Strange survivals : some chapters in the history of man (1892)
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 · London : Methuen & Co. · leaf 263
, is a tomb, built up to the height of about fivefeet, with a slate slab let into the south face, onwhich is an inscription. In this slab is a hole, and it used to be saidamong the villageboys that any onewho looked inthrough this holeand knocked atthe slate wouldsee the dead manwithin open… … F/g. 43.—HOLED TOMBSTONE, P.URGHEAD. itJicUs T/w rast an.i the tnsjnt.) (From Mit, HOLES. 253 same condition. Whether boys still knock and lookin I do not know.^ Curiously enough, a somewhat similar practiceexists at Burghead, about nine miles from Elgin,which is described by Professor Mitchell in…
Manners and customs · Superstition
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