Massig explained about the spirits of the dead, and Niall shuddered; no one in his family had ever mentioned ghosts.

"Did I ever mention ghosts or passages to you, Wiggam?"

Do not mention ghosts.

For the one who mentioned ghosts, said the note.

How sternly his instructors at the schola had enjoined him, and all the acolytes, never to laugh when someone mentioned ghosts (he had anticipated the usual wide-eyed accounts of phantom footsteps and shrouded figures after Blood's mention of exorcism) or devils.

Death scenes are also associated, somewhat more explicitly, with the more tragic C minor Sonata; Charles Fisk, for example, mentions ghosts and a 'dance of death', in the outer movements.

He won't even allow us to mention ghosts.

He mentions witchcraft and ghosts.

At the age of 42, Wright converted from atheism to Christianity citing a profound religious experience with visions of the "Virgin Mary, her son, and His Father-not to mention various other spirits and ghosts over a period of several days" and claiming that prayers he made were answered.