hout any apparent cause,
or strikes several times more that it ought to do without stopping, then
these events are certain signs of death.

A well known barrister told me he had bought an old Grandfather clock,
and his man had entire charge of it. One morning the man found the clock
had fallen down during the night and he was very much disturbed about it
and said there would be a death soon, and within a week the man's father
died.

In another case a man said he was cleaning a clock which his father had
made, and the owner told him what a good clock it was, but, said she,
"It was completely master of your father for a time. He came to clean it
one day, and after a few weeks it stopped, and he went again and
attended to it, but it was no use, so was given up as a bad job. The
owner was certain a death would soon occur, and shortly after her
husband's mother died. When she heard of the death she set the pendulum
swinging, and it had never stopped since, except to be cleaned."

It is very seldom that other kinds of clocks are credited with these
powers although at Werrington there was, in a cottage, a small wooden
Dutch clock called in this neighbourhood a "Sheep's head" clock. It was
hanging on the wall and had not been going for some years, the weights
and pendulum had been lost and the lines were wrapped round the clock.
One Sunday morning before the woman and her husband had risen from bed,
but were both wide awake, they distinctly heard this clock strike "one"
and by the next mail they received notice that their son, a soldier on
Foreign service, had died that Sunday morning, and at one o'clock.

There are several things worn as charms and amulets, which are
attributed with various powers, and one favourite is a "Lucky bone"
which is worn for good luck. This bone is taken from a sheep's head, and
is in the form of a T.

A stone with a hole through it, is worn and highly valued for its Good
Luck.

The stones that have only one large hole, are hung on bed heads, and in
stables.

Horse shoes, when found, are very lucky and should be nailed over the
threshold, or over the hearth. I have seen some at Cotterstock Hall,
Alwalton Hall, and other houses, attached to the door. They are also
nailed over stable doors. If there are any nails in the shoe, when found
by a single person, then, as many nails as there are, so many years will
it be before the marriage of that person.

Thorney men, seeing a small portion of a h