falernian:

“I grew, and I did not see the rays of the sun. I did not breathe the air, but darkness was before me every day, and no one came to find me,” the spirit said to him.

-Fragments from an Egyptian ghost story found on a pottery shard, trans. Gaston Maspero. “I do not know whether the fashion among Egyptian ghosts was to render their language obscure at pleasure; this one does not seem to have attempted to make himself clear.”