{245} Tylor, Primitive Culture, i. 143.

{246} This belief is not confined to the Highlands.  Mr. Podmore quotes Ghost 636 in the Psychical Society’s collections:  ’The narrator’s mother is said to have seen the figure of a man’.  The father saw nothing till his wife laid her hand on his shoulder, when he exclaimed, ‘I see him now’ (S.  P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 247).

{250} ‘Spectral evidence’ was common in witch trials.  Wierus (b. 1515) mentions a woman who confessed that she had been at a witch’s covin, or ‘sabbath,’ when her body was in bed with her husband.  If there was any confirmatory testimony, if any one chose to say that he saw her at the ‘sabbath,’ that was ‘spectral evidence’.  This kind of testimony made it vain for a witch to take Mr. Weller’s advice, and plead ‘a halibi,’ but even Cotton Mather admits that ‘spectral evidence’ is inconclusive.

{253} Papon.  Arrets., xx. 5, 9.  Charondas, Lib. viii.  Resp. 77.  Covarruvias, iv. 6.  Mornac, s. v., Habitations, 27 ff., Locat. and Conduct.  Other doctors do not deny hauntings, but allege that a brave man should disregard them, and that they do not fulfil he legal condition, Metus cadens in constantem virim.  These doctors may never have seen a ghost, or may have been unusually courageous.  They held that a man might get accustomed to the annoyances of bogles, s’apprivoiser avec cette frayeur, like the Procter family at Willington.

{259} Miscellanies, p. 94, London, 1857.

{262} Hibbert, Philosophy of Apparitions, second edition, p. 224.  Hibbert finds Graime guilty, but only because he knew where the body lay.

{263} Notices Relative to the Bannatyne Club, 1836, p. 191.  Remarkable Trial in Maryland.

{267} Paris, 1708.  Reprinted by Lenglet Dufresnoy, in his Dissertations sur les Apparitions.  Avignon, 1751, vol. iii. p. 38.

{269} Second edition, Buon, Paris, 1605.  First edition, Angers, 1586.

{273} Dr. Lee, in Sights and Sounds (p. 43), quotes an Irish lawsuit in 1890.  The tenants were anxious not to pay rent, but were non-suited.  No reference to authorities is given.  There was also a case at Dublin in 1885.  Waldron’s house was disturbed, ’stones were thrown at the windows and doors,’ and Waldron accused his neighbour, Kiernan, of these assaults.  He lost his case (Evening Standard, February 23, 1885, is cited).

{275} p. 195, London, 1860.

{276} The account followed here is that of the narrator in La Table Parlante, p. 130, who differs in some points from the Marquis de Mirville in his Fragment d’un Ouvrage Inedit, Paris, 1852.

{277} For bewitching by touch see Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World, p. 150.  ‘Library of Old Authors,’ London, 1862.

{279a} Cotton Mather, op. cit., p. 131.

{279b} Table Parlante, p. 151.  A somewhat different version is given p. 145.  The narrator seems to say that Cheval himself deposed to having witnessed this experiment.