Thomas Dyer - The Ghost World

Night Side of Nature.

Yardley’s Supernatural in Fiction , p. 93.

Letourneau’s Sociology , p. 257.

Primitive Culture , ii. p. 29; Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare , pp. 450, 451.

Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties , p. 126, note.

Thorpe’s Northern Mythology , ii. p. 166.

See Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland , p. 68.

Edited by C. S. Burne.

Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, 1886, Essays in the Study of Folk-songs , p. 8.

Study of Folk-songs , p. 2.

Study of Folk-songs , p. 8.

Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People , p. 121.

Study of Folk-songs , p. 21.

Folk-lore Record , 1879, iii. pp. 111, 112.

Folk-lore Record , 1879, iii. pp. 111, 112.

Shropshire Folk-lore , p. 119.

Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland , p. 69.

Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation , p. 134.

Primitive Culture , ii. p. 120.

The Chinese : J. F. Davis, 1836, ii. pp. 139, 140.

Folk-lore of China , p. 73.

See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , p. 304.

Primitive Culture , ii. p. 28.

See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , 1880, pp. 19, 20.

Thorpe’s Northern Mythology , ii, p. 19.

Thorpe’s Northern Mythology , ii. pp. 94, 95.

Griffis, The Mikado’s Kingdom .

Denny’s Folk-lore of China ; see Bassett’s Legends and Superstitions of the Sea , p. 296.

Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland , 1881, p. 68.

Haunted Homes of England , 1881, p. 286.

Haunted Homes of England , 2nd S., pp. 222-225.

Folk-lore of Northern Counties , p. 267.

British Goblins , pp. 143, 144.

Gentleman’s Magazine , 1855, part ii. p. 58.

See Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties , pp. 324-325.

Quoted in Tylor’s Primitive Culture , i. p. 444.

See Ingram’s Haunted Homes , 1884, pp. 33-36.

See Book of Days , ii. p. 287.

Songs of the Russian People , p. 118.

Quoted by Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology , 1872, ii. pp. 254, 255.

Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, Study of Folk-songs p. 10; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology , i. p. 289.

Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties , p. 126; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 211.

See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , pp. 48, 49.

Jones’ Credulities, Past and Present , p. 376.

See Dasent’s Tales of the Norse , 1859, p. 230.

Jones’ Credulities, Past and Present , p. 373.

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , pp. 255, 256.

Hardwick’s Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore , 1872 p. 243; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology , i. p. 289. See Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore , p. 103.

See Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties , pp. 331-335.

Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions , p. 255.

Indo-European Folk-lore , pp. 104, 105.

Shropshire Folk-lore , p. 131.

Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England , p. 377.

Shropshire Folk-lore , pp. 105, 106.

See Ibid. pp. 108-111.

See Hartshorne’s Salopia Antiqua , p. 522

Notes and Queries , 1st S. ii. p. 515.

Nineteenth Century , April 1885, p. 625.

See Thorpe’s Northern Mythology , ii. pp. 289, 290.

Nineteenth Century , April 1885, p. 625.

Letourneau’s Sociology , p. 250.

Ibid. p. 264.

Ibid. p. 266.

Book of Days , ii. p. 433.

See Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore , p. 91.

‘West Sussex Superstitions,’ Folk-lore Record , i. p. 23.