and Wa

hings in heaven a

amt of in ou

am

existed in the outward and physical manifestation of the call of Death, w

some distance from the body, but so realistic as to be unvaryingly mistaken for the actual person. A further point is, that

hysical explanation or evidence of the cause, although the nature of the sound or other phenomenon might be simple enough in character. S

be noted that a great many accounts of such appeara

ce which happened in the early twenties of la

nan Woods. His son William was away at Glencaple Quay (a distance of twelve miles as the crow flies) with a Water of Urr sloop unloading timber, and was not expected home before the end of the week. The old man had just finished his task when he very distinctly s

and whaur's he gaun?' was the do

oot? There's nae Wullie here,' answered Ma

ad a queer drawn look aboot his face that fairly

ger rode up to the little homestead and broke the sad news of the death by drowning of 'Wullie,' a few minutes before twelve that day, when the tide was at its full, and almost at the very time that his father ha

lencairn district, the folk-lore of which has b

ds herself. Retracing her steps, she entered the house again to wait her friend's arrival. Her expected visitor not appearing, Mrs G-- went to the door to see what detained her, but although she looked in every

see me yesterday! What

d, 'I can assure you I wasna that, for I wa

pse was carried to the churchyard, over the very track her wr

his wife's attention to the early return of the boy from school. Very sceptical, and assuring him that he must be mistaken, the good woman went herself into the room, to find nothing there, although she looked behind the door and elsewhere to make sure that no boyish prank was

which the following instance which happened to a very intimate friend, o

Weel, ye see, I'm tying on my grin wi' a bit o' wax'd thread, whan by the house-en' comes my auld grandfather wi' his clicked staff, that he ay had wi' him, in ae han', and in the tither his auld loofie o' a mitten, which he hadna as yet drawn on. He cam' close by me, and gaed a kinn o' a luik at what I was doing, then wised himsel' awa' alang the hip o' o'e hill, to look how the nowt did, and twa young foals, as was his usual wont. Weel, awa' he gaed; I was sae thrang when he gaed by that I never spake to him, neither did he to me, and I began to think about this when I was mair at leisure

d I, and said na mair; I

i' the boy?' (q

) 'and I'll tell y

ght ava, and came back again in an unco way. That vera night granfaither grew ill, whic

ha, in Kirkmaiden, comes

outhouses were a good way from the dwelling-house, maybe three hundred yards. When he was crossing ower from the byres to go to the stable he saw a white-clad woman coming towards him, which he thought was very like the figure of Mrs Anderson, a

lighted lamp in her hand, the semblance of a gentleman of the house, attired in military dress, and whom she knew perfectly well was far from his h

personal interest, being an incident

ght in her head of anything approaching the supernatural, when to her dismay and consternation she was noiselessly joined by a figure in white, who passed through, be it noticed, and did not leap or jump over, a rough larch fence running along the roadside. The f

ie Comp

. Copland,

rr, and was never more heard tell of. My grandfather, or rather the lad who was to be my grandfather, scoured the Solway shore from point to point on horseback for several days, but all that the sea

ouse; the falling of pictures without apparent cause; the baying of dogs in the watches of the night; the footfall and apparent sound of footsteps in the house, heard overhead or coming along passages, or ascending or descending stairs, and so reali

believed in; indeed, there is not a parish in the whole district we are treating

across the window is in this distr

of a medical man in Moniaive, for a time heard persistent strange footfalls in an upper room of the house. The doctor afterw

opping of a clock associated with death appeared i

some neighbours forced the door about half-past ten, and found that she had passed away. It is a singular coincidence that an eight-day clock which had been her property, and is now in t

this mysterious light illumined up, on one occasion, the whole interior of a byre where a woman w

s a good example of this form

intance lived. Entering the house she commented on what she had seen, and expressed the hope that 'it wasna the deid licht.' Her fears w

irn, and perhaps a more valuable one, on

ss right through the obstructing fence as if nothing of the kind had been there, and although the ground below the house was very uneven, the light itself was never lost sight of for a moment. Peggy, rooted to the spot, watched the light go down through the fields, then along the public road until the churchy

d Li

. Copland,

peculiar clicking noise made by wood-worms; and the "dede-drap," which was the rather eerie sound made by the intermitten

d from its resemblance to wood-shaving) when it falls over the edge in semi-circular form, and which, if pronounced, and turn

as a blue mark which appears on the body of a person about to die and without the physical expla

" by the Bard of Corrie (Dumfriesshire), are quoted on account of

ith had been

eal sacks i

, folks scarce

maist ou

ad the death-

s the laps

the dead li

e and sulph

ed auld Bawt

ang as thra

, sae grave

red quakin

ry kirkyair

raised sic e

ned his mai

mix amang

tles dead-dr

'les dead-

he thack, an

ugs the dea

e special appearances and portents occurrin

ed the nuptials of Sir Thomas, the first baronet, when marrying for the third time. On the wedding-day his son, Roger, went out of the castle, and, happening to turn his eyes towards the loch, descried the fatal bird. Returning, overwhelmed

darroch is believed to be heralded by a sudd

n, the pulpit and bell were removed to be taken across Luce Bay, there to be placed in the new church of the same name of Kirkmaiden. Although the day was fine and the wind fair, a storm sprang up, and down went boat and bell to the bottom, for, as true believers knew, the bell had been consecrated,

there are n

Kirkmaid

ey hear the w

at Lam