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  • Abbot, ghost of, in Abbey of Clare, 326
  • Abbotsford, 434-436
  • Abipones, superstitions of, 89, 336, 340
  • Accidents, ghosts appear at scene of, 168
  • African beliefs, 30, 90-91, 182, 346
  • Agnes’, St., Fast, 385
  • Alaska belief, 10
  • Albans, St., Duchess of, 100
  • Aleutian islanders, 341
  • Algonquin Indians, 40, 309, 339
  • Allanbank, ghost at, 312
  • Allhallow Eve, 118
  • Althorp, apparition seen at, 319
  • American Indian beliefs, 6, 23, 37, 89, 143, 217, 343, 414, 438
  • Ancestor worship, 102
  • Andaman islanders, 110
  • Andrew’s Eve, St., 388
  • Angel of death, 273
  • Angola, belief in, 182
  • Animal ghosts, 102-126
  • Arabian belief, 360
  • Ash-ridlin, 386
  • Ashley Hall, Cheshire, 326
  • Assiniboins, belief of, 66
  • Astwood Castle, 319
  • Australian beliefs,
  • Churton Hall, 321
  • Clegg Hall boggart, 199, 322
  • Clock superstition, 227
  • Cloud, soul as white, 4
  • Cobal, ghost so called, 270
  • Cock-crow, 354-356
  • Cocks’ feathers hinder exit of soul, 12
  • Cold lad, 313
  • Colt, ghost as a, 103
  • Combermere Abbey, 322
  • Compacts between living and dead, 245-256
  • Copeland, lady of, 133
  • Corby Castle, ghost at, 311
  • Cornish beliefs, 103, 108, 120, 128, 201, 207, 208, 262, 294, 300, 421
  • —— legend of King Arthur, 94
  • Cornwolf, 396
  • Corpse candle, 139-140
  • Cortachy Castle haunted, 311, 417
  • Courting a ghost, 384
  • Coved saloon at Combermere Abbey, 322
  • Cows, ghosts in form of, 109
  • Craighouse, 325
  • Creslow Manor House, 313
  • Criminals, ghosts of, 69
  • Crook Hall haunted, 327
  • Cross, check against evil spirits, 358, 361
  • Cross-roads, ghosts at, 61, 383
  • Cruikshank, George, 429
  • Cullaby Castle, 320
  • Cumberland, 76, 78, 266, 366
  • Cumnor Hall, 77, 320
  • Cutty Soams, 264
  • Cwn y Wybe, 118
  • Cyprus, 183
  • Kaffir beliefs, 2, 336
  • Kaneka superstition, 230-231
  • Karens, beliefs of, 45, 67, 160, 309
  • Kendal, Duchess of, 100
  • Kilncote church porch, 332
  • Kinchardines, 220
  • Kirk-grim, 125
  • Knauff-Kriegen, 270
  • Knockers, 262
  • Lady of Copeland, 133
  • —— of Death, 273
  • —— of the Golden Casket, 129
  • —— of the Lantern, 128
  • —— Winter’s walk, 156
  • Lamb buried under altar, 126
  • —— church, 126
  • Lambton, Madame, 327
  • Lancashire, 4-5, 14, 74-75, 91-92, 112, 198, 214, 376
  • Lavington, East, parsonage, 329
  • Lightfoot, Lady, 77
  • Lights, phantom, 127-143
  • Lily, soul as, 391-392
  • Lincolnshire, 129
  • Lion, 226
  • Little Knocker’s Night, 438
  • Lledrith, 370
  • Locks unfastened at death, 5, 7
  • Lowther Hall haunted, 432
  • Ly-erg, 220
  • Lyttelton, Lord, 100
  • Madagascar, beliefs in, 23, 346
  • Madge Figg’s chair, 129
  • Madness causes soul to wander, 61
  • Magic circle, 167
  • Malay belief, 3
  • Malevolent spirits, 70
  • Manes worship, 63
  • Manx fishermen, 93
  • Maori belief, 336
  • Mark’s, St., Eve, 332, 386
  • Martyrs, ghosts of, 86
  • Mary Way, spectre so called, < tm.html#Page_327" class="pginternal">327
  • Zambesi superstition, 341
  • Zulus, beliefs of, 30, 40

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FOOTNOTES

[1] xxiii. 100; Keary’s Outlines of Primitive Belief, p. 284.

[2] The Three Principles, chap. xix. ‘Of the Going Forth of the Soul.’

[3] Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 252.

[4] Primitive Culture, 1873, i. p. 457.

[5] 1st S. ii. p. 51.

[6] Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 257.

[7] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 433; Brinton’s Myths of the New World, p. 253.

[8] Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore, 1867, p. 210.

[9] 1st S. i. p. 315.

[10] Cf. ‘Nexosque resolveret artus,’ Virgil on the death of Dido. Æneid iv. 695.

[11] See Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 302, and Notes and Queries, 1st S. iv. p. 350.

[12] Ibid. i. p. 467.

[13] 1st S. iii. p. 84.

[14] Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore, pp. 127-128.

[15] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 43.

[16] In a note to Redgauntlet, Letter xi.

[17] Folk-lore Record, i. pp. 59-60.

[18] Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

[19] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 60-61.

[20] See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 145.

[21] Iliad, ii. 852.

[22] Illustrations of Shakspeare, 1839, pp. 324-326.

[23] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 40.

[24] Tylor’s Anthropology, 1881, p. 343.

[25] See further instances in Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. pp. 440, 441.

[26] Fiji and the Fijians, i. p. 242.

[27] See Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, 1870, p. 141.

[28] Werewolves, p. 29.

[29] See Chapter on Second Sight.

[30] See Tylor’s Anthropology, p. 345; and Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, p. 141; and H. Spencer’s Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 777.

[31] Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 174.

[32] De Anima, p. 9; see Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 456.

[33] Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 174.

[34] See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 457.

[35] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 20.

[36] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 456.

[37] Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 253.

[38] See Tylor’s Anthropology, 1881, p. 344.

[39] Nineteenth Century, July 1885, pp. 143-144, ‘Transylvanian Superstitions,’ by Madame Emily de Laszowska Gerard.

[40] Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 117.

[41] Myths and Dreams, 1885, p. 184.

[42] Myths and Myth-makers, 1873, p. 225.

[43] See Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England, p. 373.

[44] Fasti, v. 457.

[45] Primitive Superstitions, p. 195.

[46] The Origin of Civilisation, and the Primitive Condition of Man, 1870, p. 140; see Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 263.

[47] Brinton’s Myths of the New World, 1868, p. 257.

[48] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, 1881, p. 193.

[49] See Lecky’s Rationalism in Europe, 1870, i. p. 340; cf. Maury’s LÉgendes Pieuses, p. 124.

[50] Primitive Culture, i. p. 455.

[51] See Andrew Lang’s Myth, Ritual, Religion, i. p. 108.

[52] Odyssey, xxiv.

[53] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 451.

[54] Night Side of Nature.

[55] Yardley’s Supernatural in Fiction, p. 93.

[56] Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 257.

[57] Primitive Culture, ii. p. 29; Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare, pp. 450, 451.

[58] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 126, note.

[59] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 166.

[60] See Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, p. 68.

[61] Edited by C. S. Burne.

[62] Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, 1886, Essays in the Study of Folk-songs, p. 8.

[63] Study of Folk-songs, p. 2.

[64] Study of Folk-songs, p. 8.

[65] Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 121.

[66] Study of Folk-songs, p. 21.

[67] Folk-lore Record, 1879, iii. pp. 111, 112.

[68] Folk-lore Record, 1879, iii. pp. 111, 112.

[69] Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 119.

[70] Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, p. 69.

[71] Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation, p. 134.

[72] Primitive Culture, ii. p. 120.

[73] The Chinese: J. F. Davis, 1836, ii. pp. 139, 140.

[74] Folk-lore of China, p. 73.

[75] See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 304.

[76] Primitive Culture, ii. p. 28.

[77] See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, 1880, pp. 19, 20.

[78] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii, p. 19.

[79] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. pp. 94, 95.

[80] Griffis, The Mikado’s Kingdom.

[81] Denny’s Folk-lore of China; see Bassett’s Legends and Superstitions of the Sea, p. 296.

[82] Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, 1881, p. 68.

[83] Haunted Homes of England, 1881, p. 286.

[84] Haunted Homes of England, 2nd S., pp. 222-225.

[85] Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 267.

[86] British Goblins, pp. 143, 144.

[87] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1855, part ii. p. 58.

[88] See Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 324-325.

[89] Quoted in Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 444.

[90] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 1884, pp. 33-36.

[91] See Book of Days, ii. p. 287.

[92] Songs of the Russian People, p. 118.

[93] Quoted by Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, 1872, ii. pp. 254, 255.

[94] Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, Study of Folk-songs p. 10; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, i. p. 289.

[95] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 126; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 211.

[96] See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, pp. 48, 49.

[97] Jones’ Credulities, Past and Present, p. 376.

[98] See Dasent’s Tales of the Norse, 1859, p. 230.

[99] Jones’ Credulities, Past and Present, p. 373.

[100] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, pp. 255, 256.

[101] Hardwick’s Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore, 1872 p. 243; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, i. p. 289. See Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore, p. 103.

[102] See Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 331-335.

[103] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 255.

[104] Indo-European Folk-lore, pp. 104, 105.

[105] Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 131.

[106] Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England, p. 377.

[107] Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 105, 106.

[108] See Ibid. pp. 108-111.

[109] See Hartshorne’s Salopia Antiqua, p. 522

[110] Notes and Queries, 1st S. ii. p. 515.

[111] Nineteenth Century, April 1885, p. 625.

[112] See Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. pp. 289, 290.

[113] Nineteenth Century, April 1885, p. 625.

[114] Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 250.

[115] Ibid. p. 264.

[116] Ibid. p. 266.

[117] Book of Days, ii. p. 433.

[118] See Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore, p. 91.

[119] ‘West Sussex Superstitions,’ Folk-lore Record, i. p. 23.

[120] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 274, 275.

[121] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 275.

[122] See Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 274-278.

[123] See Wirt Sikes’ British Goblins, pp. 167-169.

[124] See Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire; Homerton’s Isles of Loch Awe; Hardwick’s Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore, pp. 153-176.

[125] Northern Mythology, iii. p. 219.

[126] Ibid. ii. pp. 195-202.

[127] Northern Mythology, ii. pp. 198, 199.

[128] See Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. pp. 102, 166, 167.

[129] The Nineteenth Century, ‘Comparative Study of Ghost Stories,’ 1885, xvii. pp. 629, 630.

[130] Rev. W. Gregor, Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, 1881, p. 69.

[131] Yorkshire Oddities, ii. p. 105.

[132] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. pp. 29, 30.

[133] See Wirt Sikes’ British Goblins, pp. 219-221.

[134] ‘Secrets of Sable Island,’ Harper’s Magazine.

[135] See Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. pp. 97, 202, 211; iii. pp. 11, 158, 268.

[136] Songs of the Russian People, 1872, p. 116.

[137] Folk-lore Record, 1878, i. p. 54.

[138] Evolution of Light from the Living Subject.

[139] Transactions Cardiff Natural Society, iv. p. 5.

[140] Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, p. 239.

[141] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. pp. 219-221.

[142] See ‘Essay on Fairy Superstitions’ in the Border Minstrelsy.

[143] Rink’s Tales and Traditions of the Eskimos, p. 43.

[144] Josselyn’s Two Voyages, p. 133.

[145] Primitive Culture, i. p. 390.

[146] See The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, 1877, i. pp. 288, 289.

[147] Eastern Counties Collectanea, p. 3.

[148] See Notes and Queries, 1st S. xii. p. 486, for another hole or pit story.

[149] The Curate of Cranston, and other Stories, 1862, ‘Carriage and Four Ghosts.’

[150] Notes and Queries, 1st S. v. p. 295.

[151] Hardwick’s Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore, p. 130.

[152] Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 112.

[153] Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 113, 114.

[154] A full account will be found in a paper by Mr. F. Ross, in the Leeds Mercury, 1884, entitled ‘Yorkshire Legends and Traditions.’

[155] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. pp. 72-78.

[156] Folk-lore of the Northern Counties, pp. 326-328.

[157] Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland, pp. 163, 164.

[158] See notes to Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, where much curious information will be found on this subject.

[159] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 437.

[160] Zoological Mythology, ii. p. 218.

[161] Folk-songs of the Russian People, p. 118.

[162] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 23.

[163] Ibid. p. 42.

[164] Miss Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, i. p. 380.

[165] Occult Sciences, 1855, Elihu Rich, p. 188.

[166] For works on this subject may be consulted, Colin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal; the Malleus Maleficarum of the Germans; Del Rio’s Disquisitiones MagicÆ; and Occult Sciences, paper by Elihu Rich, pp. 189-191.

[167] Gregor, Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, pp. 68, 69.

[168] 1799, i. p. 281.

[169] See ‘Ghosts and Ghost-lore,’ Leisure Hour, 1871, pp. 334-766.

[170] Life of Benvenuto Cellini.

[171] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 143.

[172] See also Real Ghost Stories. Edited by W. T. Stead.

[173] Primitive Culture, ii. p. 153.

[174] See Daily Telegraph, Nov. 17, 1890. Article on ‘Ghost Laying.’ Burns’s ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ turns on this point, and it is noticed by Sir Walter Scott in ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ (Canto III. Stanza 13): ‘The running stream dissolv’d the spell.’

[175] Romances of West of England, p. 470.

[176] Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 107.

[177] Lewin, Hill Tracts of Chittagong, p. 84.

[178] See Sir John Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation and Primitive Condition of Man, 1870, p. 145.

[179] Fiji and the Fijians, i. p. 248.

[180] Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 113.

[181] Folk-songs of Russia, p. 320.

[182] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 275.

[183] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 37.

[184] Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 140, 141.

[185] British Goblins, p. 165.

[186] Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 138, 139.

[187] Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 122, 123.

[188] Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 247.

[189] Jabez Allies, Worcestershire.

[190] Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 337.

[191] Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 125.

[192] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 338.

[193] See Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Legends, pp. 10-12.

[194] Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. p. 265.

[195] See Gentleman’s Magazine, 1855, part ii. pp. 58, 59.

[196] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. pp. 155-159.

[197] Jones: Credulities Past and Present, p. 92.

[198] Romances of West of England, p. 366.

[199] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, pp. 10, 11.

[200] Quoted in Bassett’s ‘Legends of the Sea,’ from Livermore’s History of Block Island.

[201] Life of Byron.

[202] See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 109.

[203] Principles of Sociology, p. 219.

[204] Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 11.

[205] Northern Mythology, ii. p. 203.

[206] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 446.

[207] Chap. II.

[208] Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 344.

[209] See Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works, 1853, viii. p. 126.

[210] Popular Romances of West of England, p. 372.

[211] See Chapter on ‘Phantom Birds.’

[212] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1764, p. 59.

[213] See Moncure Conway’s Demonology and Devil Lore.

[214] Night Side of Nature, 1854, p. 315.

[215] See Notes and Queries, 5th S. xi. p. 334.

[216] Chambers’s EncyclopÆdia, 1886, x. p. 179.

[217] The Nineteenth Century, April 1865, p. 628; Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 1887, i. p. 104.

[218] Fison’s Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 253.

[219] 1822, Part ii. pp. 598, 599.

[220] Quoted in Mrs. Crowe’s Night Side of Nature, 1854, p. 181.

[221] See Notes and Queries, 1st S. iii. 170.

[222] Life and Times of Lord Brougham, written by himself, 1871.

[223] See Brand’s Popular Antiquities, 1870, iii. p. 117.

[224] Dr. F. G. Lee: Glimpses of the Supernatural; the subject has been discussed in Notes and Queries.

[225] Comparative Study of Ghost Stories, April 1885, pp. 630, 631.

[226] Certainty of a World of Spirits, p. 181.

[227] Yardley’s Supernatural in Fiction, p. 94.

[228] T. M. Jarvis: Accredited Ghost Stories, 1823

[229] Chambers’s Popular Rhymes of Scotland, pp. 238, 239.

[230] Jones’s Credulities Past and Present, p. 123.

[231] See Hunt’s Popular Romances of West of England.

[232] Wirt Sikes: British Goblins, p. 26.

[233] See Chapter ‘Phantom Animals.’

[234] Hunt’s Popular Romances of West of England, p. 354.

[235] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, iii. p. 96.

[236] Jones’s Credulities Past and Present, p. 138.

[237] Popular Romances of West of England, p. 350.

[238] Folk-lore Record, i. p. 54.

[239] McAnally: Irish Wonders, p. 112.

[240] Irish Wonders, 1888, p. 114.

[241] Irish Wonders, p. 112.

[242] Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland, p. 84.

[243] British Goblins, pp. 212-216.

[244] See Bassett’s Legends and Superstitions of the Sea, pp. 346, 347.

[245] Quoted in Bassett’s Legends of the Sea, p. 351.

[246] Poems: A Greypoint Legend, 1797.

[247] The Wreck of the Schooner Breeze.

[248] Romances of West of England, pp. 362-364.

[249] Traditions and Fireside Stories of West Cornwall.

[250] Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, p. 338.

[251] Discoverie of Witchcraft.

[252] Pop. Antiq. iii. p. 85.

[253] Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft.

[254] Quoted by Bassett in his Legends and Superstitions of the Sea, p. 288.

[255] Ibid. p. 286.

[256] Romances of West of England, p. 367.

[257] Wirt Sikes: British Goblins.

[258] A Discovery Concerning Ghosts, p. 3.

[259] Night Side of Nature.

[260] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 270.

[261] See All the Year Round, June 22, 1867.

[262] Primitive Culture, i. p. 480.

[263] See Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 250; Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation, and Primitive Condition of Man, 1870, p. 246.

[264] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. pp. 159-180.

[265] See Lord Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, and Notes and Queries, July 1860.

[266] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1855, pt. ii. pp. 58, 59.

[267] More Ghost Stories, p. 64.

[268] All the Year Round, December 24, 1870.

[269] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. pp. 226-233.

[270] Ibid. see p. 222.

[271] More Ghost Stories, W. T. Stead, 1892, p. 63.

[272] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 314, 315.

[273] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 314, 315.

[274] See Ibid. p. 315; Ingram’s Haunted Homes, pp. 266-277; More Ghost Stories, W.T. Stead.

[275] Quoted in Book of Days, i. p. 649.

[276] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 22.

[277] See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, ii. p. 26.

[278] Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 108.

[279] Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes, v. p. 270.

[280] See Herbert Spencer’s Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 199.

[281] Ibid. p. 199.

[282] The Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 109.

[283] The Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 111.

[284] Northern Mythology, ii. p. 20.

[285] Bucolics, viii. p. 98.

[286] Primitive Culture, ii. p. 30.

[287] See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 21.

[288] Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland, p. 84.

[289] Essay in the Study of Folk-Songs, pp. 14, 15.

[290] Gill: Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, pp. 162, 163.

[291] See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 33.

[292] Ibid. p. 30.

[293] Northern Mythology, i. p. 286.

[294] Cf. Othello, Act v. sc. 2.

[295] Songs of the Russian People, pp. 115, 116.

[296] Occult Sciences, 1855; Apparitions, pp. 80, 81.

[297] See E. Yardley’s Supernatural in Fiction, pp. 29-31.

[298] See Chapter on ‘Ghost Laying.’

[299] Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 112; Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 319.

[300] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 20.

[301] Ibid. p. 29.

[302] Ibid. p. 21.

[303] ‘The Primitive Ghost,’ Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 107.

[304] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 205.

[305] See Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore, 1867, p. 63.

[306] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1865, pt. ii. p. 564.

[307] See Popular Irish Superstitions, by W.R. Wilde, p. 109.

[308] More Ghost Stories, collected and edited by W.T. Stead, 1892, p. 22.

[309] See Mrs. Crowe’s Night Side of Nature, 1854, p. 111.

[310] Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, p. 215.

[311] Primitive Culture, 1891, i. p. 448.

[312] Real Ghost Stories, W. T. Stead, p. 103.

[313] Harland and Wilkinson, Lancashire Folk-lore, p. 105.

[314] Quoted by Mrs. Crowe, Night Side of Nature, p. 202.

[315] Messrs. Gurney, Myers, and Podmore.

[316] Phantasms of the Living, ii. p. 531.

[317] Nineteenth Century, April 1865, p. 629.

[318] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 48.

[319] See Book of Days, ii. pp. 519-521.

[320] See Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, iii. p. 144.

[321] Teutonic Mythology, ii. p. 827.

[322] Hamlet, Act v. sc. 1.

[323] See Folk-lore of Plants, pp. 12, 13.

[324] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 293.

[325] Principles of Sociology, 1885, pp. 357-359.

[326] Nineteenth Century, April, 1882, p. 394; Superstitions of Modern Greece, by M. Le Baron d’Estournelles.

[327] Primitive Superstitions, p. 288.

[328] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 2nd S. pp. 24, 25.

[329] Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 322.

[330] Notes and Queries, 1st S. v. p. 195.

[331] Popular Rhymes of Scotland, pp. 241-242.

[332] Popular Rhymes of Scotland, p. 240.

[333] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 247-248.

[334] Wirt Sikes: British Goblins, pp. 151-152.

[335] 1865, pt. ii. pp. 706-707.

[336] Primitive Superstitions, p. 310.

[337] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 309.

[338] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, p. 53.

[339] A Discovery Concerning Ghosts, 1864, pp. 18, 19.

[340] Haunted Homes, p. 253.

[341] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 145.

[342] Mrs. Latham’s ‘West Sussex Superstitions,’ Folk-lore Record, i. p. 21.

[343] See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 146.

[344] See Southey’s Life of Wesley.

[345] Walter Gregor: Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, pp. 205, 206.

[346] Nineteenth Century, vol. xvii. p. 627.

[347] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 302.

Transcriber’s note

A table of contents was missing from the original and has been added. Also an alphabetic jump table for navigating the Index was added.

Footnotes were renumbered and gathered at the end of the chapter to which they belong.

Errors in punctuation, capitalisation, and missing letters and footnote numbers have been corrected without note. If necessary for the placement of quotation marks or the footnote number, the source of some quotations was verified on Internet Archive.

The following corrections were made, on page
89 “ledy” changed to “lady” (The lady in earth by her lord lay)
91 “Brazials” changed to “Brazilians” (The Brazilians imagined that the souls of the bad)
257 2nd “to” removed (a belief to which Falstaff alludes in)
320 “Ann” changed to “Amy” (the supposed scene of the murder of Lady Amy Bobsart)
369 “ninty-ninth” changed to “ninety-ninth” (when in the ninety-ninth year of her age)
439 “Becklington” changed to “Beckington” (Beckington Castle, 333)
439 “Bergmouch” changed to “BergmÖnch” (BergmÖnch, spectre so called, 269)
440 “Bodach Gartin” changed to “Bodacher, Garlin” (Bodacher Garlin, 221) and the word order changed
440 “Cassioway” changed to “Cassowary” (Cassowary, 111)
440 “Chibehas” changed to “Chibchas” (Chibchas, 184)
442 “Gurlinheg” changed to “Gurlinbeg” (Gurlinbeg, family of, 221)
444 “Lledwith” changed to “Lledrith” (Lledrith, 370)
444 “Wray” changed to “Way” (Mary Way, spectre so called, 152)
444 “Mazarine” changed to “Mazarin” (Mazarin, Duchess of, 254)
444 “Mohin” changed to “Mohun” (Mohun, Lord, 372)
445 “460-469” changed to “400-409” (Money hidden by ghosts, 400-409)
445 “Padfoit” changed to “Padfooit” (Padfooit, 113)
445 “Padfoot” added (Padfoot, 113)
445 “Josceline” changed to “Joceline” (Percy, Sir Joceline, 150)
445 “Potawatomies” changed to “Potawatomis” (Potawatomis, 184)
445 “Peverel” changed to “Peverell” (Sampford Peverell ghost, 322)
447 “Waddon” changed to “Waddow” (Waddow Hall, 327)
and in footnote 101: 2 words exchanged between lines, “Indo-” and “1872” (Folk-lore, 1872 p. 243; ... See Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore).

Otherwise the original was preserved, including unusual, archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation.

Additional: “Vanna Levou” in the quote on page 26 should probably be “Vanua Levu” also known as “Sandelwood Island”, Fuji.

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