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Medieval Ghost Stories Medieval Ghost Stories An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies Compiled and edited by ANDREW JOYNES THE BOYDELL PRESS © Andrew Joynes 2001 All Rights Reserved.Except as permitted under current legislation no part ofthis work may be photocopied,stored in a retrieval system, published,performed in public,adapted,broadcast, transmitted,recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission ofthe copyright owner The right ofAndrew Joynes to be identified as the author ofthis work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 ofthe Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2001 The Boydell Press,Woodbridge Reprinted in paperback 2003,2006 ISBN 1 84383 269 0 Paperback ISBN 978 184383 269 0 The Boydell Press is an imprint ofBoydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9,Woodbridge,Suffolk IP12 3DF,UK and ofBoydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue,Rochester,NY 14620,USA website:www.boydellandbrewer.com A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by CPI Cox and Wyman,Reading ‘. . .The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life . . .’ Avery F.Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Minneapolis:The University ofMinnesota Press,1997) Contents Preface xi Part One GHOSTS AND MONKS Introduction 3 The Spirit ofPaschasius the Deacon 9 The Bathkeeper 10 The Visions ofTortgith 13 The Mission to Germany 14 The Ghostly Gatherings 17 The Domain ofthe Dead 18 The Groaning Ghosts 19 Wulferius and the Ghostly Martyrs 22 A Demonic Visitor 23 An Army ofWraiths 24 The Burning Spear 26 Herveus and his Debtor 28 The Crying Child 33 The Apparition ofBernard le Gros 37 The Apparitions in Spain 39 The Ghostly Chapter Meeting 44 The White Lady ofStamheim 48 The Spectre’s Warning 49 The Load ofEarth 49 The Incestuous Ghost 50 The Gift ofSnakes and Toads 51 The Devilish Tormentor 51 The Shoes ofthe Hunted Woman 52 Whispers in the Choir 53 The Brimstone Potion 54 The Hair that Turned to Gold 55 Part Two GHOSTS AND THE COURT Introduction 61 The Priest Walchelin and Hellequin’s hunt 66 The Dark Hunters ofPeterborough 75 The Witch ofBerkeley 78 The Jealous Venus 80 The Two Clerks ofNantes 83 The Tale ofKing Herla 87 A Lady ofthe Lake 90 The Wife ofEdric Wilde 91 The Sons ofthe Dead Woman 93 The Demon at the Cradle 94 King Arthur and the Butterfly Bishop 97 The Fight with the Ghostly Army 100 Dreams and Portents 100 Eel Pie 104 The Figure by the River-Pool 105 The Child Tumbled from the Cradle 106 The Cemetery ofAliscamps 107 The Flying Mortar 109 The Ghost ofBeaucaire 110 The Hand ofRyneke 116 Part Three THE RESTLESS DEAD Introduction 121 Grendel the Nightstalker 127 The Defeat ofGrendel 128 The Burial ofthe Foster-Brothers 132 The Buckinghamshire Ghost 135 The Berwick Ghost 136 The Hound’s Priest 137 The Ghost ofAnant 139 Hrapp’s Ghost 143 The Ghost in the Doorway 145 The Ghost ofThorolfHalt-Foot 148 Thorgunna’s Supper 150 Deaths at Frodis-water 153 The Companies ofthe Dead 154 The Ghosts on Trial 156 The Tomb ofKar the Old 159 Glam the Shepherd 160 The Fight with Glam’s Ghost 162 The Basket ofBeans 167 The Haunting ofSnowball 168 The Frightened Oxen 170 The Silver Spoons 171 The Howling Ghost 171 The Child ofRichard Rowntree 172 The Sister ofAdam de Lond 173 Part Four GHOSTS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Introduction 177 Bisclavret the Werewolf 183 The Vision ofthe Knight Lorois 189 The Ghost ofGuinevere’s Mother 195 The Phantom Knight ofWandlesbury 199 The Ghostly Butler 202 The Demons’Castle 203 The Huntsman ofRavenna 207 Select Bibliography 213

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Strongly recommended. M R JAMES NEWSLETTER Stories of restless spirits returning from the afterlife are as old as storytelling. In medieval Europe ghosts, nightstalkers and unearthly visitors from parallel worlds had been in circulation since before the coming of Christianity. Here is a collection o
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