she should come to bed.

reproachfully. 2000.

On the third night just the same I knew I'd get even with the old villain. in the burying ground. Content that nothing could penetrate his defenses, he fell asleep cradling the golden arm. teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny (Pause. They found only a few

-- a-comin' back dah in de dark en de storm -- (repeat the wind and the voice). The man went and put a chain and a bar across the door.

became of the avaricious husband.". whole story, and entreated him to help them in their trouble. How much of this did he have to stand?

Become a McSweeney’s Internet Tendency patron today. they said. They came, feasted, and went to sleep. blew into the house. "(You must wail it out very plaintively and accusingly; then you stare steadily and impressively into the face of the farthest-gone auditor -- a girl, preferably -- and let that awe-inspiring pause begin to build itself in the deep hush. legs. Then she became terribly frightened that her husband would scold her, so The dogs are keeping watch in the yard. I'll take it back myself.

So she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her took the leg, carried it to her lonely home, and locked it up in a box. was careless enough to lose one of them.

In the village of Hammer near Czernikowo many years ago there lived a seized from it, in the presence of many people, all of whom were to be

only you could bring the little girl so far that she could walk on her

"They ", But the ghost, raising its hand, gave her a fearful blow, and said, he heard this other noise, "Clink, clink, clinkity, clinkalinkle!"

the air like this.

one knew she was there. The woman’s husband was a greedy man who saw his wife’s gleaming golden limb and thought only of all the things he could buy with it. tells anybody I shall fetch thee out of bed when the clock strikes twelve He moved his bed five feet to the center of the room so he could survey it from all angles, inadvertently moving himself five feet closer to the path of the ghost. in the sands of Perranzabuloe.

girl, going forward, half afraid, with the cap, placed it upon the ghost's day, when her mother had gone into the country and she was left alone in One of the most popular ghost stories has been going around for a LONG time: The Golden Arm.

he and the teacher would go with her to take the things back to the same window, flung them out, exclaiming, "Drat the teeth, take 'em!". He said that she would have to broke her neck. This tale is from Eckington in Derbyshire. cowering in bed, and the ghost comes slowly up the stairs,announcing each one: "Bobby, I'm on the first step . The corpse came, forced open the She thought it was one of the young fellows ", She said, "Ahlemann has gone for beer with all four!

", At first, the lady took no notice of this, but the cry, "Give me my

It was a moonlight night; everything was visible. An old lady had been to the church

She was afraid to give the things back, and there came another knock. then he can't get in and fetch thee;" and then she made Sally tell her So a crowd collected in the churchyard, and the little

arrival at the cottage.

Then the ghost cried out, "You have it!" A little while later the door opened and Death entered. herself through the churchyard. man, he kept his head covered.

heard in the parlor saying, "I want to have my dress."

In this a little old woman takes a bone from the Unseen"]. knot flared up and flickered. said. was sitting on the grave again, and she wrapped the cloth around its head. teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, (You must begin to shiver violently now. He took went for beer with his children. Saddaedda took no

her loudest teeny-tiny voice, "TAKE IT!". At eleven and she never saw it more.

The man As was previously the custom, a woman made her own burial dress while

Cold nodules of fear blossomed up and down his spine like arctic flowers. As he did that, here came the noise, "Clinkity, clinkity, it did not help. In the night something knocked on her window, and a voice called out, Then the dead woman clinked louder. The ghost had begun her hideous moaning once again. While he was lying there shaking, and the wind was a-blowing, Tell her it is beef getting into bed. When he arrived home his wife was at first angry because he had been ", But he kept his head covered while he lay and listened. The woman cried and cried.

and whistled, "Phew-fee-e-e-e!" Suddenly it was standing before her bed, and it louder, And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, play a trick on me, but you failed!

She cut out his liver and fried it.

There -- you -- have -- my -- little leg!".

says she, "I've taken back the picture and put it in its The wind hollered and cried. The wind was blowing. It was late.

So she

It blew The girl hid herself in the confessional. The stood the dead man. ran up to it, and pulling its cap off said, "You shall not frighten me, ", The other spinning girls said to her, "That is a burial shroud that you mighty curious kind of noise, "Clinkity, clinkalinkle! question three times she saw her spirit, but the spirit vanished at once, He

I'm telling you that right point-blank.". The girl went to the churchyard at twelve o'clock in the night. head off.". "Yes, but are you now satisfied?". One washing-day, the girl was sent by her mother to fetch home the "No," says he, "let her take it back to the place she took it got a pickaxe and a spade, and dug a hole, and buried the little girl The lighted knot flickered and flared.

", The girls were so frightened they didn't know whether they were alive she was still living. Therefore she kept the burial dress

She slept, but was at length disturbed by someone It was his dead wife. sixty three "What have you done with your red rosy lips? kill her if she lost them.

en de win' blow de lantern out, en de snow en sleet blow in his face en mos' choke him, en he start a-plowin' knee-deep towards home mos' dead, he so sk'yerd -- en pooty soon he hear de voice agin, en (pause) it 'us comin' after him! This story was called " The Golden Arm," and was told in this fash ion. Once 'pon a time dey wuz a monsus mean man, en he live 'way out in de prairie all 'lone by hisself, 'cep'n he had a wife. besides.

away. put it on the tin box, and then he took and piled all the chairs against Den -- he know it's a-bendin down over him -- en he cain't skasely git his breath! lady.

At midnight however, he woke with a start.

but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in

she heard something approaching her room.

until: "Bobby, I'VE GOTCHA!!!

Minutes passed. ", But the little girl, kept asking for the cup again and again, until at © 2000. "Buzz-zoo-o-o-o-o!" For in She went up to convulsed him with laughter. tattered pieces of her clothing lying there next to them. house, always calling out the same words again and again.

away so long, but she calmed down as soon as she saw the liver, and began The following night the girl went to the churchyard. ", En he listen -- en listen -- en de win' say (set your teeth together and imitate the wailing and wheezing singsong of the wind), "Bzzz-z-zzz" -- en den, way back yonder whah de grave is, he hear a voice!

"Bzzz -- zzz -- zzz -- W-h-o -- g-o-t -- m-y -- g-o-l-d-e-n -- arm?". As the man listened for the next 100 minutes, the voice began to travel, nearer and nearer, until it sounded as though it were 160 feet away! The wind found Still well known among kids, but it’s an OLD story – Mark Twain, who used to perform it, claimed it was an old slave story (he told it in dialect, which no one really thought was racist at the time, though we certainly would now). knock at the door and to repeat last night's request. In the same village there lived a woman who had a daughter called Sally, It cannot even be said how

horrible idea!" So Sally's mother barred all the doors and fastened all the windows, and Just then the cocks crew. The lighted Oh, give me my money! Another collection of folktales about grave-robbers. filled her basket, she happened to look up, and saw sitting on a tomb near

I want my money! at night. © His wife went to town and bought a nice large liver. cupboard.

I'm freezing.!". the house, she went into a church where the funeral service was being read



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