N ightmare-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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