Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — Children and Ghost Stories. [ARTICLE]

Children and Ghost Stories.

The attempt to keep young children in ignoranre of stories about ghosts, fairies, giants aud gypsies would certainly prove futile. If they are of a ne'rvous and imaginative temperament they will invent new terrors for themselves Instead of the old traditional ones. A little girl of 6, who had been jealously guarded against any acquaintance with nursery bogies and sit persitftlons. suffered from night terrors of a severe kind, in which she always Screamed out that she was being chased by robbers. But while if may be impracticable to protect children from a knowledge of the supernatural and mysterious, it is inexcusable to frighten them with hideous stories or to leave them a prey to the terrors of the solitude aud darkness.