FOLK LORE.

_Moths called Souls._--While I am upon this subject, I may as well mention

that in Yorkshire the country-people used in my youth, and perhaps do

still, call night-flying white moths, especially the _Hepialus humuli_,

which feeds, while in the grub state, on the roots of docks and other

coarse plants, "souls." Have we not in all this a remnant of "Psyche?"

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