... observing. He pointed out that "(...) Peter Quint and Miss Jessel are not "ghosts- at all, as we know the ghost, but goblins, elves, imps, demons as loosely constructed as those of the old trials of witchcraft; if not, more pleasingly, fairies of the legendary order, wooing their victims forth to see them dance under the moon."" This and other passages in the preface ... because it is the "ghost- of him but because Quint corresponds to the stereotype of a "sexual threatening- man. This is supported by the theory of physiognomic features and the relation to the character of a person. Thi...

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