Ghosts
Some believe Wemyss possesses, like a number of Scottish Castles, a "Green Lady". Green, in Scotland at any rate, has always been an unlucky colour, associated with death and misfortune. Particularly unfortunate is the girl who wears green on her wedding day. In the case of Wemyss, the ghost is that of a young woman wearing a trailing dress of green silk which rustles as she floats along the corridors within the castle. It is reported that her ghost has not in fact been seen for some years now, but no explanation for this is recorded.
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Famous quotes containing the word ghosts:
“The dead fed you
Amid the slant stones of graveyards.
Pale ghosts who planted you
Came in the night-time
And let their thin hair blow through your clustered stems.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“I think a Person who is thus terrifyed [sic] with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Or when the lawn
Is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return
Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn,
The sad intangible who grieve and yearn....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)