[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.