MrRING
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(I posted this on another board, but as I haven't gotten any info there yet, I thought I'd try here as well)
So exactly what was this event all about? I found a picture (that doesn't seem to fit any story in the book) in M.R. James' The Book of Ghost Stories, where the description made it sound a bit like Spring-Heeled Jack.
Online, I could only find a German account that was web-translated:
Any ideas about what happened? or a better copy of the story?
So exactly what was this event all about? I found a picture (that doesn't seem to fit any story in the book) in M.R. James' The Book of Ghost Stories, where the description made it sound a bit like Spring-Heeled Jack.
Online, I could only find a German account that was web-translated:
The market spirit of Smithfield
To the probably strangest and become on record spirit, probably belongs around the center the 17. Century, on the market place of Smithfield, umherspukende spirit.
In the year 1654 the brochure “A described true relation OF the Smithfield Ghost” phantom as follows: The spirit of Smithfield is the shape of a lawyer, which is wrapped into a robe and carries horns on the head. At the feet it carries pointed shoes and in its hand holds it a large butcher's knife.
Its nuisance apparent floated the spirit of Smithfield in each Saturday night from for instance 21:00 to 0:00 clock. It proceeded completely purposefully and looked for all butchers home, in order to annoy these excessively. From whose entriss it arranged stands the large meat clubs and substantial damage. Some courageous men tried the shape with its own chopping and Fleischmessern too vertreiuser you did not succeed this however, there her only a Lufthauch felt instead of a true shape from meat and blood opposite to stand.
An involuntary confession at the Spuk was that the spirit as, into that turning lawyer wrapped, feature was described. Mallet, a local resident lawyer, had died briefly before at a meat poisoning. Unfortunately itself Mallet could not do probably in the fight of death, any more does not remember with which butcher it the spoiled meat had acquired. Thus it came that the spirit, after it had terrorized the butchers of Smithfield its “revenge campaign” to Whitechappel and Eastcheape expanded, around which there still by far worse things to butchers did.
Finally, after all butchers were afflicted, that disappeared to phantom just as suddenly as it had emerged. The question, whether it actually concerned with the market spirit of Smithfield now around the spirit of a deceased of lawyer, or only a Possenreisser, could be never clarified.
Any ideas about what happened? or a better copy of the story?