reapparition

Updated: May 26, 2025

Yet in this strangeness Lilla found a disturbingly familiar quality, like an echo of something lost, a vague and diminished reapparition of an old ideal. "Yes," she said softly, "I wish we could be friends again. But the situation at home is so very delicate." After a long silence, he uttered, so low that she could hardly hear him: "Are there no other places?" The band still played Wiener Mad'l.

Stephen French Whitman - Sacrifice

According to Battel, the "Giaghi" corpse was seated as if alive in a vault; in this "infernal and noisome dungeon" were placed two wives with their arms broken, and thus there was no danger of the Zumbi or ghost killing men by reapparition. When the king of Old Calabar died, a huge hole was dug, with an off chamber for two sofas, one of which supported the dressed and ornamented corpse.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2