Nightmare-Touch 



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WHAT is the fear of ghosts among those 

 who believe in ghosts ? 



All fear is the result of experience, 

 experience of the individual or of the race, 

 experience either of the present life or of lives for- 

 gotten. Even the fear of the unknown can have 

 no other origin. And the fear of ghosts must be 

 a product of past pain. 



Probably the fear of ghosts, as well as the be- 

 lief in them, had its beginning in dreams. It is a 

 peculiar fear. No other fear is so intense; yet 

 none is so vague. Feelings thus voluminous and 

 dim are super-individual mostly, feelings in- 

 herited, feelings made within us by the ex- 

 perience of the dead. 

 What experience ? 



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