A framework was sometimes made to fit the shoulders of a Ghoul which caused him to appear twelve feet high.

A skeleton wooden hand at the end of a stick served to greet terrified Negroes at midnight.

For safety every man carried a small whistle and a brace of pistols.
The trembling Negro who ran into a gathering of the Ku Klux on his return from a Loyal League meeting was informed that the white-robed figures he saw were the spirits of the Confederate dead killed at Chickamauga or Shiloh, now unable to rest in their graves because of the conduct of the Negroes.

He was told in a sepulchral voice of the necessity for his remaining more at home and taking a less active part in predatory excursions abroad.

In the middle of the night, a sleeping Negro might wake to find his house surrounded by a ghostly company, or to see several terrifying figures standing by his bedside.