When collecting folktales from Iceland, they encountered many tales about the ghost of children left by their mothers to die, an útburður, that came back to haunt their mothers. This is what the Icelandic ghost story Móðir mín í kví, kví or Dear Mother in a Pen, Pen is about.
Móðir mín í kví, kví means the Dear Mother in the Pen, Pen, and is one of Iceland’s most well known ghost stories, and also the base for the most horrifying lullaby children have gone to sleep with.
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The Folktale of Móðir mín í kví, kví
Once there was a young girl living on a farm with a want for life, dancing, singing and partying. She was unmarried and poor though and became pregnant with a man that had no plans of taking her as his wife. When she gave birth she decided to carry the child and put it outside to die. She carried the child out in her shawl or veil, sometimes retold it was only a rag.
After it was all over and done with, she attended a vikivaki celebration with singing and dancing a ritual circle dance during the church holidays, something the girl loved. She got the invitation, but had nothing to wear for the occasion. So she didn’t go and was sorry to be sitting at home.
Just before the dance, the girl was milking sheep with another woman and complained to her that she had nothing to wear. As soon as she said it out loud they heard a voice from under the wall of the pen:
Icelandic: “Móðir mín í kví, kví, kvíddu ekki því, því; ég skal ljá þér duluna mína að dansa í og dansa í.”
English: “Dear mother, in a pen, a pen, do not worry about it because, because I’ll lend you my rag to dance in and dance in. “
In Icelandic ghost stories, the ghost often repeat the last word in the sentence as in this short verse. She knew the message was to her, and she knew it was a ghost, talking about the single piece of clothing she had left the child out to die in. She was so shaken up after hearing her dead child reciting the words to her and she went insane for the rest of her life.
The útburður Ghost in Icelandic Folktales
In Icelandic as well as Scandinavian ghost stories, people sometimes encounter an útburður or an utburd. They were ghosts of children that were put outside to die. Either the child was unwanted because it was born outside of wedlock, or the parents didn’t have the means to raise it.
útburðr: The ghost in Móðir mín í kví, kví is an utburd, found in many variations in Scandinavian folklore. The Swedish call them Myling, and Utburd or útburðr in Norwegian and Icelandic. They can remind of the English Changeling creature.
When Scandinavians were pagans, this was a practice that wasn’t a crime. Even when the pagans on Iceland turned Christian, this was something that they continued to have as a permitted custom until the 11th century. In fact, to have the child would be punished with fines or even death.
The children turned into ghosts, sometimes just to torment their mother, sometimes because they couldn’t enter heaven because they weren’t baptized.
You could hear them crying, and they were believed to have been bad omens.
One of the most famous ghost stories in Korea is about the unfortunate Arang. Until she got revenge on her murderer, she kept haunting the entire town in search of the one who could help her find the truth.
Look at me, look at me, look at me As you look at a flower in the middle of winter, please look at me Although my sweetheart has arrived I cannot say a word of welcome Just opening my mouth without a word, stuffed my mouth with flap of my skirt Sound of flute played by a bachelor at the next door by the fence Sighing of a virgin at the well as she pumps water Are you better than others? Am I better than you? Who is better than whom? The best one is “gu-ri-bak-tong ji-jun” (one with power and money) — Variation of Miryang Arirang folk song
Arang (아랑) and her tragic story is one of the most well known ghost stories in Korea. She was the daughter of a magistrate (busa) working for the government in Miryang, southeast in Korea.
The legend of Arang is one of the more important stories about wongwi ( 원귀 ), spirits seeking justice by revenge. This story is from the Joseon Dynasty, sometime between 1400 to 1900 and it is said she lived in the mid 1500s.
The Death of Arang
According to the legend Arangs real name was Yun Dong-ok ( 윤동옥 /尹東玉) and had lost her mother when she was very young and basically brought up by a nanny. But her nanny was mean and hated her and wanted her punished. The nanny colluded with the servant Baekga to take her at night and rape her. But Arang resisted and he ended up stabbing her to death. Her body was taken into the woods and buried for no one to know.
In some versions, Arang is said to have gone out to have looked at the moon when a man approached her which she turned down, leading to him killing her. There are also the versions where a low ranking officer bribed her nanny to bring her to him.
Her father, the magistrate, was distraught as they all thought that she had eloped and ran off with a stranger. In shame he resigned from his position and the whole family took a backseat.
The Legend of Arang: One of the more famous ghost stories is the story about Arang and her murder. She came back from beyond to uncover the truth of what really happened the night she died.
The Revenge
But this wasn’t the last they heard of her. Whenever a new magistrate was appointed in Miryang, the spirit of Arang appeared before him and asked for his help to restore her honor and avenge her.
Problem was that the appointed magistrates were so afraid of her that they all resigned and in the end, no one wanted to take the position out of fear for the ghost haunting the place. In some versions of the legend, they died after not helping her. But that all changed when the man named Yi Sang-sa was appointed to the position.
He saw past the scary ghost and promised the spirit of Arang to avenge her so she could have justice. In some version she just tells the name of the killer, in some version, she comes back as a butterfly to mark the murderer.
In any case the murderer is found out and the young magistrate arrested Baekga and had him executed. After this, her spirit was able to move on and she no longer haunted the town.
The Aranggak Shrine
To this day there is a shrine in honor of Arang’s spirit where she is venerated and is called the Aranggak Shrine. Even the popular folk song Arirang has its own local version which is said to may or may not be about the legend of Arang.
The Shrine of Arang: In Miryang they have built a shrine to venerate her spirit. Source/Koreabyme
There are also movies and TV series inspired by the legend, like the 2006 movie, Arang and the 2012 drama series Arang and the Magistrate.
“Arang and the Magistrate” is a Korean drama that combines elements of historical romance, supernatural intrigue, and mystery. Set in the Joseon period, the story revolves around the ghostly character of Arang, who is determined to uncover the truth behind her own death. She teams up with the righteous and pragmatic Magistrate Eun Oh, who can see spirits, creating an unusual partnership. As they delve into the mysteries of Arang’s past and the corruption within the government, the drama weaves a compelling narrative filled with suspense, romance, and supernatural elements.
No matter what the meaning behind the words of the song is, her shrine is solely dedicated to her and standing on a cliff in Miryang on the Yeongnamnu pavilion, one of the important cultural treasures of Miryang, facing the Miryang River.
The Legend of Arang
In the end, the tale of Arang serves as a reminder of the power of justice and the perseverance of the human spirit, even beyond death. Through her haunting, Arang sought the truth and found an ally in the courageous magistrate, Yi Sang-sa, who helped her reveal the identity of her murderer and bring him to justice. With her revenge fulfilled, Arang’s spirit was able to find peace and move on.
As the wind whispers through the trees surrounding the Aranggak Shrine, it carries the echoes of Arang’s tale, reminding us of the importance of seeking truth, fighting for justice, and never forgetting the stories of those who went before us.
What does the Appalachian range, the Scottish Highland, the Scandinavian mountains and Nick Cave have in common? Filled of the sub genre murder ballads. A strange phenomenon we don’t hear much in songs anymore. Often a man killing his girlfriend or a mother killing her children, these bone chilling songs have lasted centuries, growing and changing according to the time and place. But one thing remains, someone is murdered.
Child Owlet
Most likely Scottish. This creepy and bloody tale of a woman’s desire turned to a crime is bone chilling when you read behind the jolly tune.
Lyric
Lady Erskine sits intae her bower, a-sowing a silken seam, A bonny shirt for Child Owlet as he goes out and in His face was fair, long was his hair, she’s called him to come near “Oh, you must cuckold Lord Ronald for all his lands and gear.”
“Oh, lady, hold your tongue for shame for such should ne’er be done. How can I cuckold Lord Ronald and me his sister’s son?” Then she’s ta’en out a small penknife that lay beside her head She’s pricked herself below her breast which made her body bleed.
Lord Ronald’s come into her bower where she did make her moan. “Oh, what is all this blood,” he said, “That shines on your breast bone?” “Young Child Owlet, your sister’s son, is new gone from my bower. If I’d not been a good woman I’d have been Child Owlet’s whore.”
Then he has taken Child Owlet, thrown him in prison strong And all his men a council held to judge Child Owlet’s wrong Some said, Child Owlet he should hang, some said that he should burn, Some said they would he Child Owlet between wild horses torn.
“Ten horses in my stable stand, can run right speedily. It’s you must to my stable go and take out four for me.” They tied a horse unto each foot and one unto each hand. They’ve sent them out o’er Elkin Moor as fast as they could run.
There was no stone on Elkin Moor, no broom nor bonny whin But’s dripping with Child Owlet’s blood and pieces of his skin. There was no grass on Elkin Moor, no broom nor bonny rush But’s dripping with Child Owlet’s blood and pieces of his flesh.
Down in the Willow Garden
You click on an Everly Brother’s song and expect it to be a sugar sweet song about eternal love. Little did you know you were getting a well known bloody murder-ballad about a guy murdering his girlfriend.
Lyric
Down in the Willow garden Where me and my love did meet As we sat a-courtin’ My love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of Burgundy wine My love she did not know So I poisoned that dear little girl On the banks below
I drew a sabre through her It was a bloody knife I threw her in the river Which was a dreadful sign My father often told me That money would set me free If I would murder that dear little girl Whose name was Rose Connolly
My father sits at his cabin door Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes For his only son soon shall walk To yonder scaffold high My race is run, beneath the sun The scaffold now waits for me For I did murder that dear little girl Whose name was Rose Connelly
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The Maid and the Palmer
I don’t know what the deal is with mixing happy folk tunes with the grimmest of lyrics. But it does give it an extra dimension of creepiness.
Lyric
HE maid shee went to the well to washe, Refrain: Lillumwham, lillumwham! The mayd shee went to the well to washe, Refrain: Whatt then? what then? The maid shee went to the well to washe, Dew fell of her lilly white fleshe. Refrain: Grandam boy, grandam boy, heye! Leg a derry, leg a merry, mett, mer, whoope, whir! Driuance, larumben, grandam boy, heye! While shee washte and while shee ronge, While shee hangd o the hazle wand. There came an old palmer by the way, Sais, ‘God speed thee well, thou faire maid!’ ‘Hast either cupp or can, To giue an old palmer drinke therin?’ Sayes, ‘I have neither cupp nor cann, To giue an old palmer drinke therin.’ ‘But an thy lemman came from Roome, Cupps and canns thou wold find soone.’ She sware by God & good St. John, Lemman had shee neuer none. Sais, ‘Peace, faire mayd, you are forsworne! Nine children you haue borne. ‘Three were buryed vnder thy bed’s head, Other three vnder thy brewing leade. ‘Other three on yon play greene; Count, maid, and there be 9.’ ‘But I hope you are the good old man That all the world beleeues vpon. ‘Old palmer, I pray thee, Pennaunce that thou wilt giue to me.’ ‘Penance I can giue thee none, But 7 yeere to be a stepping-stone. ‘Other seaven a clapper in a bell, Other 7 to lead an ape in hell. ‘When thou hast thy penance done, Then thoust come a mayden home.’
‘SEVEN years ye shall be a stone, Refrain: . . . . . For many a poor palmer to rest him upon. Refrain: And you the fair maiden of Gowden-gane ‘Seven years ye’ll be porter of hell, And then I’ll take you to mysell.’ * * * * * ‘Weel may I be a’ the other three, But porter of hell I never will be.’
Long Lankin
I mean. If you can listen to the Wainwright sister’s version of this murder ballad, I don’t know what will affect you.
Lyric
Said the Lord unto his Lady as he rode over the moss “Beware of Long Lankin that lives amongst the gorse Beware the moss, beware the moor, beware of Long Lankin Be sure the doors are bolted well Lest Lankin should creep in” Said the Lord unto his Lady as he rode away “Beware of Long Lankin that lives amongst the hay Beware the moss, beware the moor, beware of Long Lankin Be sure the doors are bolted well Lest Lankin should creep in” “Where’s the master of the house?”, says Long Lankin “He’s ‘way to London”, says the nurse to him “Where’s the lady of the house?”, says Long Lankin “She’s up in her chamber”, says the nurse to him “Where’s the baby of the house?”, says Long Lankin “He’s asleep in the cradle”, says the nurse to him “We will pinch him, we will prick him We will stab him with a pin And the nurse shall hold the basin For the blood all to run in”So they pinched him and they pricked him Then they stabbed him with a pin And the false nurse held the basin For the blood all to run in”Lady, come down the stairs, ” says Long Lankin “How can I see in the dark?”, she says unto him “You have silver mantles”, says Long Lankin “Lady, come down the stairs by the light of them” Down the stairs the lady came, thinking no harm Lankin, he stood ready to catch her in his arms There was blood all in the kitchen There was blood all in the hall There was blood all in the parlor Where my lady she did fall Now Long Lankin shall be hanged From the gallows, oh, so high And the false nurse shall be burned In the fire close by Said the Lord unto his Lady as he rode over the moss “Beware of Long Lankin that lives amongst the gorse Beware the moss, beware the moor, beware of Long Lankin Make sure the doors are bolted well Lest Lankin should creep in”
Where the Wild Roses Grow
Most of the songs on this list is older ballads. But murder ballads is not a died out genre. The king of creepy songs, Nick Cave, wrote Where the wild roses grows in 1996. He said in an interview: “Where The Wild Roses Grow” was written very much with Kylie in mind. I’d wanted to write a song for Kylie for many years. I had a quiet obsession with her for about six years. I wrote several songs for her, none of which I felt was appropriate to give her. It was only when I wrote this song, which is a dialogue between a killer and his victim, that I thought finally I’d written the right song for Kylie to sing. I sent the song to her and she replied the next day.”
They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it, I do not know For my name was Elisa Day
From the first day I saw her, I knew she was the one She stared in my eyes and smiled For her lips were the colour of the roses That grew down the river, all bloody and wild
When he knocked on my door and entered the room My trembling subsided in his sure embrace He would be my first man, and with a careful hand He wiped at the tears that ran down my face
They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it, I do not know For my name was Elisa Day
On the second day, I brought her a flower She was more beautiful than any woman I’ve seen I said, “Do you know where the wild roses grow So sweet and scarlet and free?”
On the second day, he came with a single red rose He said, “Give me your loss and your sorrow” I nodded my head as I lay on the bed If I show you the roses, will you follow?
They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it, I do not know For my name was Elisa Day
On the third day, he took me to the river He showed me the roses and we kissed And the last thing I heard was a muttered word As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist
On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow She lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief And I kissed her goodbye, said, “All beauty must die” And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth
They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it, I do not know For my name was Elisa Day My name was Elisa Day For my name was Elisa Day
In honor of the new spin-off series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020), we took a nostalgic look back to the awesome Showtime series that started it all. RIP Original series, you were cancelled all too soon.
Penny Dreadful is a British-American horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan. It ran for three seasons from 2014-2016.
Iconic Vanessa Ives (Eva Green). An original character and also some of the most well crafted ones.
Penny Dreadful is an old term used during the nineteenth century to refer to cheap popular serial literature. Sort of like pulp fiction. It was also called penny blood, penny awful, or penny horrible. It means a story published in weekly parts, with the cost of one (old) penny. The main plot of these stories were typically sensational, focusing on the adventures of detectives, criminals, or supernatural entities.
This is exactly what Penny Dreadful was, and what it payed homage to. So we found some old stuff the series borrowed or was inspired by. And there is A LOT. So get your cigarette on a stick and let’s go on some vampiric monster hunt with out pals.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Harry Treadaway played Victor Frankenstein, an arrogant, reclusive young doctor whose ambition and research involve transcending the barrier between life and death. In this show, Dr. Victor Frankenstein likes to quote the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley’s second wife was Mary Shelley.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine’s editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde’s knowledge. It is Wilde’s only novel.
In the series he was played by Reeve Carney. A charismatic man who is ageless and immortal. And this Dorian Gray had a great, but utterly confusing story line. Where his purpose in the show was to throw great balls and parties and have sex with absolutely every character.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein is tempted by his monster’s proposal to create a female creature so that the monster can have a wife: “Shall each man,” cried he, “find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?”
In Penny Dreadful, the bride of Frankenstein is Brona Croft (portrayed by Billie Piper), an Irish immigrant with a dark past who dies of tuberculosis at the end of Season 1. In season 2, she is brought back to life with no memory after Frankenstein’s monster demands a bride and given the new name “Lily Frankenstein” by Victor. That last scene of her speech will haunt television forever.
Often called John Clare. He was a labour poet in the mid 1800’s England. But if it is a reference to the creature is unclear. What is clear though is that the creature often is called Caliban as well, a character from Shakespear’s The tempes. Half human, half monster. In some traditions he is depicted as a wild man, or a deformed man, or a beast man, or sometimes a mix of fish and man, a dwarf or even a tortoise. Another connection from the creature to penny dreadful is Dorian Gray. In the preface of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde muses: “The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.”
In the series he was played with Rory Kinnear, and had long storylines without many of the characters, alone.
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Dracula was a big influence from the start. From Mina being taken by him, the chase after Dracula and several character that appears in the series. Van Helsing included. But the series managed to make a twist of it all, and the influence of Dracula is almost as if just a eerily familiar setting and feeling of the series. He did however show up in series three in the flesh. Christian Camargo as Dracula, the brother of Lucifer who fell to Earth to feed on the blood of the living as the first vampire. In London, he takes the guise of kindly zoologist Alexander Sweet to captivate Vanessa.
In season 3 of TV series Penny Dreadful, Patti LuPone portrays Dr. Florence Seward, a female version of the character. It is originally a character from Dracula, a doctor in the insane asylum, He calls in his mentor, Abraham Van Helsing, to help him with her illness, and he helps Seward to realize that Lucy has been bitten by a vampire and is doomed to become one herself. He was in love with her and proposed to her, but was rejected. After she is officially destroyed and her soul can go to heaven, Seward is determined to destroy Dracula.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothicnovella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll (Shazad Latif) as a former classmate of Dr. Frankenstein’s.
Varney the vampire
Abraham Van Helsing gives a copy of Varney the Vampire to Victor Frankenstein, explaining that the story is more truth than fiction and that the mysterious creature the series’ characters are pursuing is a vampire.
Justine
Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue is a 1791 novel by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade. Justine is set just before the French Revolution in France and tells the story of a young girl who goes under the name of Thérèse. Her story is recounted to Madame de Lorsagne while defending herself for her crimes, en route to punishment and death.
In Penny Dreadful she is the a homeless, brutalized young prostitute who becomes an acolyte to Lily played by Jessica Barden. In an interview with John Logan from the show, he also said the relationship between Justine and Lily was inspired by th Novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
Larry Talbot was the main character in the movie series the Wolfman from 1941 and onward. There are sequels, reboots and several other medias tied into this franchise. He has his own interaction with all the Penny Dreadful characters from Dracula, Frankenstein and so on in his own franchise as well.
In the TV series Penny Dreadful, Ethan Chandler’s real name is revealed to be Ethan Lawrence Talbot, and he suffers from the curse of lycanthropy. This version of the character is played by Josh Hartnett.
Hecate
Hecate Poole is the witch played by Sarah Greene and is Evelyn Pool’s eldest daughter. She is the witch who pursues Ethan Chandler in seasons two and three. She shares her name with the ancient Greek goddess of witchcraft and the moon. Like Ethan’s relationship with the moon and her witchcraft ability as a Nightcomer witch.
The unquiet grave
“The Unquiet Grave” is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace. It is thought to date from 1400. It is heard in the mansion of the Nightcomer witches.
There are countless, countless, COUNTLESS ballads, songs, poems and plays about ghosts and hauntings throughout history. Here are a collection of some songs about ghosts that have a connection or is about an actual ghost legend or a haunting.
Murder of Maria Marten (1971) by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band
This modern folk ballad is actually inspired by the real Red Barn Murder. Maria Marten supposed eloped with her lover, William Corder in 1827, in Polstead, county Suffolk, England. He wrote back to her family, claiming they were fine. But then, Maria started appearing to her stepmother in her dreams. The ghost of Maria told she was dead and were they would find her.
They found her body in the barn and Corder was found and executed. Corder’s skeleton was reassembled, exhibited, and used as a teaching aid in the West Suffolk Hospital. The skeleton was put on display in the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where it hung beside that of Jonathan Wild until 2004. The murder inspired plays, songs and movies, one of them sung by Shirley Collins, with her voice echoing the ye’ old England ballads.
Read more about Maria Marten and The Red Barn Murder:
The murder of Maria Marten, a case called The Red Barn Murder got a lot of media coverage in England because of the strange circumstances. The murder was allegedly solved by the appearance of the ghost of the victim, haunting people’s dreams.
Few voices are as haunting than Alison Krauss. And the song, Jacob’s dream, even more so because of its backstory of The Lost Children of the Alleghenies. It’s a well known folk story from the Appalachia region of the United States. George and Joseph Cox, then aged seven and five , disappeared from their home in Pavia on April 24, 1856.
The legend tells that the night after the disappearance a local farmer, Jacob Dibert dreamt he walked a path through the woods past a dead deer, a child’s shoe and a fallen birch tree and eventually to a copse of birch trees in a small ravine. Here he found the bodies of the Cox boys. The dream recurred on the two following nights. He and his brother in law decided to make a search, culminating in the discovery of the bodies just as the dream had described – under birch trees in a small ravine reached along a track with a dead deer, a child’s shoe and a fallen birch.
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The Ride (1983) by David Allan Coe
The writer, Gary Gentry swears the ghost of Hank Williams appeared to him in his darkened house one night. Gentry says he tried to summon Williams for a little inspiration. And he supposedly came. The ballad tells the story of a hitchhiker’s meeting with the ghost of Hank Williams, Sr. in a ride from to Nashville, Tennessee. The mysterious driver, “dressed like 1950, half drunk and hollow-eyed” and driving an “antique Cadillac” (referring to the baby blue 1952 Cadillac convertible that Williams died in), questions the narrator whether he has the musical talent and dedication to become a star in the country music industry.
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Elizabeth (2010) by Ghost
The Swedish occult rock band could have had many listings on this particular list of songs about ghosts. Especially since they have dedicated their carrier to warn about the coming of the devil and other satanical topics. The song “Elizabeth” is about Elizabeth Báthory, not exactly a ghost, but who is remembered as one of the deadliest women and well… a vampire. In 2010, the band produced a three-track demo and the vinyl-only single “Elizabeth”, before releasing their first studio album, Opus Eponymous, on October 18, 2010.
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Angels (1997) by Robbie Williams
Yes, that is correct, a songs about ghosts. The romantic breakout hit of former Take That singer and solo singer, Angels, was actually inspired by paranormal occurrences that Robbie Williams experienced himself as young. “There hasn’t been a moment of my life when I haven’t been aware of the presence of something unseen,” he said. “The very first song I wrote was Angels and it’s about actual angels.”
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Here is our list of songs about ghosts and hauntings. Do you know of anyone else? Feel free to notify us about it.
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