Fw: [Steppes] bardic question

[Mike C. Baker]

Forwarded with permission -- a specific, brief, example about differing attitudes toward ghost stories in *roughly* the 16th century (jack me no Jacobites for a moment, 'kay?)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: willowjonbardc at juno.com 
To: kihebard at hotmail.com 
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:20 AM
Subject: RE: [Steppes] bardic question


The question of Christians and ghost stories brings to mind a period tale. Just after Scotland became Protestant a man lost his wife and quickly decided to marry again. He went  to his new Calvin minister and said he was being haunted by his old wife. The minister told him that that was Popish nonsense and he was eating too many spicy foods before going to bed. The man went home and was never bothered by his old wife again. 

This story suggest that there was a wide differents in how the Catholic Church and the different Protestant churches treated the concept of ghost and the undead. Something to think about. 

willow