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ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life

ck. The ghost was dressed in the ordinary everyday garments of the Fisher's Ghost. 15 period, in fact, in Fisher's clothes. There can be no doubt whatever that Fisher's body and clothes were at this very time under the ground and rapidly becoming in a very decomposed and unpresentable and (with reg…

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2,015
Year
1,887
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Internet Archive
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Record ID
2015
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life; William Henry Suttor
Published
1887
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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ck. The ghost was dressed in the ordinary everyday garments of the Fisher's Ghost. 15 period, in fact, in Fisher's clothes. There can be no doubt whatever that Fisher's body and clothes were at this very time under the ground and rapidly becoming in a very decomposed and unpresentable and (with regard to the clothes especially) very rotten condition. If the ghost really wore Fisher's clothes, one wonders how such an unsubstantiality could support their weight, unless, indeed (but this is too funny or too dreadful to contemplate) clothes— material clothes— may become sublimed and spiritualized, and be invested with a future.

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