghost

the

by

showing. In the repentant In north European countrico Serenge, that the deed can have Christmus lore is full of tales of an Influence for good the witches, spirits, goblins,

the ghost was his Aunt Leah, festations who had been dead five years, over 70 years. Forty reputable and that she walked clean observers acting him el re through the Christmas tree," ported a lull in the "distur

bances at Christmas time. ว

Famous opiritualists like ex- plorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, millionaire yachtsman Sir Thomme Lipton, author Edgar Wallace, and Ox- ford don Sir Ernest Beanett all agreed that there was nothing Buckingham Palace is said to "Christmassy" about ghosts." be haunted at Christmas by a

An pale, sad-looking monk,

One reason that Christmas is ather royal home, Sandringham, associated with psychle phono- has a ghostly num

menn could be that, above all, it is a time of family gather

It is At Sandringham, too, it is Ings. Traditionally,

w- the ghost of a beautiful time when tarily news is

remem- masked woman once startled a changed, the time for

who are Zar Christmas guest while he was bering relations shaving.

away — or no longer living.

bogles and fairies who liaunted William Makepeace Thackeray the leafless woods. The ever called this tale a national bene-

tree

originally A," green

Was brought into the house us pro- tection against mischief-peaking But Dickens himself was no ghosts.

bellever ghosts. For although

established the Christmas Holly

sald, was supposed to be ghost for all time in his stories, particularly hateful to witches, he lost no opportunity to do rosemary offensive 10 evil nounce the so-called ghosts of spirits.

the fake seance and the

he

the

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