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Wizard Clip
The legend of the Wizard Clip is a popular ghost story about an incident said to have occurred in Middleway, West Virginia in the 1790s. The story of the Wizard Clip is part of the oral history of the area, and was called by Rev. Alfred E. Smith, editor-in-chief of the ''Catholic Review'' and secretary to Cardinal Gibbons, "The truest ghost story ever told." Legend The Clip According to the story, around 1794, a traveling stranger boarded at the house of a former Pennsylvanian named Adam Livingston, where he took ill, and asked Livingston to bring a Catholic priest. The area was mostly devoid of Catholics and no priest could be found, and the Lutheran Livingston was not enthusiastic about finding one. Ultimately, the stranger died of his illness and was buried nearby without the benefit of a Catholic service. After the stranger died, it is said that candles would not stay lit in the room where his corpse was, sounds of horses galloping and crockery breaking were heard, and burn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass (liturgy)
Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term ''Mass'' is commonly used in the Catholic Church, in the Western Rite Orthodox, in Old Catholic, and in Independent Catholic churches. The term is used in some Lutheran churches, as well as in some Anglican churches. The term is also used, on rare occasion, by other Protestant churches. Other Christian denominations may employ terms such as '' Divine Service'' or ''worship service'' (and often just "service"), rather than the word ''Mass''. For the celebration of the Eucharist in Eastern Christianity, including Eastern Catholic Churches, other terms such as ''Divine Liturgy'', '' Holy Qurbana'', ''Holy Qurobo'' and ''Badarak'' (or ''Patarag'') are typically used instead. Etymology The English noun ''mass'' is derived from the Middle Latin . The Latin word was adopted in Old English as (via a Vulgar Latin form ), and was sometimes glossed as ''sendnes'' (i.e. 'a sending, dismiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson County, West Virginia
Jefferson County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. It is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 57,701. Its county seat is Charles Town. The county was founded in 1801, and today is part of the Washington metropolitan area. History Formation Jefferson County was established oOctober 26, 1801from Berkeley County because the citizens of southeastern Berkeley County felt they had to travel too far to the county seat of Martinsburg. Charles Washington, the founder of Charles Town and brother to George Washington petitioned for a new county to be formed. It was named for Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States. Virginia previously had a Jefferson County, which is now part of Kentucky. Accordingly, in the State records of Virginia, there are listings for Jefferson County from 1780 to 1792 and Jefferson County from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ghosts
The following is a list of ghosts: African folklore * Adze, Ewe vampiric being * Amadlozi, Nguni spiritual figures * Asanbosam, Akan vampire * Egbere, Yoruban malevolent spirit * Kishi, Angolan two-faced demon * Madam Koi Koi, Nigerian ghost * Mbwiri, Central African demon * Obambo, Central African supernatural being * Obayifo, Ashanti vampire * Obia, West African monster * Ogbanje, Igbo evil spirit * Tikoloshe, spirit from Zulu cultures * Zar, Ethiopian demon Asian folklore East Asia China * Hungry ghost * Mogwai * Vengeful ghost * Wangliang * Yaoguai Korea * Korean virgin ghost * Egg ghost Japan * Ayakashi * Chōchin-obake * Funayūrei * Gashadokuro * Goryō * Hitodama * Ikiryō * Inugami * Kuchisake-onna * Mononoke * Mujina * Noppera-bō * Nure-onna * Obake * Ochimusha * Onryō * Raijū * Rokurokubi * Shikigami * Shinigami * Shirime * Shiryō * Tsukumogami * Ubume * Umibōzu * Yōkai * Yōsei * Yuki-onna * Yūrei * Zashiki-warashi South Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Wheeling–Charleston
The Diocese of Wheeling–Charleston ( la, Dioecesis Vhelingensis–Carolopolitanus) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church comprising the U.S. state of West Virginia. The Ordinary is the Most. Rev. Mark E. Brennan. The diocese maintains two cathedrals: the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Wheeling, West Virginia, and the Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Charleston, West Virginia. The Diocese of Wheeling–Charleston is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore. History In the 1840s, Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan of the Diocese of Richmond was concerned that his diocese encompassed too vast a land area to be pastorally administered. As such, he requested that the diocese be divided, with the Allegheny mountains as a natural boundary. Thus, Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Wheeling, taking the territory of Virginia west of the Pennsylvania border and west of the Allegheny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opequon Creek
Opequon Creek is an approximately 35 mile U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary stream of the Potomac River. It flows into the Potomac northeast of Martinsburg, West Virginia, Martinsburg in Berkeley County, West Virginia, Berkeley County, West Virginia, and its source lies northwest of the community of Opequon, Virginia, Opequon at the foot of Great North Mountain in Frederick County, Virginia, Frederick County, Virginia. The Opequon forms part of the boundary between Frederick and Clarke County, Virginia, Clarke counties in Virginia and also partially forms the boundary between Berkeley and Jefferson County, West Virginia, Jefferson counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, Eastern Panhandle. Opequon is a name derived from an unidentified local Native American language. Tributaries Streams are listed from south (headwaters) to the north (mouth). *Stribling Run *H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purgatory
Purgatory (, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is, according to the belief of some Christian denominations (mostly Catholic), an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification. The process of purgatory is the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. Tradition, by reference to certain texts of scripture, sees the process as involving a cleansing fire. Some forms of Western Christianity, particularly within Protestantism, deny its existence. Other strands of Western Christianity see purgatory as a place, perhaps filled with fire. Some concepts of Gehenna in Judaism resemble those of purgatory. The word "purgatory" has come to refer to a wide range of historical and modern conceptions of postmortem suffering short of everlasting damnation. English-speakers also use the word in a non-specific sense to mean any place or condition of suffering or torment, especially one that is tempor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carroll (archbishop Of Baltimore)
John Carroll (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States. He served as the ordinary of the first diocese and later Archdiocese of Baltimore, in Maryland, which at first encompassed all of the United States and later after division as the eastern half of the new nation. Carroll is also known as the founder of Georgetown University (the oldest Catholic college / university in the United States), and of St. John the Evangelist Parish of Rock Creek (now Forest Glen), the first secular parish in the country. Early life and education John Carroll was born on January 8, 1735, in Upper Marlborough, Maryland (as it was then spelled), to Daniel Carroll I and Eleanor (Darnall) Carroll at the large plantation which Eleanor had inherited from her family. He was of Irish ancestry. He spent his early years at the family home, sited on thousands of acres near Marlboro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conewago Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Conewago Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,875 at the 2020 census. Geography Conewago Township is located along the eastern edge of Adams County, adjacent to the borough of Hanover in neighboring York County. Conewago Township completely surrounds the borough of McSherrystown. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.62%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 5,709 people, 2,128 households, and 1,655 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 2,189 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 97.92% White, 0.53% African American, 0.04% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.77% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.58% of the population. There were 2,128 households, out of which 36.7% had children under the age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleway, West Virginia
Middleway is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, in the lower Shenandoah Valley. As of the 2010 census, its population was 441. History On January 15, 1786, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act establishing the town of Smithfield on land owned by John Smith II and William Smith. A post office was established in 1806; and since there was another town called Smithfield in the state, a different name was needed to avoid confusion. Because Smithfield had become a center of commerce between several other towns, the post office became known as "Middleway." Middleway remains a small village and retains many of its historic buildings. The Middleway Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The area where the town grew was first visited by John Smith I and his sons John Smith II and Rees Smith in 1729. By 1734 they had established a grist mill and a hemp mill. In the 1790s, in an effort to incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian nobility, Russian aristocrat and Catholic Church, Catholic priest known as The Apostle of the Alleghenies and also in the United States as Prince Galitzin. He was a member of the House of Golitsyn. Since 2005, he has been under consideration for canonization by the Catholic Church. His current title is Servant of God, granted by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. Early life Gallitzin was born into nobility on December 22, 1770 at The Hague. His father, Prince Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin, Dimitri Alexeievich, the Imperial Russia, Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, was an intimate friend of Voltaire and a follower of Diderot. His mother was the Prussian Countess Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin, Adelheid Amalie von Schmettau, the daughter of Field Marshall Samuel von Schmettau. When Prince Demitri was about two years old, the Empress Catherine the Great visited The Hague, and as a sign of special favo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Water
Holy water is water that has been blessed by a member of the clergy or a religious figure, or derived from a well or spring considered holy. The use for cleansing prior to a baptism and spiritual cleansing is common in several religions, from Christianity to Sikhism. The use of holy water as a sacramental for protection against evil is common among Lutherans, Anglicans, Roman Catholics, and Holy water in Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christians. In Christianity In Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and some other Christian Church, churches, holy water is water that has been sanctified by a priest for the purpose of baptism, for the Blessing#Christianity , blessing of persons, places, and objects, or as a means of repelling evil. History The Apostolic Constitutions, whose texts date to about the year 400 AD, attribute the precept of using holy water to the Apostle Matthew. It is plausible that the earliest Christians may have used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
