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Tables of Contents for Alas, Poor Ghost
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
198
Background
1
5
The Structure of This Book
6
3
Belief and Disbelief
9
30
Is Belief in the Supernatural Declining?
9
5
Telling It Slant
14
3
Patterns of Belief
17
8
Order in Chaos
25
3
Family Love
28
3
Competing Cultures
31
8
Contact with the Dead
39
38
Life after Death
39
3
Ghosts and Hauntings
42
7
Visitations
49
2
Cause, Consequence, and Lack Liquidated
51
15
Delving
66
9
Summary
75
2
Witnesses, Bereavement, and the Sense of Presence
77
38
Kate Bennett
Witnesses
77
4
Bereavement
81
14
The Sense of Presence
95
16
Conclusion
111
4
From Private Experience to Public Performance
115
24
Supernatural Experience as Narrative
Belief and Disbelief: Patterns of Narration
118
6
Story Dialectic: The Imaginary Judge and Jury
124
13
In Brief
137
2
``Alas, Poor Ghost!''
139
60
Case Studies in the History of Ghosts and Visitations
The Ghost of Hamlet's Father
139
6
The Cock Lane Poltergeist
145
5
The Clodd/Lang Debate
150
9
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
159
8
A Brief History of ``Witnesses''
167
6
Appendices
1. Collecting the Data
173
10
The Manchester Study
173
5
The Leicester Study
178
5
2. Transcribing Spoken Texts
183
6
3. The Manchester Respondents
189
4
4. Linguistic Clues to Belief and Disbelief
193
2
5. Word Lists Showing Story Patterns in Memorates
195
4
Notes
199
8
References Cited
207
14
Index
221