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22 or relatives buried in the churchyard, and it is the souls of these that come to fetch their kinsman or kinswoman.

Baxter, in his Certainty of the World of Spirits, quotes a letter from Mr. John Davis of Gleneurglyn, 1656, in which he says that the corpse-candles do as much resemble material candle-light as eggs do eggs, saving that in their journey these candles are sometimes visible and sometimes disappear, especially if anyone comes near them, or in any way meet them. On these occasions they