| 词条 | The Knight's Ghost |
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SynopsisA woman goes to bring her son to the shore to greet her husband, but she receives news that he has been killed in Dunfermling. She invites his men to the castle to drink and takes them down 53 steps to the cellar. She gets them drunk, locks them in the cellar, and throws the keys into the sea. That night her husband's ghost appears at the foot of her bed with the keys and tells her to unlock the cellar. He says his men could not have fought harder for him, wading in red blood to the knee. She asks him when she will die, but he tells her that he has no more power than God has granted him. He assures her she will go to heaven, but before she dies she will remarry to a greater knight than he. They will have nine children: six daughters, and three sons who will fight for king and country. One son will be a duke, the second a knight, the third a laird.[2] See also
References1. ^{{cite book | last = Child | first = Francis | title = English and Scottish Ballads, Vol 1 | publisher = Boston: Little, Brown and Company | year = 1857 | pages = 210–213 | url = https://archive.org/details/englishandscotti01chilrich}} 2. ^{{cite web |url= http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Child%27s_Ballads/210|title= Child's Ballads/265|accessdate=13 February 2012}} External links
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