“One of the main reasons for ghosts wearing white was to do with the colour of grave wool — this was when the Burial in Woollens Acts began to come into effect decreeing that English wool must be used for shrouds. Grose noted that white-clad apparitions were ‘chiefly the churchyard Ghosts’, and Defoe, in An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, described the archetypal ghost of the era as ‘dress’d up … in a Shrowd, as if it just came out of the Coffin and the Church-yard’.”
“As a child, the American writer Edith Wharton was subject to such a visceral horror of ghosts that she could not bear to sleep in a room that contained a book of ghost stories. Her aversion continued into her twenties, and even books kept in other rooms would have to be put on the fire to ensure her peace of mind.”
Why don’t we just get rid of unnecessary regulatory bodies full of so-called “experts” in particular fields? Federal judges are perfectly capable of deciding, for example, what medications and forms of radioactive pollution should be legal. They have been to law school.
