[51] They are found, for instance, on tombstones near Inverness. [52] The majority of these vessels, which abound in the West of England, were unquestionably measures of corn. But all were not so; those that have rounded hollows like cups, and not square cut, were for holy water. [53] “Heimskringla,” Saga III., c. 8. * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by ~tildes~. Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original unless noted below. Caption Fig. 17, “BO H” changed to “BO’H”. Page 130, comma changed to period after “the stick of the umbrella.” Page 173, period added after “a dancing or jumping mania.” Page 210, “th” inserted in “they” (“they do not wholly agree”). Ads section, punctuation and format regularized. Note 35, single quotation mark changed to double after “Fretella.” Original scans of this book can be found here: https://archive.org/details/strangesurvivals00bari. End of Project Gutenberg's Strange Survivals, by Sabine Baring-Gould