The Supper Superstition. A Pathetic Ballad
[Thomas Hood]
Genre: | Ballad, Drollery |
Subjects: | Superstition, Zoology, Nutrition, Natural Economy |
A family is troubled over dinner by the appearance of what purports to be the ghost of their absent sailor son. The apparition warns them that the cod, oysters, and shrimps they are about to eat recently consumed his corpse. | |
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