10-07-2005, 11:31 AM
Greetings
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This story may be responsible for the stereotype that ghosts carry chains, as well as the visual appearance of Bob Marley in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
Bob Marley....
hock: I wonder what he was singing..!
Regards
Arthes
Quote:Ah haWell, aside from my original mental image of this ghost in an raincoat... :? It seems this tale could be the earliest actually written down, that was in 1AD.
Quote:After a while, a dirty old man would appear, emaciated, dishevelled, and unshaven. If you looked at his hands or feet you'd see the source of all the clamor -- they were in shackles.So is this were the image of ghostly apparitions dragging chains around comes from? It seems to be such a common archetype (almost Jungian?)
I had always wondered were it started could we have Pliny Jr to thank? in fact any one know of an older story with manacled specters?
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This story may be responsible for the stereotype that ghosts carry chains, as well as the visual appearance of Bob Marley in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
Bob Marley....
hock: I wonder what he was singing..!Regards
Arthes
Cristina
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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