T here are many strange superstitions concerning the dead.
The people seem to believe in their actual presence, though unseen, and have a great fear and dread of their fatal and mysterious power. If a person of doubtful character dies, too bad for heaven, too good for hell, they imagine that his soul is sent back to earth, and obliged to obey the order of some person who bids him remain in a particular place until the Dayu of Judgment, or until another soul is found willing to meet him there, and then they may both pass into heaven together, absolved. An incident is related that happened in the County Galway, concerning this superstition. A gentleman of rank and fortune, but of a free and dissipated life, became the lover of a pretty girl, one of the tenant's daughters. Some time after, the girl, coming home late one evening met the ghost of her lover, at a very lonesome part of the road.