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Classic Ghost Stories

S02E63 Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Thrawn or Twisted Janet is a tale of devilish possession written in broad Scots. A chilling tale, if you can understand it. My commentary at the end has very little to do with Thrawn Janet, but does go on at length about the sound 'r'. Fascinating.If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In HereIf You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In HereYou could buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker)Become a Patronhttps://www.patreon.com/barcud (https://www.patreon.com/barcud)And you can join my mailing list and get a free audiobook: https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire)Music By The Heartwood Institutehttps://bit.ly/somecomeback*** (https://bit.ly/somecomeback***)Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody dies, don't they?

0:10.5

Everybody come back.

0:12.6

Isn't that same?

0:14.4

You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?

0:17.1

How do the dead comeback, mother?

0:19.9

What's the secrets of dead comeback?

0:21.7

Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson.

0:28.7

The Reverend Murdoch Sulis was long minister of the Murieland parish of Balwiri in the Vale of Dool,

0:38.0

a severe, bleak-faced old man, dreadful to his hearers, he dwelt in the last years

0:44.6

of his life without relative or servant or any human company, in the small and lonely man's

0:52.9

under the hanging shore.

0:55.2

In spite of the iron composure of his features,

0:58.8

his eye was wild, scared, and uncertain.

1:03.5

And when he dwelt in private admonitions on the future of the impenitent,

1:08.5

it seemed as if his eye pierced through the storms of time to the terrors

1:14.6

of eternity. Many young persons coming to prepare themselves against the season of the Holy

1:20.9

Communion were dreadfully affected by his talk. He had a sermon on 1st Peter 5 and 8th, the devil as a roaring lion, on the Sunday after

1:32.9

every 17th of August, and he was accustomed to surpass himself upon that text, both by the appalling

1:39.6

nature of the matter and the terror of his bearing in the pulpit. The children were frightened into

1:47.0

fits, and the old looked more than usually oracular, and were all that day full of those hints

1:55.1

that Hamlet deprecated. The manse itself, where it stood by the water of Dool among some thick trees, with the shaw overhanging it on the one side, and on the other, many cold, moorish hilltops rising towards the sky, had begun at a very early period of Mr. Sulis' ministry to be avoided in the dusk hours by all who valued

2:21.4

themselves upon their prudence, and good men sitting at the Clachin Alehouse shook their heads

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