E. S. TAYLOR.

_Superstition in Devonshire; Valentine's Day_ (Vol. v., pp. 55.

148.).--This, according to Forby, vol. ii. p. 403., once formed in Norfolk

a part of the superstitious practices on _St. Mark's Eve_, not St.

Valentine's, as mentioned by J. S. A., when the sheeted ghosts of those who

should die that year (Mrs. Crowe would call them, I suppose,

_Doppelgängers_) march in grisly array to the parish church.

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