alcestis-like

Updated: May 14, 2025

The apparition thereupon took up the lamp and staff, and walked to Merrion Square to the house of mourning, was admitted by the servants, and to the joy of the whole household was found to be the object of their grief returned, Alcestis-like, from the grave.

St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour - True Irish Ghost Stories