of Beings, which for that End render themſelves viſible. I know ſeveral that have offered to make Oath, that as they have been paſſing the Road, one of these Funerals has come behind them, and even laid the Bier on their Shoulders, as tho' to aſſiſt the Bearers. One Perſon, who aſſured me he had been ſerved ſo, told me, that the Flesh of his Shoulder had been very much bruiſed, and was black for many Weeks after.
There are few or none of them who pretend not to have ſeen or heard theſe imaginary Obſequies, (for I muſt not omit that they ſing Pſalms in the ſame Manner as thoſe do who accompany the Corps of a dead Friend) which ſo little differ from real ones, that they are not to be known 'till both Coffin and Mourners are ſeen to vanish at the Church-Doors. Theſe they take to be a ſort of friendly Demons, and their Buſineſs, they ſay, is to warn People of what is to befall them: accordingly they give notice of any Strangers Approach, by the trampling of Horſes at the Gate of the Houſe where they are to arrive. As difficult as I found it to bring myſelf to give any Faith to this, I have
