Cock Lane and Common-Sense
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PREFACE
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PREFACE
TO JAMES PAYN, Esq.
Dear Payn,
Spirits much more rare and valuable than those spoken of in this book are yours. Whatever ‘Mediums‘ may be able to do, you can ‘transfer‘ High Spirits to your readers; one of whom does not hope to convert you, and will be fortunate enough if, by this work, he can occasionally bring a smile to the lips of his favourite novelist.
With more affection and admiration than can be publicly expressed,
Believe me,
Yours ever,
ANDREW LANG.
Since the first publication of Cock Lane and Common-Sense in 1894, nothing has occurred to alter greatly the author‘s opinions. He has tried to make the Folklore Society see that such things as modern reports of wraiths, ghosts, ‘fire-walking,‘ ‘corpse-lights,‘ ‘crystal-gazing,‘ and so on, are within their province, and within the province of anthropology. In this attempt he has not quite succeeded. As he understands the situation, folklorists and anthropologists will hear gladly about wrait
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