implement, at the bed head.

No. 3. Should a death happen in a house at night, and there be a hive or
hives of bees in the garden, go out and wake them up at once, otherwise
the whole hive or swarm will die.

I hope your Folk Lore is not confined to the fading memorials of a past
age. The present superstitions are really much more interesting and
valuable to be gathered together; and I am sure your pages would be very
well employed in recording these for a future generation. I would {294}
suggest, in all humility, that it would be really useful, for the rulers
of our Church and State, to know how far such a superstition as the
following prevails among the peasantry:

That, if a dying person sees "glory," or a bright light, at or near the
time of their dissolution, such a vision is a sure sign of their
salvation, whatever may have been their former life, or their
repentance.

D. Sholbus.

_Superstitions in North of England._--I find some curious popular
superstitions prevalent in the north of England some three centuries ago
recorded in the _Proceedings before the Special Commissioners for
Ecclesiastical Causes appointed by Queen Elizabeth_. Thus:

"Anthony Haggen presented for medicioning children with miniting
a hammer as a smythe of kynde."

Again