_Slow-worm Superstition_ (Vol. viii., p. 33.).--The slow-worm
superstition, about which TOWER inquires, and to whom I believe no answer
has been returned, is quite common in the North of England. One of the
many uses of "N. & Q." is the abundant proof that supposed localisms are
in fact common to all England. I learn from the same Number, p. 44.,
that in Devonshire a slater is called a _hellier_. _To hill_, that is to
cover, "hill me up," _i. e._ cover me up, is as common in Lancashire as
in Wicliff's Bible. We have not, however, _hellier_ or _hillier_ for one
whose business it is to cover in a house.