"Apparitional" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the midst of the round, I feel as one within the circle of a charm. And verily this is enchantment; I am bewitched, bewitched by the ghostly weaving of hands, by the rhythmic gliding of feet, above all by the flitting of the marvellous sleeves— apparitional, soundless, velvety as a flitting of great tropical bats. No; nothing I ever dreamed of could be likened to this. And with the consciousness of the ancient hakaba behind me, and the weird invitation ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... quality of the following ky[o]ka can be understood. A picture which appears in the Ky[o]ka Hyaku-Monogatari shows a maid-servant anxious to offer a cup of tea to her mistress,—a victim of the "ghost-sickness." The servant cannot distinguish between the original and the apparitional shapes before her; and the difficulties of the situation are suggested in the first of the ky[o]ka which ...
— The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories • Lafcadio Hearn |
