... inhabitants of the village of Blackley have been thrown into a state of considerable excitement, by the alleged reappearance of a ghost or boggart. The house where this unearthly visitor has chosen to take up its winter's residence is .a very old building ...

... still larger tribe of honest-intentioned but weakminded creatures who frighten themselves about Jesuits, like children about ghosts, and who have a vague notiomof the Pope, as a sort of ecclesiastical ogre, whose greatest delight is to catch and to gobble ...