Just three nights after that my cousin died." "And you think that what you saw was his corpse candle ?" "I do, sir! what else should it be ?" "Are deaths prognosticated by any other means than corpse candles ?" "They are, sir; by the knockers, and by a supernatural voice heard at night." "Have you ever heard the knockers, or the supernatural voice ?" "I have not, sir; but my father and mother, who are now dead, heard once a supernatural voice, and knocking.

My mother had a sister who was married like herself, and expected to be confined.

Day after day, however, passed away, without her confinement taking place.

My mother expected every moment to be summoned to her assistance, and was so anxious about her that she could not rest at night.

One night, as she lay in bed, by the side of her husband, between sleeping and waking, she heard of a sudden a horse coming stump, stump, up to the door.