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Excerpt from Modern Ghosts: Selected and Translated From the Works of Guy De Maupassant, Pedro Antonio De Alarcon, Alexander L. Kielland, Leopold Kompert, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, and Giovanni Magherini-Graziani
The most refined psychological speculation may extend the range of observation. But the mocking laughter of desert places, the cry of the banshee, the sudden impres sion of a presence, the strange and fanciful popular superstitions, as they are called, in the same way that unapprehended physical conditions are sagely called nervous prostra tion - what is the key to them all? What is a hallucination? Who Shall say conclusive ly that it is the thing that is not? And if it be, whence is it, and why?
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