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Medieval ghost stories featured rotten flesh, the walking dead and spoon-stealing spirits

By Alex Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
Stories of wandering spirits and the restless dead were common in the Middle Ages. These ghostly encounters were recorded in a wide variety of medieval literature.

Medieval ghost stories combined folklore traditions with religious doctrine. The widespread belief in purgatory – a place where souls were cleansed of sin before entering heaven – helped fuel the belief in…The Conversation


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