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

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par 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…

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