Books and bookmen (1899) (14597516408)

Identifier: booksbookmen00lang (find matches) Title: Books and bookmen .. Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Subjects: Bibliomania Literary forgeries and mystifications Publisher: London, Longmans, Green Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: horrid Frenchspecies of apparition, la lavandiere de la nuit,who washes dead mens linen in the moonlitpools and rivers. Whether this simulacnini bemeant for the spirit of the well (for everythinghas its spirit in Japan), or whether it be theghost of some mortal drowned in the well, Icannot say with absolute certainty ; but theopinion of the learned tends to the former con-clusion. Naturally a Japanese child, when sentin the dusk to draw water, will do so with fearand trembling, for this limp, floppy apparitionmight scare the boldest. Another bogie, aterrible creation of fancy, I take to be a vampire,about which the curious can read in DomCalmet, who will tell them how whole villagesin Hungary have been depopulated by vam-pires ; or he may study in Fauriels Chansonsde la Grece Moderne the vampires of modernHellas. Another plan, and perhaps even more satis-factory to a timid or superstitious mind, is toread in a lonely house at midnight a storynamed Carmilla, printed in Mr. Sheridan Le Text Appearing After Image: RAISING THE WIND. 66 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. Fanus In a Glass Darkly. That work willgive you the peculiar sentiment of vampirism,will produce a gelid perspiration, and reduce thepatient to a condition in which he will be afraidto look round the room. If, while in this mood,some one tells him Mr. Augustus Hares story ofCrooglin Grange, his education in the practiceand theory of vampires will be complete, and hewill be a very proper and well-qualified inmateof Earlswood Asylum. The most awful Japanesevampire, caught red-handed in the act, a hideous,bestial incarnation of ghoulishness, we havecarefully refrained from reproducing. Scarcely more agreeable is the bogie, or witch,blowing from her mouth a malevolent exhala-tion, an embodiment of malignant and maleficentsorcery. The vapour which flies and curls fromthe mouth constitutes a sending, in thetechnical language of Icelandic wizards, and iscapable (in Iceland, at all events) of assumingthe form of some detestable supernatural animal,to de

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