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THEHACKNEY EXPRESSAND^JxrrMcJ ®bmfax.SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1895.SUPERSTITIONS.“ Clasbic ” Hackney has hardly advanced its reputation during the last few days. The political performance of Mr. Hebbekt ■Sobebtson, M.P., in seconding the AddresB in the House of (Jommons, does not appear to have added much lustre to the “ glorious traditions” of the past. And certainly the craze for “ ghost-hunting ” in the old churchyard Trill not enhance the intellectual repute of the inhabitants. Whether the craze took its rise from an old woman’s disordered fancy, or from the vagaries of some ghostly joker, is not very clear. It may be—and most likely is—a canard manufactured for the “silly season.” In any case, the incident, or series of incidents, serves to show that a large amount of superstition still lingers in the educated breast of the end of the nineteenth century. The “hunting,” as might be expected, haB led to a large display of rowdyism; and the light fingered fraternity appear to have used the opportunity to some purpose. The “ oldest inhabitant ” is carried back to the days of his youth, when the hollowed turnip, curved with eyes and mouth, and illuminated with a tallow candle, did duty in frightening the belated wayfarer. iJwellers in villages fifty years ago will remember the ghost of the suicide buried with a stake in his inside at the cross roads; and the ghost of the drowned interred in a corner of the old churchyard. There was surely some lane or path leading from his village where the ghost walked upon occasion—a terror to be avoided by a long oircuit on return from , a neighbouring town late at night. It may be Borne lonely pool had devoured a wholeOflrriflffAfnl nf Indian nn d in 4V.n
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Hackney Express and Shoreditch Observer
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Aug 24, 1895
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Paulette D.
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