[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.