6. Ticks in the oak-beams of old houses, or death-watches so called, warn the inhabitants of that dwelling of some misfortune.
7. Coffin-rings, when dug out of a grave, are worn to keep off the cramp.
8. Water from the font is good for ague and rheumatism.
9. No moon, in its change, ought to be seen through a window.
10. Turn your money on hearing the first cuckoo.
11. The cattle low and kneel on Christmas eve.
12. Should a corpse be ever carried through any path, &c., that path cannot be done away with. For cases, see Wales, Somerset, Bampton, Devon.
13. On the highest mound of the hill above Weston-super-Mare, is a heap of stones, to which every fisherman in his daily walk to Sand Bay, Kewstoke, contributes one towards his day's good fishing.
14. Smothering hydrophobic patients is still spoken of in Somerset as so practised.
15. Origin of the saying "I'll send you to Jamaica." Did it not take its source from the unjudge-like sentence of Judge Jeffries to those who suffered without sufficient evidence, for their friendly disposition towards the Duke of Monmouth: "To be sent —— —— to the plantations of Jamaica?" Many innocent persons were so cruelly treated in Somerset.