[167] Gregor, Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, pp. 68, 69.
[168] 1799, i. p. 281.
[169] See ‘Ghosts and Ghost-lore,’ Leisure Hour, 1871, pp. 334-766.
[170] Life of Benvenuto Cellini.
[171] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 143.
[172] See also Real Ghost Stories. Edited by W. T. Stead.
[173] Primitive Culture, ii. p. 153.
[174] See Daily Telegraph, Nov. 17, 1890. Article on ‘Ghost Laying.’ Burns’s ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ turns on this point, and it is noticed by Sir Walter Scott in ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ (Canto III. Stanza 13): ‘The running stream dissolv’d the spell.’
[175] Romances of West of England, p. 470.
[176] Contemporary Review, xlviii. p. 107.