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(2,710 posts) Fri Apr 3, 2015, 07:44 AM Apr 2015

Scottish Ghost Lore

In Ross-shire, Scotland, in the 18th century, the ghosts of the dying were called Tasks. Their disembodied cries were the repetitions of the moans of the sick.

pictured: By the Deathbed (Fever) I, by Edvard Munch 1915