Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-18

man did who wer e real witch, and TO zoon osorRe got to un, he did FAY, do knav what thee Dist cwoms var; thy zlster be overlooked by the neishb3r as do live next door. I'll tell Zee whzt 10 do, an twont cost thee no mvors than penny. Zoo her told un to goo vnosm sn goo to the blsek.nith an get new nail, an not 10 let thick nail out of hers hand ill herd a Feed un made Q track. then her were to take Aa nail down the track. Zoo George did as her wsr twold an when her zssd the man make s track, her took ths nail in one hand sa the hanmsr tn t'otnsr, an a-nailed down the track And the man did go linplng From that time, and Georgs's sister she got we'll. <one time artsr that, the man wer took Very bad, an Gsorse's wife did work For e . Ie-dy, an sae twold her missus he wsTtIl. Zoo her rnisEus slsd her s rhAbbut to teske to the man, but when she got to his house some man ouIzlds the door twold her hs wsr dead. fnen sue did offer to ROO an help lay un out. and wash un, because shs wanted to look ". thsr or no there wsr anything vi his TOOt. Zoo she went and helped lay un Uuf, An zhure enough there wer place right under his root, as if 10 bs nail had been hsmmsred into nn- An this John Ter son old As it were cer- tain true"
 This story dates from some time back. will now gtve an instance of last nurunn. The wives of the lAoorers living in two Ad- !OiniGg cottages in the village were not on frisndly terms The younger woman, who had been brought up in a large uIning village some i've miles of, where shs had been In service before her marriage, thought herself oFerloHktd- Why, wAs noi able to dincoser. So .hs went 10 con suit planet ruler lthe name now s!rsn 10 white witchesl :n Bristol The expert gave an ''opinion"-wnichi in any other proies- sion would have cont.ddered vague, IL was to the effect that the overlooked wo- man was to go home and and look out of her house, and she would then zee the witch go up the road. Wh-ther thls stayed the oegitching, or sAtiEaed the woman, do not know, for it does not do to tr aire of ihs yosnger people; they are greatly
 afraid of bs,nz laughed at. and are sshsm- cd of their bsliet--,hs 0nlyhoPetEl sign about them h this retpsct IL seems strange that the astrolosers should live
 in towns like Bristol, Andnot on the "blAsted heaths" sn the top Of Nsndip; but such is the fac. ss may proved by the Saturday editions cf one of the local papers where advertisements of planet rulers are sometimes to be seen.
 or cSurse the suAl belief in the efficacy of nightshade planted to keep of witches Is held. And some years ago. the squsrs O. the parish waged 6 doubtful war with his gardener on the subject. The squire objected to his gooseberry bushes, of whieh his children had the run, being protected by this deadly berry. The hsofFending plant was uproo.ed, but only to be set again The witch Is sometimes spoken of ss the ''enemys." and many are uhs tales I have been told by enc old woman, ss to the do- ngs of her 'epemye" next door. How ever, she had 6 protector in her cat, who came and told her when the witch was st hand, and who 1t was who had blasted the potatoes or prevented her foEls from lay inc