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dress583 Ghosts. _Dressup._ [check] Card 1 of 2 JW. Now any other places in the community where ghosts or spirits partic- ularly would be? No other particular ghosts you remember? M. Oh I...yes there are supposed to be other places,but I can't recall now. But I know - ths is something I didn't tell you on the paper [ie the FLCQ] either - that every year without fail, an' even now, there -> is...there is a _dressup_ [PT] in Greenspond. Somebody, around the...February or March month, dresses up and goes around and steals clothes off lines, frightens people an' is a...oh, weird-lookin' char- acter. JW. Now do you remember what the disguise was like? M. Well...I've never seen him, but... JW. What time does he operate? At night? M. Late at _night_. JW. And you say 'him' : it's usually a man that does this? M. Yes. Mr. Carter, probably this would help you,Mr Carter probably forty years ago,Gus Carter in Greens -pond, he was aware of _the...dressup_ [PT]. An' one night he went home with his girlfriend, about forty years ago, and he saw _the [check] dressup_ [PT] coming down over the church hill. And so usually people would run away from him [ie from _the dressup_] and he made after him [ie Carter chased _the dressup_] and he caught him up behind the church an' he stripped him,an' found out who hs was. And all the people in Greenspond for years after that knew who this part- icular _dressup_ [PT] was. An' I suppose probably after that there weren't any _dressups_ [PT] for several years,but...well every year that I could remember down to [ie at] Greenspond, there has been a _dressup_ [PT]. And there are two girls staying OVER... [reverse] in the house where I am now [ie in St John's] and to make it quite alive: this year in probably...a month ago,their mothers wrote up to them an' said that _the Dressup_ [PT] was out last week! So that shows that that must be still alive, but who it is I...I...I don't know. JW. Only one person does it? M. Yes. JW. An' it's aroun -d February - March? M. Right. JW. For no particular reason? It just seems to happen at that time of year? M. ...(Well),just seems to happen; that's the time o' the year it happens. JW. For how many weeks? Say,beginning of March...? M. Probably a month or so, And... JW. Middle of March...middle of Feb. to middle of March: that sort of time? M. Yes,that's right.And probably another reason for _a dressup_ [PT] occurring is that a father or mother or somebody goes out looking to see who...who Mary or Tom is courting,or probably to scare somebody to get them home. They saw...they saw _a ghost_ [PT] an' so they'd be home earlier to...tomorrow night! JW. What sort of dress have you heard _the Dressup_ dressing up in - that particular one that was stripped,for instance? M. Well he was all dressed in white...tradit- ional...traditional _ghost_ [PT]. And when he walked,of course,he didn' 't (have)...he...he walked with a muffled sound,even though the ground was hard or even though...though 'twas quite frosty. But people who had seen these _Dressups_ [PT] had usually...they usually walk with a muffled sound. 'pparently they had something on their feet that didn't make any noise - cushions or something? JW. An' they would wear what? A sheet or...? Yeah. Mm. M. Yeah. They wore a sheet.Something like a..._a Mummer_ [PT] would dressed,but they had a _veil_ OVER...J. WIDDOSON [check]J.WIDDOSONUsed I and SupUsed I and Sup5Used Idress down, ~ off, ~ up, dress off/out, dress up, dress in the fools, LIMB, dress-up, FOO