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This collection of sixteen stories contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research. As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination...

When St. John D. Seymour sat down to write Irish Witchcraft and Demonology in 1913, it was widely believed that Ireland had somehow escaped the witchcraft panic that swept across Europe for centuries. Apart from the famous Kyteler trial in medieval Kilkenny, the common view was that witchcraft simply never took much of a hold in Ireland. Seymour wasn't convinced. Digging through archives, court records, forgotten manuscripts, folklore, and eyewitness accounts, he uncovered a very different story.