Georges, Deutschlateinisches Wörterbuch, 1898). An uncanny place: locus suspectus; at an uncanny time of night: intempesta nocte.
And we should hardly call it uncanny when Pygmalion's beautiful statue comes to life.
And once more: what is the origin of the uncanny effect of silence, darkness and solitude?
This suggests that we should differentiate between the uncanny that we actually experience and the uncanny that we merely picture or read about.
In this case he accepts as well all the conditions operating to produce uncanny feelings in real life; and everything that would have an uncanny effect in reality has it in his story.