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token nHAUNTED HOUSE. TOKENS. SPIRITS. M. ...I think another thing too,probably not associated with _the Boo-man_ [PT] type,but...which I've seen in the...Greenspond and which is something [that] has gone in recent years, is that of the fear of the supernatural [PT]: that's the fear of _ghosts_ [PT]. When I was small,you know,everybody kind of lived with that fear that there were such things as _ghosts_ [PT] an' _tokens_ [PT] lurking around...lurking around everywhere. And I don't think that there are any boys and girls in Greenspond now...I don't think that the parents ever say to them that there are _ghosts_ [PT] there or there are [spirits] [PT] there. An' all the old _lights_ [PT] all the _old_ _haunted places_ [PT] that I heard about when I was small in Greenspond...I've talked to some o' the other boys and girls casually about it an' they don't even know any...any- thing about it.So Apparently that these things were just...lots o' them were just ideas and not realities. JW. So going back about twenty years ago there'd be a...quite a ...a lot of...of ghosts an...around... M. Right. Right. JW. Now roughly when in the intervening time do you think they began to began to decline? M. Well,I think that,like I said before,that since television has come to the fore,that people have become much more enlightened and that to youngsters,if...if oldsters relate a story of _ghosts_ [PT] well I think to them it's just anoth- er story,an' it doesn't have any indication. Because when I was small, now not small but big,that there were supposed to be _ghosts_ [PT] on the Ferry...Ferry Wharf,which is a...a _big wharf_ that connects Over... [REVERSE] Greenspond to Ship Island.And on certain [nights,]if you go across that _wharf_,that you were supposed to hear /a man fall over...fall overboard/, though he had fallen there years an' years before. But everyone just took it for granted that [was] what happened. And then on Ship Island there were...was /a house that was haunted / by _ghosts_ [PT]. Someone had been murdered there,probably oh a hun- dred years or more ago,and every[night], or certain times, a _light_ [PT] was supposed to be seen in (the window). Now all these things were...made people very much scared an' I...I think that a lot of the younger people were very scared in these days. They lived with that fear.Actually it wasn't until I left Greenspond that I really got over(a)lot of that silly ...silly ideas about _ghosts_ [PT] an' [spirits][PT] an' (devils) [PT] an' all that sort of things. JW. Now that /house that's was haunted/, it was...it's empty now is it? M. Yes.It's...Oh it('s...it ...it's no longer there now.Fear of the supernatural. _Ghosts_ etc.J. WIDDOSON 1607 [check]Used IUsed INot usedSlip contents continue on reverse side, so see T_1445