Why #Ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude
In 1863 #GeorgeCruikshank, the #Caricaturist and #BookIllustrator of #CharlesDickens’s #Novels, announced:
"That anyone has ever thought of the gross absurdity and impossibility of there being such things as ghosts of wearing apparel … Ghosts cannot, must not, dare not, for decency’s sake, appear without clothes; and as there can be no such thing as ghosts or spirits of clothes, why then, it appears that ghosts never did appear and never can appear."
Stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside #Folklore, are exceedingly rare
Note: #Ghost in white sheet (Funeral Shroud)
#Victorian #VictorianBritain #VictorianSocialClass #Mid19thCentury #Spiritualism #PsychicalResearch #GhostStories #VictorianLiterature #Paranormal #AndrewLang
https://theconversation.com/why-ghosts-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948