The Laird o' Coul's Ghost

A Scottish chapbook recounts a minister's repeated nocturnal encounters with the spectral laird of a local estate, who demands that the minister carry out promises to ensure justice for the laird's widow. The narrative relays uncanny physical phenomena, errant objects, and hurried rides between parish landmarks, framed by notes on manuscript provenance and later readers' interpretations. The text mixes folk-ghost incidents, conference-style exchanges, moral appeals about obligation and duty, and reflections on popular belief about the afterlife.