"The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it."
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Source : Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.174
