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ghosts in Australian Tales

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1896
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ghosts in Australian Tales

nature; the silent and solitary places where a few blasted trees crouch together like withered witches, who, brooding on some deed of blood, have suddenly been stricken horror-stiff. Riding through this nightmare landscape, a whirr of wings, and a harsh cry disturb you from time to time, hideous an…

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2,264
Year
1,896
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
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Record ID
2264
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
Australian Tales; Marcus Clarke
Published
1896
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghosts
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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nature; the silent and solitary places where a few blasted trees crouch together like withered witches, who, brooding on some deed of blood, have suddenly been stricken horror-stiff. Riding through this nightmare landscape, a whirr of wings, and a harsh cry disturb you from time to time, hideous and mocking laughter peals above and about you, and huge grey ghosts with little red eyes hop away in gigantic but noiseless bounds. You shake your bridle, the mare lengthens her stride, the tree-trunks run into one another, the leaves make overhead a continuous curtain, the earth reels out beneath you like a strip of grey cloth spun by a.

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