![]() ![]() Upon learning the truth, she killed herself (pined away?). Later she found that her suspicions had been unfounded. While passing through the countryside of Herefordshire, we heard the story of a young woman who, believing her lover to be unfaithful, did murder him. They represent continuity, albeit of a spectral kind. Ghosts therefore may be seen as a bridge of light between the past and the present, or between the living and the dead. It is the country where archaeology is placed on national television, and where every town and village has its own local historian. The English are also in many respects obsessed with the past, with ruins, with ancient volumes. The popularity of the English ghost tradition–the English see more ghosts than anyone else–is deeply rooted in its peculiar mingling of Germanic, Nordic and British superstitions. Alone among the countries of Europe, England is bordered by the original British (or Celtic ) nations. ![]() Several explanations for the ubiquity of the ghost in this land, can be offered. In the introduction to The English Ghost, Peter Ackroyd states that “England is a haunted country.” He elaborates: ![]()
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