{220} 30th January, 1717.

{221} Glanvil’s Sadducismus Triumphatus, 1726.  Preface to part ii., Mompesson’s letters.

{222} Gentleman’s Magazine, November, December, 1872.

{223} This happened, to a less degree, in the Wesley case, and is not uncommon in modern instances.  The inference seems to be that the noises, like the sights occasionally seen, are hallucinatory, not real.  Gentleman’s Magazine, Dec., 1872, p. 666.

{229} S.P.R.  Proceedings, vol. xii., p. 7.

{232} Demon Possession in China, p. 399.  By the Rev. John L. Nevius, D.D.  Forty years a missionary in China.  Revel, New York, 1894.

{233a} Translated from report of Hsu Chung-ki, Nevius, p. 61.

{233b} Nevius, pp. 403-406.

{234} Op. cit., p. 415.  There are other cases in Mr. Denny’s Folklore of China.

{239a} The Great Amherst Mystery, by Walter Hubbell.  Brentano, New York, 1882.  I obtained some additional evidence at first hand published in Longman’s Magazine.

{239b} The sources for this tale are two Gaelic accounts, one of which is printed in the Gael, vol. vi., p. 142, and the other in the Glenbard Collection of Gaelic Poetry, by the Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair, p. 297 ff.  The former was communicated by Mr. D. C. Macpherson from local tradition; the latter was obtained from a tailor, a native of Lochaber, who emigrated to Canada when about thirty years of age.  When the story was taken down from his lips in 1885, he was over eighty years old, and died only a few months later.

{246} John Arnason, in his Icelandic Folklore and Fairy Tales (vol. i., p. 309), gives the account of this as written by the Sheriff Hans Wium in a letter to Bishop Haldorr Brynjolfsson in the autumn of 1750.

{249} Huld, part 3, p. 25, Keykjavik, 1893.

{259} As at Amherst!

{272} Written out from tradition on 24th May, 1852.  The name of the afflicted family is here represented by a pseudonym.

{273} From Eyrbyggja Saga, chaps, l.-lv.  Froda is the name of a farm on the north side of Snaefell Ness, the great headland which divides the west coast of Iceland.

{292} Fact.

{299} Cornhill Magazine, 1896.

{300} This story should come under the head of “Common Deathbed Wraiths,” but, it is such an uncommon one!