Stuckholder; SF terms

[Victoria Neufeldt]

I remember this from Anne of Green Gables.

Victoria

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> Re "Things that go bump in the night." I have always been told
> that this is
> from an old Cornish litany; the whole verse is "From ghoulies and ghosties
> and long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night: Good Lord
> deliver us."
>
> Barbara Harris
>