Of Bookish Things<p>Why <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ghosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ghosts</span></a> wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude </p><p>In 1863 <a href="https://c.im/tags/GeorgeCruikshank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeCruikshank</span></a>, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Caricaturist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caricaturist</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/BookIllustrator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookIllustrator</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/CharlesDickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesDickens</span></a>’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Novels</span></a>, announced:</p><p>"That anyone has ever thought of the gross absurdity and impossibility of there being such things as ghosts of wearing apparel … Ghosts cannot, must not, dare not, for decency’s sake, appear without clothes; and as there can be no such thing as ghosts or spirits of clothes, why then, it appears that ghosts never did appear and never can appear."</p><p>Stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside <a href="https://c.im/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>, are exceedingly rare</p><p>Note: <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ghost</span></a> in white sheet (Funeral Shroud)</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Victorian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VictorianBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictorianBritain</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VictorianSocialClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictorianSocialClass</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mid19thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mid19thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spiritualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spiritualism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PsychicalResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PsychicalResearch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GhostStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GhostStories</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VictorianLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictorianLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paranormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paranormal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AndrewLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndrewLang</span></a></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-ghosts-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/why-ghosts</span><span class="invisible">-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948</span></a></p>