Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-11

dumb creatures than any secssty TOR ths
Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals could do
Chinese foIlklere abounds with stories OF
the fil-used pet monkey who returns after
death to worry the people who tormentsd
him In the flesh. This monkey is never
seen-only felt and heard. He sits on bis
I former masters bed at night. gibbering at
him and pulling his pigtaii. or he appears
at meal times and snatches away the food
| as it Is being conveyed to the mouth Mad
| ness and death are said to be the inevttabie
doom Of anybody haunted by this most UNI
| comfortable specter.
Two German Legends
Travellers In the remoter parts of Ger
many are pretty sure to come across stories
| of animal ghosts. Indeed. Germany has
| finer crop of all sorts and conditions OF
| ghosts than any other country in the world.
| The most famous Of these stories is that OF
| the wild Troop Of Rodenstein."
Before 1t passed over" as spiritualists
say, this troop was band of robbers who
| owned the castle Of Rodenstein and COM
mitted many frightful crimes. To this day.
| it is said, the troop may be heard dashing
madly along the road to the castle Moth
| ing is seen, but the hoof-beats and neigh
| ing of the horses, the curses of the troopers
and the barking of hounds make the peas
ant Shudder as they pass by him on the
lonely road.
Ghostly fiocks of sheep are also frequent
| ly seen by the peasants of some parts of
Germany. if their word may be accepted.
1t is supported by several tourists. includ-
ing an English clergyman. The latter de-
clares that the driver of his carriage got
down and found himself in the midst OF the
animals, the size and beauty of which as
tonished him. They passed him at an I'M
usual rate, whilst he made his way through
them to find the shepherd. when, on getting.
to the end of the flock. they suddenly dis
appeared. He then first learned that his
fellow travellers had not seen them at all.
Another clergyman who met the spectral
muttons declares that he saw large
flock of sheep which stretched quite across
the road and was accompanied by shep-
herd and a long-haired black dog" AS he
gazed at the flock it vanished
Human Ghosts in Animal Shape.
The ghost lore of England and Scotland
abounds in tales of animal specters, but
they are generally deceased humans. who
for some reason are compelled to revisit
| earth in the form of an animal.
For example, the Dog of Mause, "a gray
ish beast" wandered about Scotland until
quite recently telling every one it met that
it was the ghost of David Soutar, who had
murdered a man by means of dog, and
was therefore doomed to walk the earth IN
the guise of a dog. 1t used to ask people,
of their Christian charity, to go to the
the VICTIM so that it might be released
from it's canine shape. Eventually, some
body was obliging enough to do this, and
the phantom dog appeared no more
The old farm laborers of Shropshire
firmly believe that human ghosts take
the form of bulls. and in Cornwall-that
stronghold of quaint legends and strange
SUperStitionS-the people say that SpiritS
of the departed return in the shape OF
roth to watch over the welfare of those
whom they hold most dear. Many a Corn
ishwoman has been seen to weep bitterly
at the sight of moth. and heard to de-
clare that 1t was the spirit OF her deao
baby.
A T. Quiller Couch. himself a Cornish
man. has written a pathetic poem on this
superstition. A young lover. whose sweet
heart had just died. is sitting in his study
thinking sadly of her. A moth flies in
through the open window and f1uttefs
around him. trying to attract his attention
At last it kisses him on the lips. and, irri-
tated by the interruption to his sweetiy
bitter thoughts, he brushes it to death
Then, too late, he realizes that it was the
spirit of his sweetheart come back to COM
fort him He has destroyed its earthly
tabernacle and condemned it to wander
houseless through the void of space to the
end of time.
Dog and Horse Phantorns.
A well-known English naval officer, who
is quoted by Andrew Lang, used to tell
story OF Il real afllEfidi SifoSt-lii"ht ID L"
say, the ghost of real animal. not
human ghost in Animal shape. He says
that he was sitting in room IN his coun-
try house with friend when they heard
a weIl-known bark on the stairs outside.
.why. that's old Peter!' said the friend.
referring to a favorite dog which had be-
fCnged to his host
Peter died since you were here last
said the raval officer.
tha yv
trembled violently. Presently the door or
the room was pushed open and they heard
the "pad-pad' of a dogs feet on the poi
ished floor. No dog could be seen. but the
invisible ghost of one walked over to the
hearthrug shook itself violently, and then
flung itself down heavily on the rug. The
jingle of the collar could be distinctly
heard
A hard-headed Scottish planter, who is
now living in Jamaica declares that he met
a ghostly mare three nights in succession
at the same spot when riding home from
his banana fields. Each time his horse
stopped dead auivering with fear. and
could only be made to pass the mare by
the liberal of whip and spur. On the
second night the planter tried to fog the
mare out of the way. but as his whip curled
over her back it only cut the air.
The planters two sons, not to be outdone.
swear that their horses were once raced
for mile by a spectral mule, which sud
denly vanished under their very eyes.
But the queereSt Jamaican ghost is one
which haunts a plantation called ''Tulloch."
1t is a spectral horse and buggy. and APP
pears with oppressive regularity two or
three times week. The clatter of the
horses hoofs and the scraping of the buggy
wheels on the carriage drive are plainly
he ard but when the people look out from
the house there is no horse buggy to be
seen. Hundreds of persons are ready to
testify to the truth of this story.
Some Fishy Ghosts.
The non-human ghosts are not confined
to dry land. There are stories of phantom
sharks in many parts of the world and one
which is supposed to haunt the waters
around Nassau is vouched for by cloud of
witnesses. 1t is called the "harbor master
a nickname applied to most famous
sharks-and is incredibly long. some of the
ina ginative local fishermen even making
it good rival of the sea serpent. 1t shines
with a weird phosphorescent glow even in
broad daylight, and is not to be scared
away by noise in the water like ordinary
sharks 1t has been hooked over and over
again. the fishermen say, but it always
vanisEes off the hook it is being pulled
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