She gladly made promise. The man died, but it is affirmed that the disconsolate widow, at the end of twelve months, had discovered by close observation, and to her great disappointment, that she had made a rash promise, and that there was not a day in the whole year when flowers might not be found on the prickly gorse. EDITOR’S NOTE. Other Editor’s notes on this subject will be found in Appendix A. In the Castel parish they tell another story based on the same proverb. Here is a house called Les Mourains, in that parish, belonging to the Ozannes. In the middle of the last century, a Mr. Ozanne married a young wife, who died after having given birth to two sons. On her death-bed she made her husband promise that he would never marry, “_lorsqu’il y avait des fllieurs sur l’ jan_.” He promised, but after her death he married again. But the poor spirit had not found rest. The nurse, while she dressed and undressed the children, frequently saw her late mistress watching her. The other servants, when in the evenings they stood at the back door talking to their friends and acquaintances, heard the rustling of her silk dress along the passages. And she so habitually haunted the drawing room that for years it had to be kept locked up, and finally the Rector of the parish had to be sent for, to lay the ghost, which he did, and it was boarded up in a cupboard. The place may be conjectured, for in the drawing room there is still a part boarded up, and at times strange noises are heard, as of a spirit ill at rest.[145] [145] From Miss E. Le Pelley. CHAPTER X. Witchcraft. “Had learned the art that none may name In Padua far beyond the sea.” “Tam saw an unco sight! Warlocks and witches in a dance; Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But horn pipes, gigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels: … There sat auld Nick, in shape o’ beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge.” --_Tam O’Shanter_, Burns. “Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them. For the witches themselves are imaginative, and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft.”--_Bacon._