[55] I met a man in the train the other day who said he had often seen them sucking.
[56] Henry Wilson, of Broughton, was a wise man of some repute after Wrightson’s time.
[57] Something like Sadler and Clarke’s method.
[58] The usual time was midnight; this case, so far as I know, is unique.
[59] Accuse openly.
[60] To prepare a ‘hand of glory,’ the hand of a man who had been hanged had to be left for some days in a special kind of pickle; afterwards it was dried in the sun, and then parched in the smoke of certain herbs. A special kind of candle had to be made from certain fats; with this candle lighted and stuck in the dead man’s hand, a hypnotic sleep could be cast upon a whole household. Henderson’s Folklore.
[61] There was a marvellous hobman once lived near Ripon, but his deeds some one writing of the West Riding must chronicle.
[62] With slight variation the same story is known in other parts of the riding, also in Lancashire, and is as old as the hills throughout Scandinavia.
[63] A similar story is told of Sir Francis Drake.
[64] See [Glossary].