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ghostlore en · NOUN

Etymology

From ghost + lore (“learning, knowledge”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A genre of folklore concerning ghosts.
   • Ghost stories and tales of railroad heroics and tragedy may have mixed to create this unique type of ghostlore. 2019, Matthew L. Swayne, Haunted Rails: Tales of Ghost Trains, Phantom Conductors, and Other Railroad Spirits, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
   • Three other sections of the state are important in this connection: the Adirondack Mountains and parts of the Catskills, which while sparsely settled and only slightly represented in this collection, have much good ghostlore yet to be collected. 1982, Louis Clark Jones, Three Eyes on the Past:
   • When one person tells another of a frightening experience, he is passing on ghostlore. 1995, Charles Edwin Price, Haunted Tennessee:
   • From ruthless gangsters to restless mail order kings, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the phantom remains of the passionate people and volatile events of Chicago history have made the Second City second to none in the annals of American ghostlore. 2004, Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen, The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television:

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ghostology