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Rh them, and are labelled in a tongue "understanded of the people." It seems to be an admitted fact that more collectors are the need of the moment, so it would be a great pity if people who could do useful work should be scared away by finding themselves confronted by technical difficulties at the outset. If the first broad outline of classification is made clear and simple, expressed in ordinary English words used in their natural sense, study and experience will presently show the worker the need for a fuller nomenclature, and he will welcome the technical words—life-casket, husk-myth, cumulative tale, and so forth—as he becomes acquainted with the ideas or the things they have been formed to describe. But otherwise, I am afraid, the would-be neophyte will be inclined to think that the Folk-lorists have taken a hint from their Folk-tales, and enchanted a charming prince into the guise of a repulsive monster!

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By Miss.

A PROPOS of "Kentsham Bell" (see "Two Folk-Tales from Herefordshire" in Folk-Lore Journal, vol. ii. p. 20), there is a parish called Kinsham in Herefordshire, about four miles from Presteign. There is also Kentchurch. The Rev. M. G. Watkins, who is now Rector of the latter parish, would no doubt readily make inquiries with a view to ascertaining whether this Herefordshire story can be localised in either of these places.