New-York tribune., 1901-05-10

quickly appeared that he also had lost all his wood
apped a with the same result In despair Ihey ~ e ra
to the tree where Herne had hanged himself. where
hour Of midnieht fhev arrived We at the tree which
had been blasted by lightning after Hernes suicide
the head and horns of the stag sim upon his own
ing night with horses and dogs for a hunt. They
obeyed HIM in this. and on the following night he
were joined BY GrswicR iE S who made ma @ Them ali swear
release from the spell which was upon them
HERNE GETS HIS REVENGE
They complied. not daring TO refuse. and Herne
then led them in a grand hunt which resulted In
the killing of many deer. More hunts followed. on
other nights. till the of the park began TO be
thinned. At length the King insisted hunt by
night with all his keepers, and when the ghostly
Herne made his usual appearance the King de-
manded the reason why he walked. He replied that
he ne desired vengeance on the men who had caused
and and the King had them ali hanged on Herne's oak
ards reign p & taoqsP moi ssh irb ~ Wild
band of followers in Windsor Park.
Mr., AfnswortG and indeed. one of the characters
rar IN MS 20 own h novel disputes IT, saying that HeTne
as ghost through carrying off nun, keeping her
Jealousy ns and Rmse a IN ONE Of remorse But
sS anofner @ OF the characters justly remarks this
3d Herne to rank with the spectres which foreten
appeared many times in the reign OF King Richard
barhs h. without proving or pretending to be at all a
IraTy when Richard did come at last to his end ne
Iish any sort of British substitute for the White
There are royal ghosts in England. to be sure
W,9 vne ghost Of Queen Elizabeth has been seen at
Hampton Court Palace at odd times. as does also
her stGPmother. Katharine Howard The nurse of
ghostly company, and Lady Jane Grey. as has al
of these bear any threat of death to the SOW
ereign Yet spirits which foretell death not
IN caed the caad iad
D4y whom some cruel relative allowed to die from
wealth and now he shows Himself whenever s,sV i'ls a
supposed that his appearance would do something
toward causing as well as foretelling the death.
GHOSTS ON THEIR NATIVE HEATH
Scotland is land prolific in ghosts. and it goes
hard when example or two of any particular
class of spirit desired canIot be found there.
There is the Airlie Drummer. who beats his drum
at Cortachy Castle. which belongs to the earIs Of
A1rlie. when a member of the family is about to
die When he living man, instead Of a
ghost one of the former lords In a fit of jealousy
huns him from window and made dead man
and a ghost Of him. He threatened vengeance in
of a member of the Argyll family is foretoid in a
ing up to the door. A ghost Of an inanimate cb-
Ject is certainly curious notion. and the incon-
gruity or ghosts wearing clothes has been
marked but Il IS equally certain that spectre
coaches Of various sorts are among the most usual
oi Ftported shosty manifestations. On the last
visitation oe this hearse il was not seen. The
the house dooT was 8eSc anG 9PeneG
sight and soon after member of the family died.
those Of the pTophete hearse there o' could
CT course. be reasonable doubt.
A most remarkable ghost story is told OF King
Charles NJ Of Sweden He and some Of his at
lament Hall, which part OF the royal pal
ace, lighted up at a time when 1t ought not to be.
found n parliament in session. The garments OF
In Ine ms mehoErS h Were OF fashion strange 70 them
purple cloth bearing the royal arms In the hail
block While they watched nGmbep OF prisoners sa5l
were brought in and beheaded. the last OF them.
Well as his head. cut off It is said that written
attendants. is still in existence II was supposed
10 portend the assassination OF Gustavus III, and
the Perpetrators Of the cre T But m the assassna
ton Of Gustayus III did not occur TIN some hun
really was seen
HOW THE STORY Is PECULIAR.
This story may not be actually unique in its
character among ghost stories, IL may be, but
IT is certainly OF a unusual sort. Nothing is
more common in ghost stories than for the spirits
of the dead to re-enact incidents of their lives but
here was huge body OF spirits enacting a scene
in which they to take part late in their lives
the prophetic representation being given years be-
that the story is something Of strain
There is country where spirits which fore
tell death are recognized as belonging 10 regular
try is Ireland. and the spirits the banshees.
They are not generally regarded ghosts. but
rather as fairies One account says. indeed. that
the hanshee Is former member of the family 10
which she is attached, being young woman. who
woman OF the family dies 20 take her place. II Is
likely however. that this feature OF the story is
late eXcrescence upon it. for the word ''banshee'
means woman fairy With Irish perversty IL is
the ban" and not the "shee." that means woman.
'Shee, or some word OF more or less similar
sound and spelling scarcely any two writers agree
IT. is the general word for n fairy of kind
single banshee belongs q single family and
only the true old MileSian families can have them
She makes II known that q death is to occur by
raising a long sad but musical wall. like that
which the mourning women make at an Irish
self. though she raises keen the called
when member OF the family is die in anv part
of the world Lady Wilde also records a case
of banShee which accompanied the family to
which she was attached when II emigrated to
Canada. There said 10 be two kinds OF ban
shoes. friendly ones. who 70 be stricken with
woe at the impending disaster, and inimiCaI ones
VINO appear Ia take rather wild and savage de-
light I'm the coming death. In case the ban
shee was such intimate terms with the family
that room in the house set apart for her
use, and in IL she frequently seen, a beautiful
pearance portended harm at all. Ii was only
when she walled that death was looked for, and
always
An Irishman who is not yet old. but has lived In
this country for number of years. has assured
the present writer that there be doubt what
ever as to the existence of banshees. for. though
he has heard himself he has known
plenty OF people who have
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