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Chapters[edit | edit source

Forerunners

Creighton shares her personal encounters of Forerunners, supernatural signs that warn humans of impending deaths. Many tales of Forerunners often involve knocks on the door, church bells ringing when no one else can hear them, an owl hooting during the day, or seeing own apparitions of yourself.

Leave 'Em Lay

The second chapter collects tales of the supernatural being disturbed by humans and the actions of the living, for instance removing jewelry or bones from a coffin. And so, the troubled ghosts will uproar and cause disturbances to the living.

Ghosts Guard Buried Treasure

Helen Creighton shares her personal encounters of ghosts who guard treasure. Sporadically, a person would die as they stand guard while others bury the treasure, and so naturally, their ghosts will be protective of these treasures.

Foresight and Hindsight

Similarly to the Forerunners, which are associated with the sounds that occurs before an approaching event, the Foresights deal with the double visions and individuals who have the gift of being double-sighted, as well as having the ability to see a death ahead of time.

Devils and Angels

The first section of this chapter focuses on numerous interactions with the devil, including dancing and making deals. The second part focuses on stories of angelic visitations, which Creighton explains are unfortunately less frequent.  

Phantom Ships and Sea Mysteries

This chapter discusses the various myths of phantom ships, particularly the infamous privateer ship, Teazer. Creighton reveals that someone once told her “if [a person] sees the Teazer, [he/she] will die within a year.” She also reveals that she has two reports of sea serpents: one in the inland of Cranberry Lake, and another at Victoria Beach.

Ghosts Helpful, Harmful, and Headless

In this chapter, Creighton discusses the various kinds of ghost encounters that she has heard about. She groups them into three types of experiences: helpful ghosts like one that saved a man from Dartmouth’s life, harmful ghosts like one that tried to pull Captain David Hayden offshore, and headless ghosts that do not interfere with humans.

So Many Wandering Women

In this chapter, Creighton discusses the different case of reported female ghost that wander around, especially Lady Grey, who was a headless ghost that would disappear when others got close to her or wanted to interact with her. Creighton also mentions the female ghosts during this time liked to wander around and taunt humans.

There and Not There

Creighton recounts the many instances in Nova Scotia of things having been seen which, upon investigation, were not there at all. Mentioned are Lile a Frisee, Ingramport, Spectacle Island, and Peggy Cove.

Ghosts as Animals and Lights

Creighton collects tales of ghost animals, mostly in the form of dogs, pigs, and horses. She also details encounters with spirit lights, with the suggestion that these mysterious lights may be the result of phosphorus rising from swampland, or the work of mischievous local boys trying to scare other residents.

Haunted Houses and Poltergeists

Creighton recounts tales of haunted houses, in which supernatural events such as apparitions or household items moving themselves independently occurred. In some cases she visited the haunted houses directly to speak with their occupants.

The Bluenose Ghosts Festival[edit | edit source]

[ADD BOLD] One event inspired by Creighton's book is the Bluenose Ghosts Festival, whose goal is to preserve the cultural heritage of the Halifax Regional Municipality. The festival is an ongoing initiative by Alderney Landing, and engages many levels of the community. For example, students in Saint Mary’s University’s History Department are offered unique research projects as well as curriculum aligned educational programs and fine art projects for elementary and junior high students. In the present day, stories are still being collected in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in honour of Helen Creighton's extensive work on the subject. Students of all ages are promoted to research and retell entertaining stories inspired by Dr. Helen Creighton’s work on the supernatural. In order to pay homage to Dr. Creighton and her tireless efforts to document stories, songs, and experiences of Atlantic Canadians, the main goal of the festival is to continue to collect stories of Downtown Dartmouth.  As well, the festival is also a way of attracting people to visit Dartmouth.The Festival offers school programs and activities as well as cemetery tours, haunted houses, and other related events.[9]

Television Adaptation

[THIS IS A NEW SEGMENT, ADD HEADING] In 1966, Helen Creighton began to concentrate on editing, publishing, and publicizing the fruits of her work. She appeared in a CBC film, titled Lady of Legends, which focused on the stories she had printed in Bluenose Ghosts. This proved to be good publicity for her novel.

Criticism

[ADD TO THE END] Richard S. Tallman published an article in the Acadiensis which called Bluenose Ghosts “one of the better such collections published in North America.” Tallman called her personal approach which validated belief in the legends refreshing, but characterized her as a parapsychologist rather than a folklorist, due her lack of professional academic training and popularizing slant. Some critics also saw the tales collected in Bluenose Ghosts and its sequel Bluenose Magic as survivalism and vulgarization (Traditional Songs, 16). A review in Resource Links was more complimentary, citing, among other elements, Creighton’s attention to preserving the original voice of the Nova Scotians storytellers, and the book’s ability to demonstrate “how the supernatural is as much a part of Nova Scotian life as is the sea.”

Group Reflection

[THIS IS A NEW SEGMENT, ADD HEADING] Through this Wiki project, we learned that the Wikipedia community is very respectable, intelligent, and open. It requires collaborative efforts and attitudes from all users/ editors. The article genre is very neutral and objective, where Wiki users and editors refrain from making personal opinions onto the Wiki page. There seems to be an agency of Wikipedia editors being professional academic scholars; however, through this project, we learn that anyone has the opportunity to be a Wikipedia editor (only after completing the right training modules on Wiki Education). We were interested in Bluenose Ghosts, by Helen Creighton due to the lack of attention often given to female writers (or in this case, folklorists) who have contributed to Canadian literature. Additionally, Bluenose Ghosts focuses on a province whose stories often go untold, Nova Scotia.Throughout the process of creating a Wikipedia article, my group members and I set up goals to achieve and worked well together to complete them. We successfully found scholarly sources that enabled us to expand information pertaining to the Bluenose Ghosts Festival and criticisms of the novel. As well, we each read chapters of the book in order to create summaries for every section. One thing we were hoping for was more interaction on our talk page and suggestions from other Wikipedia editors. Unfortunately, this did not occur, and therefore we were not able to learn tips from other editors. ↵➞Our team proved to be very efficient and worked well together. We created a Facebook chat in order for fast communication, as well as a Google Docs page open for us to all edit at once. Hannah and Charlotte took the role of reflection leads, and Annika and Olivia were the technical leads. We divided our work evenly, and each either worked on summarizing chapters or adding to sections of the article that already existed. Overall, our team proved to work well together and achieve all of the goals we set for ourselves. Throughout the process, we were efficient, met deadlines on time and worked well together. Time management and distribution of tasks were not issues either. All members were content with the pace and the execution of the project, and wouldn’t have completed it differently. During the process of editing a Wikipedia page, this experience taught us that Web 2.0 is a malleable means of communication and information, as it can be interchanged, edited and updated. However, this also shows how Web 2.0 may equally be an unreliable source of information, if there is not enough credibility to support the evidence that is present on the web.

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