2. A young person frequently stirs the fire with the poker to test the humour of a lover. If the fire blaze brightly, the lover is _good-humoured_; and _vice versa_. 3. A crooked sixpence, or a copper coin with a hole through, are accounted _lucky_ coins. 4. Cutting or paring the nails of the hands or feet on a Friday or Sunday, is very unlucky. 5. If a person's _left_ ear burn, or feel hot, somebody is _praising_ the party; if the _right_ ear burn, then it is a sure sign that some one is speaking evil of the person. 6. Children are frequently cautioned by their parents not to walk _backwards_ when going an errand; it is a sure sign that they will be unfortunate in their objects. 7. Witchcraft, and the belief in its reality, is not yet exploded in many of the rural districts. The writer is acquainted with parties who place full credence in persons possessing the power to bewitch cows, sheep, horses, and even those persons to whom the witch has an antipathy. One respectable farmer assured me that his horse was {56} _bewitched into the stable through a loophole twelve inches by three_; the _fact_ he said was beyond doubt, for he had locked the stable-door himself when the horse was in the field, and had kept the key in his pocket. Soon after this, however, a party of farmers went through a process known by the name of "_burning the witch out_," or "_killing the witch_," as some express it; the person suspected soon died, and the neighbourhood became free from his evil doings. 8. A horse-shoe is still nailed behind many doors to counteract the effects of witchcraft: a _hagstone_ with a hole through, tied to the key of the stable-door, protects the horses, and, if hung up at the bed's head, the farmer also. 9. A hot iron put into the cream during the process of churning, expels the witch from the churn; and dough in preparation for the baker is protected by being marked with the figure of a cross. 10. Warts are cured by being rubbed over with a black snail, but the snail must afterwards be impaled upon a hawthorn. If a bag containing as many small pebbles as a person has warts, be tossed over the _left_ shoulder, it will transfer the warts to whoever is unfortunate enough to pick up the bag. 11. If black snails are seized by the horn and tossed over the _left_ shoulder, the process will insure _good luck_ to the person who performs it. 12. Profuse bleeding is said to be instantly stopped by certain persons who pretend to possess the secret of a certain form of words which immediately act as a charm. 13. The power of bewitching, producing evil to parties by _wishing_ it, &c., is supposed to be transmitted from one possessor to another when one of the parties is about to die. The writer is in possession of full particulars respecting this supposed transfer.