Once more, the uprising of the thrawn corpse from the coffin in 'Ill-Steekit Ephraim' was narrated to the writer and his companion by a bed-ridden but very intelligent moorland 'wife' some years ago when walking along the Roman Wall beside Hot Bank farm or cottage. Finally, he can still remember his early thrills over strawberries and cream when told of the appearances of 'the Silky' or 'little grey lady' at Denton Hall, which suggested the harsher variant of 'In my Lady's Bedchamber.' In conclusion, it might perhaps be mentioned that the altar to Sylvanus alluded to in 'Apud Corstopitum' is preserved at Stanhope Rectory on the Wear, and that the writer possesses an altar dedicated--Deo (Mithras), by L. Sentius Castus of the 6th Legion, which was formerly excavated at Rutchester Camp, North Wylam, and is now at Otterburn. * * * * * Sir Walter Scott once said that no one had made more use of ghosts than himself, but that he did not believe in them. Another authority expressed his disbelief in them, 'because he had seen too many of them.' Professor George Sinclair wrote his book, _Satan's Invisible World Discovered_, to prove 'against the Saducees and Atheists of the present age, that there are Devils, Spirits, Witches, and Apparitions, from Authentic Records, Attestation of Famous Witnesses, and undoubted Verity,' but as, _inter alia_, he includes in them an account of the 'Strange Pranks plaid by the Devil at Woodstock in England, anno 1649,' it is evident that he simply accepted without any investigation the common hearsay, for it is well known that the Woodstock Devil was none other than the Commissioners' clerk, Giles Sharp,[2] who played these tricks upon his masters. Modern investigation proceeding on scientific lines and by means of actual experience and experiment, seems to provide an explanation--mental and moral--for manifestations which our ancestors regarded as physical and material. One need only mention in this connection the writings of William James, the psychologist, the proceedings of the Psychical Research Society, the wonderful results of psycho-therapeusis dealing with the unconscious self, the subliminal 'consciousness,' or as Captain Hadfield prefers to call it, 'heightened personality' in his paper on this subject 'The Mind and the Brain' in _Immortality_, to realise not only the greatness of the advance in psychical knowledge, but also the vast new field of investigation thus opened out to the student. OTTERBURN TOWER NORTHUMBERLAND _April 1919_ [Footnote 1: _Demonology and Witchcraft._ Letter x.] [Footnote 2: Readers of _Woodstock_ will remember Sir Walter Scott's account of 'Joseph Collins, commonly called Funny Joe--who, under the feigned name of Giles Sharp, hired himself as a servant to the Commissioners.' 'The account of this by the Commissioners themselves, or under their authority, was repeatedly published....'