The Book of Dreams and Ghosts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 292 pages of information about The Book of Dreams and Ghosts.

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 292 pages of information about The Book of Dreams and Ghosts.

On the evening of the 20th there were great disturbances, panelling and doors being broken down in various rooms.  The minister was standing in the house door along with Magnus and two or three girls when Magnus said to him that the spirit had gone into the sitting-room.  The minister went and stood at the door of the room, and after he had been there a little while, talking to the others, a pane of glass in one of the room windows was broken.  Magnus was standing beside the minister talking to him, and when the pane broke he said that the spirit had gone out by that.  The minister went to the window, and saw that the pane was all broken into little pieces.  The following evening, the 21st, the spirit also made its presence known by bangings, thumpings, and loud noises.

On the 28th the ongoings of the spirit surpassed themselves.  In the evening a great blow was given on the roof of the sitting-room.  The minister was inside at the time, but Magnus with two girls was out in the barn.  At the same moment the partition between the weaving-shop and the sitting-room was broken down, and then three windows of the room itself—­one above the minister’s bed, another above his writing-table, and the third in front of the closet door.  A piece of a table was thrown in at one of these, and a spade at another.  At this the household ran out of that room into the loft, but the minister sprang downstairs and out; the old woman Gudrun who was named before went with him, and there also came Magnus and some of the others.  Just then a vessel of wash, which had been standing in the kitchen, was thrown at Gudrun’s head.  The minister then ran in, along with Magnus and the girls, and now everything that was loose was flying about, both doors and splinters of wood.  The minister opened a room near the outer door intending to go in there, but just then a sledge hammer which lay at the door was thrown at him, but it only touched him on the side and hip, and did him no harm.  From there the minister and the others went back to the sitting-room, where everything was dancing about, and where they were met with a perfect volley of splinters of deal from the partitions.  The minister then fled, and took his wife and child to Muli, the next farm, and left them there, as she was frightened to death with all this.  He himself returned next day.

On the 8th of December, the woman again made her appearance in broad daylight.  On this occasion she broke the shelves and panelling in the pantry, in presence of the minister, Magnus, and others.  According to Magnus, the spirit then went out through the wall at the minister’s words, and made its way to the byre-lane.  Magnus and Gudrun went after it, but were received with throwings of mud and dirt.  A stone was also hurled at Magnus, as large as any man could lift, while Gudrun received a blow on the arm that confined her to her bed for three weeks.

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