Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various

and transferred to this stone by order of

MR. JARVIS BUCK, Churchwarden.

A.D. 1816."

UNICORN.

FOLK LORE.

Swearing on a Skull.

—In April, 1851, a man was committed to Mayo prison for cutting off the head of a corpse but a few days interred. His object in severing the head was that of clearing himself of some imputed crime by swearing on a skull, a superstition said to be very common in that part of Ireland.

PHILIP S. KING.

New Moon.

—If, when you look at the new moon for the first time, you think of one particular thing which you greatly desire to have, or to have accomplished, your wishes on that same point will be realised before the close of the year.