"ghostology" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1872, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life:",
          "text": "[…] it seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.",
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          "ref": "1908, H. Addington Bruce, “The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham”, in Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters:",
          "text": "This, as all students of ghostology are aware, has frequently been the case; and it was precisely the case with the ghost seen by the famous Lord Brougham, […]",
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          "ref": "1957, William L. Fischer, Critical Notes on Evolution, page 30:",
          "text": "Experts in ghostology know exactly, where ghosts live, how they behave, how to deal with them, how to make them appear and disappear.",
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