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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Nice older book in good condition. Year 1895. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The following pages are intended as a simple record of facts gathered under varying circumstances from many sources during many years. They are put forward merely as typical and by no means as exhaustive of the subject. Long ago while noting the peculiarities of my native dialect I became fully aware that the belief in a personal evil influence was not only prevalent but almost universal. Familiarity with the modes of thought of country-folk convinced me that every obscure ailment and every unaccountable misfortune was habitually considered to be a “wisht thing.” At the same time I have known ever since I can remember one or more persons whose business it was to discover the witch or in other words the possessor of the evil eye. For very many years jottings on this subject have been made side by side with others on dialect one result is that my note-books have attained such a plethoric condition as to be by no means the least curious fact I have had to deal with. (SP)