Browse:Wraith (Volume 1, entries 63–65)
Wraith
Volume 1, entries 63–65. Source context: SPIRITS → GHOSTLORE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 63
Now, about two years ago [1934], up here to my place [farm near Hampton, Virginia], an automobile driv [drove] in with five men into it and I knew them every one. They driv through my yard and went out and never did come back. When I got after them [later] they disowned it. It was their evil spirits, and they were just as natural, and they were trying to do me out of my place.
Entry 64
They used to say, when you met a spirit and they knew who it was, they didn't say anything to them. When you got home where this party lives at, they are there. They say, "That was their spirit I met then." They say, "Have you been away from home tonight?" "I haven't been away. Why do you ask?" 'Oh well, I didn't know whether you were out tonight or not."
The informant reports an encounter and quoted identification; the person in the account says they had not been away from home.
Entry 65
I have seen men's spirits, living spirits. I went to visit an old woman one night and I stayed until about ten o'clock. When I was going home a man was standing on the street. I knowed it was the man's spirit and when I got over a little drain of water and looked back he was gone. I knowed that was a spirit - the man was living, he wasn't dead, he isn't dead yet.