The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Chapter XI

In which various uncanny disturbances involving dancing furniture, flying objects, and spontaneous fires are recounted across diverse lands and times, provoking inquiries into medical and supernatural causes alike, with testimony ranging from confessions of trickery to steadfast witness accounts. The narrative then turns to quaint and eerie Gaelic and Icelandic traditions of goblins and devils, where spirits manifest with mischievous and sometimes violent antics, setting a scene rich with spectral disquiet and human apprehension.