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Beowulf - The Haunting of the Moor
Identifier
002815
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
Difficult to classify the experience, one possibility is an hallucination as the image is superimposed on the physical landscape.
A description of the experience
Beowulf
I have heard it said by subjects of mine
Who live in the country, counsellors in this hall
That they have seen such a pair
Of huge wayfarers haunting the moors
Otherworldly ones; and one of them
So far as they might make it out
Was in woman’s shape; but the shape of a man
Though twisted, trod also the tracks of exile
-save that he was more huge than any human being
The country people have called him from of old
By the name of Grendel; they know of no father for him
Nor whether there have been such beings before
Among the monster race