The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-10-06


and streams, and churches. Breedon
church., ia I4incolushire, stands alone on
the top Of a high hill with the village at
its foot, They began building it 3within
the rAlage Till they changed the site, be-
cause every night the stones lad during
the day were carried up to the bill top
by doves The site and name of VIM
wick church was decided by pig who
every night came, crying wee-wiekl wee
wick and carried the stones in his mouth
from the wrong place selected, to the
ground halloHed by St. OswalPs death.
The devil built the bridge at Kirkb by
LonsdAle, and the picturesque stones in
the stream below are those which he was
carrying in his apron when It's string
broke At Peel, in the Isle of Man, a
witch with basin of water said cnce that
the herring feet would uot return Ev-
cry ship was lost, aud she was rolled
down bill in abarrei sot with spikes. The
grass has never grown since, on the bar
rc's track, aud to this you may see the
mark all down." The Welsh peasant
hears spirit hounds, the Cron Anuwn;
when tho storm sounds over the moun-
tains. Sometimes swelling like the bay
OF bloodhound, the nearer they are to
man the less their voice, and the fur
ther the louder The shrek of the Cy-
Oeraeth 10 often heard She is the hag
OF the mist, who sits IN he mountain log,
with torn disheyelled hair, lank arms and
claws, long black teeth in her corpse-like
face, and leathery Eat's-wings Her name
means cold grief, and her wall freezes the
blood of those who hear it. Sometimes,
Eha daps her wings against the window
pane, aud means the name of one within
who has been marked for DEATH 1t is
this bag who cuts the torrent beds by
dropping when she is about to settle ou
mountain, tie huge stones she carries
in her cloak as ballast when she flies. Ia
some parts Of South Wales, this hag has
no sway, but it is Brenhin Llwyd, the
grey king, who sits ever sileut in the
mist There is Welsh fairy, the PWoca,
that is seen constantly upon the moor in
the form Of handful of lose dried grass
rolling before the wind. Eveu upon
wisp Of dead grass will the fancy be SGT
rolling. Miss Costello tells Pyre+
mean legend, which detects the spirit
of the Lord of Orthez in two Straws NOV
ing on the floor.
The fancy must and will work. The
whole world ID full Of wonders that reveal
the divine glory and goodness. Life is
full Of strange problems, of sntanglements
of love aud enmity, Of days of mirth and
weeping, that engross attention from al
powers Of the mind and soul. While We
are ignorant, we link religion to suoIl fan
oifuI opinions as those Of which a hand
full has been shaken out on this leaf of
paper, Teaoa folks little better; let
their fancy, thriving upon diet wholesome
and abundant, be the steady helper to
them, that it may add its qaickening in
AuCnoe to their pleasure and their work
here, and become their hope for the here
after. Superstition will soon vanish. All
that is poetry in folklore may abide while
there is litetarurs in our country, As
superstition, it desrades: as poetry, it
raises U.s. For, e fsHf fsea Ee-E u 8.
Shakspeare's self with ev'ry garland cr0wn'd,
Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen,
la musing hour; his wayward sisters found,
And with their terrors drest the magic
scene.
From them he sung when mid his bold design,
Before the Scot, afflicted and aghAst,
The shadowy kings of Banquos fated line
Through the dark:cave in gleamy pagsant
passed fau r sfs
But it is not worth while to drag dy-
ing man out of his bed because We fancy
he is lying upon game feathers, or to 90
INTO church at midnight and steal
minute cutting Of lead from each diamond
pane ofits windows, that We may make Of
such cIttings heart of lead for cure of
sickness. There is too much of the heart
of lead, too little of the golden heart
that brings men health in such creduli-
ty 9a5 hoa #.dBE edi g.