Churchyard
It is not difficult to understand how the churchyard has come to be regarded as the special haunt of ghosts. The popular imagination may well be excused for supposing that the spirits of the dead continue to hover over the spot where their bodies are laid. The ancient Greeks thought that the souls of the dead were especially powerful Clairaudience near their graves or sepulchres, because of some natural tie binding soul and body, even after death. The more gross and earthly a soul was, the less willing was it to leave the vicinity of its body, and in consequence, spectres encountered in a churchyard were more to be feared than those met with elsewhere. The apparitions witnessed at the tombs of saints, however, were to be regarded rather as good angels than the souls of the saints themselves. Chymical Nuptials of Christian Rosenkreutz : (See Rosicrucians.)