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300 who passes the limits I fix shall—I'll not say what he shall be done to—but you'll see! Go, I'm looking at you!—Wuthering Heights, ed. 1881, pp. 11-12.

(2.) Pigeons' Feathers.—That's a turkey's,' she murmured to herself, 'and this is a wild duck's, and this is a pigeon's. Ah, they put pigeons' feathers in the pillows—no wonder I couldn't die! Let me take care to throw it on the floor when I lie down.—Ibid. p. 102.

(3.) Elf-shots.—(a.) I see in you, Nelly,' she continued dreamily, 'an aged woman; you have grey hair and bent shoulders. This bed is the fairy cave under Peniston Crag, and you are gathering elf-bolts to hurt our heifers, pretending, while I am near, that they are only locks of wool. That's what you'll come to fifty years hence; I know you are not so now.—Ibid.

(b.) "Confused as Catherine was, her wits were alert at applying our conversation. 'Ah! Nelly has played traitor,' she exclaimed passionately. 'Nelly is my hidden enemy. You witch! So you do seek elf-bolts to hurt us! Let me go, and I'll make her rue! I'll make her howl a recantation!—Ibid. p. 107.

I do not think that those citations call for comment here. The superstitions referred to are found commonly enough in collections of folk-lore. I am not however familiar with passages similar to the above in standard literature; and as at once testimonies to the careful observation of Emily Brontë, and illustrations of the familiar use of scraps of folk-lore in everyday life, I have brought them together for ready reference in the pages of the Folk-Lore Journal.

[Mr. Black's suggestion is a good one. But we think an index of these items would suffice.—]

Sorcery and Witchcraft in South Italy.—A paper was read on this subject before the Society of Anthropology of Paris, on 4th January, 1883, by M. de Maricourt, member of the Archaeological Committee of Senlis (Oise). The author referred to the superstitions connected with the evil eye and with the employment of sorcerers; to the methods of counteracting witchcraft, and to some customs which look like a reminiscence of anthropophagy; to religious singularities,