[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.