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MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES - JULIAN HAWTHORN...

[...] There are  in this land  ghosts who take the form of fat  cold  pobby corpses  and hide
in trees near the roadside till a traveler passes. Then they drop upon his neck and remain.
There are also terrible ghosts of women who have died in child-bed. These wander along the
pathways at dusk  or hide in the crops near a village  and call seductively. But to answer
their call is death in this world and the next. Their feet are turned backward that all sober
men may recognize them. There are ghosts of little children who have been thrown into wells.
These haunt well curbs and the fringes of jungles  and wail under the stars  or catch women by
the wrist and beg to be taken up and carried. These and the corpse ghosts  however  are only
vernacular articles and do not attack Sahibs. No native ghost has yet been authentically
reported to have frightened an Englishman  but many English ghosts have scared the life out of
both white and black. [...] Contains various narratives from Rudyard Kipling  Wilkie Collins
and many others. Originally published in 1909.

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