Haunted house
The Haunted Castle (also Gespensterschloss ) is a motif in art and literature and refers to a castle where it is haunted, so pass over sensual, most frightening things that ( first) not explainable. The Brothers Grimm describe it in their dictionary German as a schlosz in the haunted. Often the inexplicable actions are attributed to - or it is alluded to as a possible cause - that house spirits ( ghosts castle, castle ghosts) mischief in the lock or the lock is cursed. A motif that is mentioned frequently, there is the haunting at night ( witching hour ) and thunderstorms.
Description
During the German concept of Spukschlosses is limited to castles or large estate (often Victorian mansions ), expanded the English term of the haunted house, the importance of building all kinds Also in Germany comes before the term haunted house. Historical origin has the motif of Spukschlosses in romance, specifically in the black romance, where in the weird fiction (also haunted or horror stories ) of the era ghosts, knights and half-ruined castles and enchanted frequent motives were. Since about the 1990s Adopationen be summarized with the term mystery.
Fiction
- The Castle of Otranto, 1764 by Horace Walpole. Justification of weird fiction
- The Fall of the House of Usher, 1839 by Edgar Allan Poe. Numerous adaptations
- Melchior Jollers diary of 1863, on the 2003 film The Haunted House of Stans was filmed.
- The Canterville Ghost, 1887 by Oscar Wilde
- The Castle Ghost, Neumünster, 1930 by Kathe Papke
- Haunted Hill House in 1959 by Shirley Jackson
- The Haunted Manor, German 1980 Original: The Secret of Terror Castle
Movies
The haunted castle is a classic movie cliché.
- The haunted castle in the Spessart (1960 )
- The haunted castle in Via Veneto ( 1961)
- The Terror - The Innocents (1963 )
- Casper ( film ) ( 1995)
- The Haunting (1999)
- The WiXXer (2004), in reference to a number of Edgar Wallace films
- Hui Buh - The Castle Ghost (2006)
- The three? - The Secret of Terror Castle (2009)
- The Woman in Black (2012 )
- Oscar Wilde's story was a template for various film adaptations; please refer to The Canterville Ghost
Individual legends and attractions
- Many locks have legends of castle ghosts, such as the Deufringen castle. Like most English castles also owns Hampton Court Palace several ghosts that haunt around the building, according to legend.
- In some castles so-called ghost tours are staged. In particular, the English nobility poltergeists serve as a tourist attraction for the locks.
- After the motif of Spukschlosses the attraction Mystery Castle was designed in the leisure park Phantasialand.