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| | Ghost Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Paiute tradition that lead to the Natdia (Ghost Dance) began in the 1870 in the Western Great Basin from the visions of Wodziwob (Gray Hair) concerning earth renewal and the reintroduction of the spirits of ancient Numu (Northern Paiute) ancestors into the contemporary day to help the Numu. | | | In essence, it is said to heal the earth and to heal all the people of the four worlds, that is, red, black, white, and yellow. | | | The Ghost Dance by the Ogalala Lakota at Pine Ridge |
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| | LEFTFIELD-PSI Famous Ghost Hunters |
| | He gained enough acclaim as a ghost hunter and sufficient respect for his knowledge of the field that he was contracted to write a number of entries related to ghosts and the occult for the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1875. | | | Among Lang's other works on the subject were Cock Lane and Common Sense (1894), The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) and The Making of Religion (1898). | | | The Roman poet Lucretius is recalled by students of the classics for having died stark raving mad from the effects of a love potion given to him by his wife, the historical record clearly demonstrates that he was a firm believer in ghosts and devoted some time to investigating and researching claims of apparitions. |
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| | The Ghost Dancers - notes for performers |
| | Thus, in the Ghost Dance Song, verse 2, the altos must glide on the diphthong in "firelike," and not divide it into "fah-yerlike." The rest I leave to the common sense of performers. | | | Broadway brashness is to be avoided, though: until the Ghost Dance proper begins, the chorus have to convey weariness in all their movements. | | | It should not be used in the Ghost Dance sequences, however, unless it has some registration that sounds reasonably close to an old Hammond electric with a good bouncy reverb, which is the precise sound I had in mind for those sections. |
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| | Erowid Peyote Vault : History : A Brief Summary of the Relationship between Peyote Use and the Ghost Dance |
| | The leader claimed from peyote the same sort of revelations acquired in the Ghost Dance trance, and taught that while under the influence of the peyote one could learn the rituals belonging to bundles and societies; in this manner he himself amassed considerable star lore. | | | The view was that following the Ghost Dance would result in the return to the 'Good Ole Days' and that the whites would disappear. | | | Wovoka's Ghost Dance vision was primarily non violent, but as it spread, it included increasingly violent elements. |
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http://www.erowid.org/plants/peyote/peyote_history1.shtml
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| | Mackay, Charles, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Chapter 12: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | The Cock Lane Ghost, as it was called, kept London in commotion for a considerable time, and was the theme of conversation among the learned and the illiterate, and in every circle, from that of the prince to that of the peasant. | | | The ghost was then summoned to appear, but it appeared not; it was summoned to knock, but it knocked not; it was summoned to scratch, but it scratched not; and the two retired from the vault, with the firm belief that the whole business was a deception practised by Parsons and his daughter. | | | If ghosts and witches are not yet altogether exploded, it is the fault, not so much of the ignorant people, as of the law and the government that have neglected to enlighten them. |
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| | Art Bulletin, The: We see a ghost: Hogarth's satire on Methodists and Connoisseurs |
| | The Cock Lane Ghost story was started by the Methodist Richard Parsons, who claimed to hear strange noises in his house at night, "like knuckles knocking against the wainscot," particularly in the bedchamber of his eleven-year-old daughter. | | | The Cock Lane hoax sparked off a period of ghost story revival in which numerous older ghost stories were printed - and often satirized - in contemporary pamphlets and periodicals. | | | Villers." Here Hogarth refers to Sir George Villiers of Brookesby, who is said to have returned as a ghost after his death and prophesied the murder of his son, the famous first duke of Buckingham.(32) The ghost depicted in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism is wearing typical early-seventeenth-century dress. |
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| | Great Fire of London. Cock Lane Ghost. Haunted London. Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane. (London Walks) |
| | The ghost proved more than willing to oblige and informed him, through Parsons, that if he would spend a night by Miss Fanny’s resting place in the crypt of St John’s church, then she would answer any questions by knocking on the lid of her coffin. | | | When news spread that a vengeful ghost was making its presence known at 33 Cock Lane, Londoners flocked to make its acquaintance, where they heard the revenant of Miss Fanny - using a sequence of banging, scratching and knocking noises – accuse William Kent of poisoning her with arsenic. | | | Furthermore, he insisted that it was the spirit of Miss Fanny that was behind this latest outbreak, and that she had informed him that William Kent had, infact, murdered her. |
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http://www.london-walks.co.uk/29/great-fire-of-london-cock.shtml
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| | Chapter Cobalt <i>to</i> Cock Lane Ghost of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable |
| | Cock Lane Ghost A tale of terror without truth; an imaginary tale of horrors. | | | Parsons, the owner, declared proceeded from the ghost of Fanny Kent, who died suddenly, and Parsons wished people to suppose that she had been murdered by her husband. | | | Chapter Cobalt to Cock Lane Ghost of C by Brewer's Phrase and Fable |
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| | Learn more about Comic book in the online encyclopedia. |
| | In addition, the filmed adaptation of non superhero comic books like Ghost World, Road to Perdition and American Splendor have the medium's fans hopes that its image can be changed for the better. | | | A comic book consists of a book containing stories told with sequential images, usually combined with text. | | | Max Gaines published the first comic book, Funnies on Parade in 1933. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/c/co/comic_book.html
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| | Cock Lane Ghost |
| | The expression "Cock Lane Ghost," has come to be used to designate any tale of fright or credulity that is purely imaginary. | | | Cock Lane Ghost, the name given to the imagined cause of certain knockings which were heard in the house of a Mr. | | | In consequence Johnson was severely attacked for his credulity in a poem entitled, The Ghost, by Churchill. |
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http://www.factopia.com/aiton-encyclopedia-vol2/cock-lane-ghost.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Ghost Dance |
| | "Ghost Dance" is the second book in Christie Golden's Dark Matters trilogy and as good as the first one, "Cloak and Dagger" was, "Ghost Dance" is that much better. | | | This is the second installment of a three part series calld Ghost Dance written by Christie Golden. | | | "Ghost Dance" easily picks up where "Cloak and Dagger" left off, although there is one minor distraction which is the "cleverly" played retrospective of the first novel, just in case somebody decides to start this brilliant Trek trilogy with the second novel instead of the first one. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671035835
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| | Ghost Dance by Carole Maso, ISBN: 0865472394 |
| | Ghost Dance is the first book in a line of relentlessly experimental and highly esteemed works by Carole Maso. | | | Unconventional and intense, this novel tells a harrowing tale of the human search for love and understanding.Recommended for most fiction collections. | | | Narrating a family story through the voice of a young writer whose mother has recently been killed, Maso invites readers to experience firsthand bothwomen's love and courage, capabilties of imagination, their persistence of memory, and generosity of spirit. |
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http://www.campusi.com/isbn_0865472394.htm
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| | Fortean Times - 150 SCRATCHING FANNY |
| | As the ghost is a good deal offended at incredulity, the persons present are to conceal theirs if they have any, as by this concealment they can only hope to gratify their curiosity. | | | Whatever the true story, the Cock Lane ghost was such an outstanding source of entertainment in 1762 that it won pride of place among the many fanciful impostures and frauds that festooned that most theatrical of centuries. | | | Moore suggested that Kent visit the ghost himself, and Kent agreed – his only hope of clearing his name was to flush out the story and prove it to be a fraud. |
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| | Dance of Death |
| | "Dance of Death" is a sequel to the previous "Brimstone", and likewise represents the latest in an arc concerning Pendergast that began with "The Cabinet of Curiosities" and continued in "Still Life With Crows". | | | Dance of Death - The Dance of Death Home Dr. Warthin Warthin Collection Related Links The Dance of Death is a motive concerned with that great reminder of mortality. | | | It is worth noting that as with other recent Preston and Child novels, "Dance of Death" drifts away from the early science and story driven novels, and derives more of its tension from character development. |
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| | Cock Lane and Common-Sense |
| | Second sight, the fairy world, ghosts, ‘wraiths,’ ‘astral bodies’ of witches whose bodies of flesh are elsewhere, volatile chairs and tables, all were spoken of by witches under torture, and by sworn witnesses. | | | The whirring noise occurs in the case of the Cock Lane Ghost (1762), in Iamblichus, in some ‘haunted houses,’ and is reported by a modern lady spiritualist in a book which provokes sceptical comments. | | | Meantime Homer, and Theocritus in familiar passages, attest this belief in light attendant on the coming of the divine, while the Norse Sagas, and the well-known tale of Sir Charles Lee’s daughter and the ghost of her mother (1662), speak for the same belief in the pre-Christian north, and in the society of the Restoration. |
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| | Wovoka and the Ghost Dance And The Ancient Mediterranean | | | The last ghost dance : a guide for earth mages New York : Ballantine, 2000. | | | The last ghost dance : a guide for earth mages |
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| | Ghost Signs - Moon Dance by S.P. Somtow |
| | Comment: I had the highest of high hopes for this book, but was disappointed to see a bunch of Old West characters straight from Central Casting, including such worthies as the Snake Oil Salesman and the Town Drunk, each with their usual motivations. | | | Wildly imaginative, meticulously developed and grand in its scope, "Moon Dance" is unlike any other werewolf novel I've ever read. | | | Certainly, the scope of the story deserves a lot of credit; it's damned hard to orchestrate a sprawling, multiple-viewpoint novel, and Somtow made a valiant effort. |
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| | Ghost of a flea |
| | Michel Foucault is said to have been worried about the translation of his works into English. | | | Mark Steyn calls the accidental shooting death of an electrician on the London Underground a "public execution". | | | MasaManiA documents Decorer, a Japanese trend that demonstrates its lineage in Japan's fashion history, noted for muted palettes and public restraint in interpersonal etiquette. |
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| | About Christie |
| | Other projects include a slew of Star Trek novels, among them The Murdered Sun, Marooned, and Seven of Nine, and "The Dark Matters Trilogy," Cloak and Dagger, Ghost Dance and Shadow of Heaven. | | | The Voyager novel relanch, which includes Homecoming and The Farther Shore, were bestsellers and were the fastest-selling Trek novels of 2003. | | | All are now sadly out of print, but snag Christie and see if she has any copies for sale. |
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| | Interview with Author Adam Wright |
| | I dedicated Ghost Dance to my two best friends and to B.J. According to conventional wisdom, there are only nine Western plots: the cavalry and Indians story; the repentant gunfighter story; the ranch story; the lawman story; the outlaw story; the railroad story; the revenge story; the range-war story, and the rustler story. | | | When I was in my twenties (and back in England), I saw a programme on TV about the Sioux Indians' Ghost Dance religion and entered a Radio Derby short story competition with a story about a white man who goes through the Ghost Dance. | | | Ghost Dance will always be a favourite because it was the first. |
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| | BookPage Interview May 2000: Michael Ondaatje |
| | Anil and her archaeologist partner Sarath aren't the only of Ondaatje's characters to descend into the earth. | | | Ondaatje's depiction of Anil's painstaking work reading the bones of the dead is as haunting as it is true to life. | | | But the darkest Greek tragedies were innocent compared to what was happening here." Anil, who has lived abroad for 15 years, returns to her old home as a forensic anthropologist on a human rights mission to find, examine, and identify the bones of the Disappeared. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0005bp/michael_ondaatje.html
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| | Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, Ghost World |
| | I didnt see Ghost World as being funny, and it was subtle, so I wasnt sure it would translate to a film. | | | It didnt have anything to do with Ghost World, because Seymour didnt drive, but I wanted to work it into the film, so I had him drive to the blues club so kids could cut him off.. | | | Ghost World is about a girl trying to find something authentic to connect with in a culture contrived to sell you things. |
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | Third in the “Ghost World” trilogy, after Ghost Drum (Faber 1987) and Ghost Song (Faber 1992). | | | * + Ghost Dance ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-32537-5, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], $16.00, 217pp, hc, cover by Joseph A. Smith) [ Ghost World ] Young-adult fantasy novel about a shaman’s apprentice who tries to save her people from an evil czar, third in the “Ghost World” series. | | | This is the first in a two-volume set, and does not include horror, ghost, and gothic writers, to be covered in the second volume. |
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| | AVA - CASEBOOK |
| | In "Evening," the novel's last section, she compares her body to "an unfamiliar coast, a foreign coast" (251). | | | Maso, author of AVA, appears to be telling the reader how to read the novel, but she is also undermining and exposing her own authority. | | | The second section focuses on two central aspects of Maso's poetics of the novel in AVA : first, her relinquishing of authority and control in the text to make a space for the reader, and, second, her invocation of other forms and genres to challenge narrative codes and her wish for fiction's "democracy." |
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| | EGFGenHist |
| | This study is concerned with the representation of ghosts in an 'age of enlightenment.' It identifies a shift from a problematic of truth to an aesthetic affirmation. | | | On the Cock Lane ghost craze of 1762 and the reaction of such observers as Horace Walpole. | | | The case of the Cock Lane Ghost 2. |
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| | NEW PLAY, `COCK LANE,' IS FRIGHTENING, FUNNY WORK |
| | A ghost tale, even one that is presented as a comedy with music, is really an opportunity to savor the thrill of inexorably increasing fear. | | | At its best, Deborah Pryor's new play ``Cock Lane,'' is a genuine palm-moistener of a ghost tale, and a comedy of high slapstick and clever wit. | | | The play itself is an interesting piece, mixing psychological drama with spiritism, joining a coming-of-age plot of a ghost tale tinged with fertility rituals and puberty rites. |
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| | The Ninth Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference: Abstracts of papers |
| | Significantly, these include two embodiments of the “antelope wife” of the book's title, who wavers between her human and animal manifestations to influence the world experienced by the other characters as profoundly as does Scranton Roy's story. | | | The ghost dance was basically a religious movement that took many forms as it passed from one tribe to another, yet its core message of return of the old ways and future of peace and happiness remained the same. | | | On dance masks and fans the circle often represents the village—either human or animal—and the dot often becomes a seeing eye—a hawk's, an owl's, a seal's—a kind of life-giving telescopic peep hole maintaining the essential connections between both the material and the spiritual parts of the subsistence world. |
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http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/renvall/pamold/conference2002/abstracts.html
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| | Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje |
| | Anils Ghost is an example of the novel as a form of artistry. | | | As is characteristic of his work, Anils Ghost is rich with imagery that lingers long after the covers are closed. | | | Canadian Literature - Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje- http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/canadian_literature/41342 |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/canadian_literature/41342
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| | Powells.com Interviews - Michael Ondaatje |
| | Anil's Ghost may be a familiar style to earlier books I've written, but it feels new to me. The vocabulary is new. | | | So when I finish a novel, whether it's Anil's Ghost or Billy the Kid or In the Skin of a Lion, that's it. | | | Anil's Ghost is a violent, chaotic war story, a page-turning, word-churning flash of a novel. |
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