The Ghost World

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.