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the same means, that there was no water below. 

 This I think would be proof. That Lady Noel 

 should find her fingers hurt by the stick is all in 

 favour of my views. The harder you grasp the 

 stick to prevent its turning, the more it will turn ; 

 till it breaks to pieces, to the serious inconveni- 

 ence of the hand that holds it. I should like to 

 see this matter decided by the experiments and 

 acknowledgments of those who do not allow that 

 the whole effect is produced unintentionally by the 

 holder. It is my conviction that this is the case. 

 A Somersetshire Incumbent. 



Second Exhumation of King Arthur s Remains 

 (Vol. v., pp. 490. 598. ; Vol. vi., pp. 65. 68.).— An 

 account of this exhumation is to be found in the 

 Histories of Glastonbury by Adam de Domerham 

 and John of Glastonbury, published by the inde- 

 fatigable Hearne (these works are full of interesting 

 information ; and as they are not to be purchased 

 for less than five guineas each, I have prepared a 

 translation of them with a view to publication). 

 The second exhumation took place in presence of 

 King Edward I. and his Queen Eleanor, both of 

 whom assisted in the reinterment of the bones. It 

 is singular that Miss Strickland has overlooked 

 the presence of Queen Eleanor on this interesting 

 occasion. The first exhumation took place either 

 in the last year of Henry II., or the first of 

 Richard I. ; it is somewhat doubtful which, but 

 most probably the former. Henet T. Kiley. 



Norfolk Superstition (Vol. x., p. 88.).- — I be- 

 lieve there is no superstition more prevalent, or 

 more deeply-rooted, in the minds of the people of 

 Norfolk, than the " limp corpse." In the city of 

 Norwich it is as firmly believed as in the lone 

 village. The "warning" has very recently oc- 

 curred in my own family ; and whether fulfilled or 

 not (barring myself being the "destined"), you 

 will learn, when the given time expires, the failing 

 or fulfilment of the omen. Henry Daveney. 



The Rev. A. Sutton is respectfully informed, 

 that a similar opinion is recorded by Grose, the 

 author of Military Antiquities and other reput- 

 able works. In his collection of Superstitions, 

 p. 48., is the following item : 



" If the neck of a dead child remains flexible for seve- 

 ral hours after its decease, it portends that some person in 

 that house will die in a short time." 



C. H. (1) 



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Moon's Influence (Vol.x., p. 8.). — It is a very 

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 of Devonshire, to gather in the hoard fruit at the 

 " shrinking of the moon." I should also add the 

 reason given for this custom, viz. that apples, 

 when bruised in the gathering in, do not decay 

 afterwards. L. De Caudeville. 



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