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- noun Alternative form of
ghostlore .
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Examples
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The story is one of the best known and most interesting in ghost-lore.
Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead
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This volume attempts to present such a selection from the old ballads as shall represent them fairly in their three main classes, -- those derived from superstition, whether fairy-lore, witch-lore, ghost-lore, or demon-lore; those derived from tradition, Scotch and English; and those derived from romance and from domestic life in general.
Ballad Book Katherine Lee Bates 1894
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Again, with regard to the supernatural, there was the stimulus of the conversation of the Shelleys and of Lewis, brimful of magic and ghost-lore; and lastly, there was the glamour of _Christabel_, "the wild and original" poem which had taken
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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_Some Siamese ghost-lore_ by A.J. Irwin.] [Footnote 239: _J.ur.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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