See also Polack's New Zealand for the prevalence of the belief.
{92} Gurney, Phantasms, ii., 6.
{93} The late Surgeon-Major Armand Leslie, who was killed at the battle of El Teb, communicated the following story to the Daily Telegraph in the autumn of 1881, attesting it with his signature.
{95a} This is a remarkably difficult story to believe.

"The morning bright and calm" is lit by the rays of the moon.

The woman (a Mrs.
Gamp) must have rushed past Dr.Leslie.

A man who died in Greece or Russia "that morning" would hardly be arrayed in evening dress for burial before 4 a.m.

The custom of using goloshes as "hell-shoes" (fastened on the Icelandic dead in the Sagas) needs confirmation.