. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . mps and other isolated places inthe Narragansett Country. In North Kings-town witches abode, who held their unhallowed sab-baths in Hell Hollow and Kettle Hole. Then therewas that startling apparition, near Indian Corner, ofthe negro boy who had in some unexplained way losthis head; not as people are said to do when woolgathering, but by actual decapitation. The belatedtraveller w^ho was unfortunate enough to encounter thisshocking spectre told how it had seemed to be illumin-ated by a very unwholesome and sug
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . mps and other isolated places inthe Narragansett Country. In North Kings-town witches abode, who held their unhallowed sab-baths in Hell Hollow and Kettle Hole. Then therewas that startling apparition, near Indian Corner, ofthe negro boy who had in some unexplained way losthis head; not as people are said to do when woolgathering, but by actual decapitation. The belatedtraveller w^ho was unfortunate enough to encounter thisshocking spectre told how it had seemed to be illumin-ated by a very unwholesome and suggestive blue flame,by the light of which its blind gropings and staggeringswere quite visible. Just as it reached the crest of PorkHill the fearful creature went off like a comet, with asulphurous train of fire in its wake. To match the headless negro there used to be aheadless Indian, or rather the skeleton of an Indian,who had an unfortunate habit of mislaying his headand then making life a burden to any one who chancedto find it. How this particular ghost was discovered to 346. A Budget of Legends 349 have been an Indian I cannot say, but here is one ofthe stories told about him : One summer evening a road-mender, just about topick up his tools and dinner pail, discovered a skulllying by the side of the road where he had been digging. I wonder how I managed to throw that out with-out noticinor It he asked himself. Beingf interested inoddities, like many a more learned man, he wiped theskull off on a convenient portion of his leather breeches,and tucking it under his arm, trudged away towardshome. His wife did not share his esthetic taste incurios, and when she met him at the door and dis-covered the nature of the burden he was carrying therewas a fine scene. She dared him on his life to brinethat nasty thing into her kitchen, and after one lookinto her determined face he promptly and wisely dis-claimed any intention of doing so. Instead, he stuckit upon a pole at the back of
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