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The Vicar of Morwenstow: A Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A.

By Sabine Baring-Gould.

London: King, 1876; New York: T. Whittaker, 1876.


Chapter VI. Wellcombe.--Mr. Hawker Postman to Wellcombe.--The Miss Kitties.--Advertisement of Roger Giles.--Superstitions.--The Evil Eye.--The Spiritual Ether.--The Vicar's Pigs bewitched.--Horse killed by a Witch.--He finds a lost Hen.--A Lecture against Witchcraft.--Its Failure.--An Encounter with the Pixies.--Curious Picture of a Pixie Revel.--The Fairy-Ring.--Antony Cleverdon and the Mermaids.

 


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