[47] A few hundred feet from the place where this occurred, is a lane (Oldfield Lane, Wortley, near Leeds) which was noted, many years ago, as the beat of one of those somewhat rare spectres, a headless ghost. Some are living even now who have known those who had seen this phantom. When last seen, it appeared as a comfortable-looking man, dressed in a drab-coat, and carried the head under the arm. As a Yorkshire version of a very ancient and wide-spread superstition, its memory is worth preserving. The belief in headless ghosts is found in many parts of England, Ireland (the Dullahan or Dulachan), Wales, Scotland, Spain, France, and Germany.
[48] Chambers' Miscellany. Art. "Spectral Apparitions," &c.
[49] Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. 2nd Ed., p. 3.
[50] "Phantoms of the Far East." Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. Vol. XVII, p. 315.
[51] Busby's Lucretius, B. IV.
[52] Temora.
[53] Notes and Queries, Vol. VIII, p. 7.
[54] Letters on Natural Magic. 5th Ed., p. 166.
[55] D. Jardine, "Notes and Queries," Vol. VIII, p. 512, Nov. 26, 1853.
[56] Hudibras. Can. III.