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The hills are all ' knaps,' or ' knowls ; ' 

 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 misfor- 

 tunes. 



The wise woman of the hamlet is 

 regarded with reverence and fear, and re- 

 sorted to in difficulty. Much wood is burned 

 in these places, and for burning wood a 



