'The Haunting Of Alma Fielding' Is A Ghost Story — And A Tale Of Power And Fear
In 1938, a housewife went to the press complaining of a poltergeist in her home — and a ghost hunter investigated. Kate Summerscale's true tale is about women and power, anxiety, and choices.
The verb "to haunt" can mean "to practice habitually, busy oneself with, take part in" and "to frequent a place," but it isn't entirely clear when it began to apply to supernatural phenomena like spirits or ghosts.
has it that this use "perhaps was in Proto-Germanic, but if so it was lost or buried" and that it was "revived by Shakespeare's plays," appearing first in . adds that "In the 1500s, began to mean 'to have a disquieting or harmful effect on,' as in 'that problem may come
