Helen Creighton's 'Bluenose Ghosts'

Folklorist Helen Creighton of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, collected over 4,000 songs, stories and beliefs; her 1957 book 'Bluenose Ghosts' preserved the province's ghost lore, forerunners and buried-treasure tales.

1957 CE · 44.67, -63.58 · status: account

The account

Her fieldwork among fishing and farming families recorded beliefs that might otherwise have vanished, including death omens called 'forerunners' and phantom ships.

Connections in the atlas

• The Teazer Light of Mahone Bay
• Ghost ship of the Northumberland Strait

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Helen Creighton