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there is one knowl famous for the cure of 

 hooping cough. The child suffering must 

 be taken up on the knowl, or hill, and laid 

 down in a place where sheep have been 

 folded. The corresponding terms to knap 

 and knowl for rising-ground are coombe and 

 cleeve for hollows. Another kind of hollow 

 in the hills is called a pan. They are 

 greatly afraid of being " overlooked," that, 

 is, of the evil eye. To be overlooked is to 

 receive a glance from some one who pos- 

 sesses the power of the evil eye, and is the 

 cause of all kinds of mischief. A person 

 overlooked succeeds in nothing, but is met 

 with constant disappointment ; whatever he 

 or she does fails ; they cannot get on, and 

 are sometimes overtaken with worse mis- 

 fortunes. 



The wise woman of the hamlet is regarded 

 with reverence and fear, and resorted to in 

 difficulty. Much wood is burned in these 



