Friday, 10 September 2021

Just who in the past didn't believe in ghosts? ........ today on the wireless

Ghosts and stories of ghosts don't do much for me.


After all there are enough scary things going on in the world to unsettle me, leaving me quite happy not to import more in the form of stories of the undead.


On the other hand  Ancient Ghosts  which is part of a series on the History of Ghosts was interesting.

It is available on Radio 4, leaving me just to include the sleeve notes from the programme.

"When was the first time a human felt haunted?'

Kirsty Logan travels back to the world’s earliest civilisations to uncover where tales of ghosts first emerged.

From the earliest evidence of belief in an afterlife, seen in decorated bones in early grave sites, to Ancient Egyptian letters to the dead, and predatory Chindi unleashed to wreak deadly vengeance in the snowy wastes of North America, Kirsty tells the tales of the spirits that haunted our most ancient forebears, and became the common ancestor for ghost stories across all of human history".*

And later in the series you get a heap of ghost stories intermingled with a bit of history, giving a context to those stories.

Location; everywhere


Pictures; Halloween visitations in Manchester, 2019, from the collection of Andrew Simpson


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