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NOTES:-- Page Illustrations of Scottish Ballads, by Richard John King 505 The Red Hand--The Holt Family--Vincent Family 506 Vondel's Lucifer, by Janus Dousa 507 A Myth of Midridge 509 Folk Lore Miscellanies:--St. Thomas's Day--Black Doll at Old Store-shops--Snake Charming--Mic...
NOTES:-- Page Illustrations of Scottish Ballads, by Richard John King 505 The Red Hand--The Holt Family--Vincent Family 506 Vondel's Lucifer, by Janus Dousa 507 A Myth of Midrid...
2. Chapter 2Talking about fairies the other day to a nearly Octogenarian female neighbour, I asked, had she ever seen one in her youthful days. Her answer was in the negative; "but," quoth...
3. Chapter 3"A practice somewhat similar to this prevails in our our times, for in some of the provinces, whenever a notorious criminal is condemned to death, parents bring their sons with...
4. Chapter 4Then, he taking up the cushion, they take hands, and dance round, singing as before: and this they do till the whole company is taken into the ring. Then the cushion is laid dow...
5. Chapter 5A concise summary of the trials of these men, and all the hideous details of their tortures and execution, will be found, by those who have a taste for such things, in the third...
6. Chapter 6WESTMINSTER AND DR. WISEMAN; or, FACTS _v._ FICTION. By WILLIAM PAGE WOOD. Esq., M.P., Q.C. Reprinted from _The Times_, with an Advertisement on the Subject of the WESTMINSTER S...