tion with, will be much
appreciated by

KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE.

[Our correspondent is certainly mistaken in supposing this poem to be
in Stowe's handwriting. We have the best possible authority for
assuring him that it is not.]

[Footnote 1: _Blason_, describe.]

[Footnote 2: We have here an instance of the use of the word _prayers_ as a
dissyllable.]

* * * * *

FOLK LORE.

_Moths called Souls._--While I am upon this subject, I may as well mention
that in Yorkshire the country-people used in my youth, and perhaps do
still, call night-flying white moths, especially the _Hepialus humuli_,
which feeds, while in the grub state, on the roots of docks and other
coarse plants, "souls." Have we not in all this a remnant of "Psyche?"

F. S.

[This latter paragraph furnishes a remarkable coincidence with the
tradition from the neighbourhood of Truro (recorded by MR. THOMS in his
Folk lore of Shakspeare, _Athenaeum_ (No. 1041.) Oct. 9. 1847) which
gives the name of _Piskeys_ both to the _fairies_ and to _moths_, which
are believed by many to be _departed souls_.]

_Holy Water for the Hooping Cough_ (vol. iii., p. 179.).--In one of the
principal towns of Yorkshire, half a century ago, it was the practice for
persons in a respectable class of life to take their children, when
afflicted with the hooping cough, to a neighbouring convent, where the
priest allowed them to drink a small quantity of holy water out of a silver
chalice, which the little sufferers were strictly forbidden to touch. By
Protestant, as well as Roman Catholic parents, this was regarded as a
remedy. Is not the superstition analogous to that noticed by MR. WAY?

EBORACOMB.

_Daffy Down Dilly._--At this season, when the early spring flowers are
showing themselves, we hear the village children repeating these lines:--

"Daff a down dill has now come to town,
In a yellow petticoat and a green gown."

Does not this nursery rhyme throw light upon the character of the royal
visitor alluded to in the snail charm recorded by F. J. H. (p. 179.)?

EBORACOMB.

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DR. MAITLAND'S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING TO MESMERISM.

I know more than one person who would second the request that I am about to
make through "NOTES AND QUERIES" to DR. MAITLAND, that he would publish the
remaining parts of his _Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmer