tasm of a
horse, though, whether the real spirit of the horse or merely
an Elemental I cannot say. (On the soil in the cave being
excavated, and the several skeletons, presumably of
prehistoric animals, found being burnt, there were no longer
any disturbances.)

_Case No. 3._--A house in London containing an oak chest,
attached to which was the phantasm of an old woman, who used
to disturb the inmates of the place nightly. (On the chest
being burnt she was seen no more.)

_Case No. 4._--A tree in Ireland, haunted every night by a
Vagrarian. (Immediately after the tree had been burnt the
manifestations ceased.)

Burial is a great mistake. As long as a single bone remains, the spirit
of the dead person may still be attracted to it, and consequently remain
earthbound; but when the corpse is cremated, and the ashes scattered
abroad, then the spirit is set free. And, for this reason alone, I
advocate cremation as the best method possible of dealing with a corpse.

Before concluding this chapter on the werwolf in Belgium, let me add
that werwolfery was not the only form of lycanthropy in that country.
According to Grimm, in his "Deutsche Sagen," two warlocks who were
executed in the year 1810 at Liege for having, under the form of
werwolves, killed and eaten several children, had as their colleague a
boy of twelve years of age. The boy, in the form of a raven, consumed
those portions of the prey which the warlocks left.

WERWOLVES IN THE NETHERLANDS

Cases of werwolves are of less frequent occurrence in Holland than in
either France or Belgium. Also, they are almost entirely restricted to
the male sex.

Exorcism here is seldom practised, the working of a spell being the
usual means employed for getting rid of the evil property. The procedure
in working the spell is as follows:--

First of all, a night when the moon is in the full is selected. Then at
twelve o'clock the werwolf is seized, securely bound, and taken to an
isolated spot. Here, a circle of about seven feet in diameter is
carefully inscribed on the ground, and in the exact centre of it the
werwolf is placed, and so fastened that he cannot possibly get away.
Then three girls--always girls--come forward armed with ash twigs with
which they flog him most unmercifully, calling out as they do so:--

"Greywolf ugly, greywolf old,
Do at once as you are told.
Leave this man and fly