Ghosts in Mines.
On referring to one of my scrap-books for 1876, containing my contributions to the Weekly Chronicle in the above year, I find that I wrote at least half a dozen articles on this subject, entitled "Miners' Superstitions and Traditions." Most interesting notes on the same subject, supplementary to mine, were also written by W P S, South Durham; and G. Halliwell, Seaham Harbour. If U V, Houghton, can gain access to the file of the Weekly Chronicle for 1876, the earlier months of the year, he will find ample details about "Ghosts in Mines" in Northumberland, Durham, North-East Lancashire, Devonshire, Cornwall, &c., including the Northern "Cutty Soams," "Blue Cap" (the spectral hewer), the "Seven Whistlers," and other supposed "uncanny" disembodied denizens of mines.
H. Kerr, Bacup, Lancashire.
Newcastle Chronicle, 6th February 1886.
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