Sept. 16. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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practice among the respectable middle ranks in 

 this part of the west of Scotland, when a person 

 had a tooth extracted for toothache to wrap it up 

 carefully in a piece of paper, carry it home, and 

 after examining its infirmities, along with a large 

 pinch of salt to throw it into the fire. I have seen 

 this done, and think the general idea which then 

 prevailed was, that after this ceremony the person 

 would never again be troubled with toothache, 

 and it may have acted upon the imagination in the 

 light of a charm as much as such could be expected 

 to perform. The practice may have had a remote 

 superstitious or religious origin, as in so many 

 other cases where salt was concerned in expelling 

 devils and diseases; but I must leave learned 

 readers to trace the connexion farther, adding 

 only a short extract, which in its own degree may 

 once have influenced the popular belief, from Bene- 

 dictio Salis. 



" Bene>J<dic banc creaturam salis ad effugadum inimi- 

 cum, et ei salubrem medicinam immitte, vi proficial 

 sumentibus ad animas et corporis sanitatem." — Manvale 

 Exorcisnwrum, Antverpiae, 1619, p. 299. 



G.N. 



Your two surgical correspondents are referred 

 to Mr. Sternberg's Dialect and Folk-lore of Nor- 

 thamptonshire, p. 166., where the custom is noticed 

 and illustrated by a curious quotation from Sir 

 Kenelm Digby. The idea that salt has the power 

 of resisting or counteracting the injurious tenden- 

 cies of sympathetic influence is very ancient. 



C. CuFTON Barry. 



Recovery after Execiition (Vol. ix., pp. 174. 180. 

 453.). — In Notes arid Narratives of a Six Years^ 

 Mission, principally among the Dens of London, 

 by R. W. Vanderkiste, p. 7., is the following : 



" A woman also lived close by who was hung at New- 

 gate, but lived for many years afterwards. She kept 

 harbours for thieves and other bad characters for nearly 

 twenty years subsequently. This person was condemned 

 to death for passing forged 11. notes, and by some means 

 managed to introduce a silver tube into the gullet. Prison 

 regulations were at that period very lax. As many as 

 ten and even more persons would be executed at New- 

 gate at once, and the care which is now exercised was 

 not taken then. She was delivered to her friends for burial 

 immediately after the execution, and hurried home, where, 

 after considerable difficulty, she waa restored to life." 



A Subscriber. 



With reference to a recent Query as to au- 

 thentic records of persons supposed to have been 

 hanged returning to life, some of your Edinburgh 

 readers can most certainly furnish you with the 

 details of the recovery of a woman hanged there 

 about forty years since, but who was resuscitated 

 by the jolting of the cart in which her body was 

 being conveyed to Musselburgh for interment by 

 her friends. S. R. G. 



In reply to I. H. A., who states that a person of 

 great accuracy and respectability informed him 



that he had seen and recognised Fauntleroy in 

 Paris, after the supposed execution of that cri- 

 minal, I beg to state that I lately made inquiries 

 of an esteemed friend, Thomas Herring, Esq., of 

 Weybridge Heath, who assured me that he knew 

 Fauntleroy well when alive, that he witnessed 

 Fauntleroy's execution^at the Old Bailey on No- 

 vember 30, 1824, and I think that Mr. Herring 

 added that he saw the dead body after the exe- 

 cution. Mr. Herring positively asserted that he 

 saw Fauntleroy "hanged by the neck until he was 

 dead," and that there could have been no mistake 

 in the matter. G. L. S. 



Persons buried alive: Persons recovered after 

 hanging. — 



" There have been examples of some buried in the earth 

 which, notwithstanding, have lived again, which hath 

 been found in those that were buried by the bruising and 

 wounding of their head through the struggling of the 

 body within the coffin ; as of Joannes Scotus, called the 

 Subtle, and a Schoolman, who, being digged up again by 

 his servant, was found in that state ; and the like hap- 

 pened in our days, in the person of a player buried at 

 Cambridge. I have heard also of a physician yet living, 

 who recovered a man to life which had hanged half an 

 hour, by friction and hot-bath." — Bacon's Instauratio, 

 Part III. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



P.S. — In the same work Bacon mentions some 

 remarkable instances of longevity, as in the case 

 of John de Temporibus, the Countess of Desmond, 

 and some Brazilians. 



Morgan O'Doherty (Vol. x., pp.96. 150.).— 

 The memoir of Maginn, in the Dublin University 

 Magazine for January, 1844, contains a tolerably 

 extensive list of the doctor's contributions to 

 Blackwood, inserted principally upon the authority 

 and from the memoranda of Dr. Moir, the A o£ 

 Blackwood. The cantos of " Daniel O'Rourke " 

 there attributed to Maginn, were written by Mr.. 

 Samuel Gosnell of Cork. The author of the me- 

 moir (Mr. Kenealy ?) mentions that he is in pos- 

 session of a complete list of Maginn's contributions 

 to Frasers Magazine.^ which I very much wish he 

 would publish. 



A collection of Maginn's magazine articles was 

 announced for publication in America a few months: 

 ago ; has it appeared ? J. M. B. 



Burial in unconsecrated Places (Vohyiu. passim). 

 — To the instances already cited in the pages of 

 "N. & Q. " the following may be added: 



" Robert Hutton, of Houghton le Spring, in the county 

 of Durham, who was a captain in Cromwell's army, and 

 retained after the restoration his attachment to the puri- 

 tans, died in 1680, and was buried in his own orchard,, 

 where an altar tomb still records his name. There is a' 

 tradition, that on the death of a favourite charger he 

 sought the rector's permission to inter the animal in the 

 churchyard near his own intended place of rest, and that 



