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middle of the school, the boys standing round trembhng with 

 fear, and do what they would, they could not get rid of their 

 terrible visitor. They repeated the Lord's prayer forwards, said 

 the Apostle's Creed, and read various passages of Scriptures, but 

 all to no purpose. They then set him various tasks to perform, 

 but he did them all. At last a happy thought struck Mr. Wilson, 

 who told him to knit knots out of a strike of sand." This feat 

 was beyond even his power, so that he had to retire baffled. The 

 narrator of this story said that the Devil came up through the 

 hearthstone, which ever afterwards showed the cracks he had 

 made in coming through. She said she had seen them, and that 

 though the stone was several times replaced by a new one, it was 

 of no avail, for the cracks always reappeared in the same place 

 as on the old one. 



Messrs. Harland & Wilkinson give a somewhat similar story of 

 the raising of the Devil at Burnley Grammar School, but there 

 he did not get so far, for when he had got his head and shoulders 

 through the hearthstone, the boys beat him down with the 

 poker which left a black mark on the stone. The feature of 

 making a rope of sand appears in the legend of the Cockerham 

 Schoolmaster and the Devil, and at Hothersall Hall, near Eib- 

 chester, there is a demon laid under a laurel tree until he can 

 make a rope of sand that can be washed in the river. 



In Cornwall, the Giant Tregeagle is said to be employed on 

 the shore near Padstow, in making " trusses of sand, and ropes 

 of sand with which to bind them. 



Apkonful and the Devil's Footprints on Pendle. 



On a farm called Craggs, near Sabden, on the sloping side of 

 Pendle, is a mass of sandstone rocks which have fallen down 

 from the scar above. On one of these big stones, are two marks, 

 side by side, about 2 feet 6 inches long, and about 6 inches wide. 

 They resemble gigantic footmarks and are said to be those of the 

 Devil. However, when he alighted upon the stone, he must 

 have crossed his legs, for the left footprint is on the right side of 

 the stone. The outline of this foot is quite perfect, but the other 

 is iU-formed. This is accounted for, by the well-known fact, that 

 the Devil has a club-foot. 



About a mile from this spot, nearer Clitheroe, and on the crest 

 of the hill above Ashendean Clough, not far from the Well 

 Springs public house, are a quantity of stones scattered about on 

 ground, locally known as ' The Apronful.' Nearly in the centre 

 of them is a small hollow in the ground, and the writer is in- 

 clined to think that these stones were formerly built into a rude 

 wall round the hollow as a base for a beacon fire, and that they 

 have since been scattered about as they now lie. 



