The tinkler-gypsies . lding purposes ! There is also a furthertradition about a Gypsy killing a woman nearKirkdale Ikidge. At 12 oclock at night, it issaid, the ghost of a woman with half of herhead cut off, and all clad in white, appears atKirkdale Bridge and slowly wends its way alongthe road and disappears by the wooded path-way leading to Kirkdale Bank. This apparitionis firmly believed in by some folks in that local-ity. A farmer told the writer that he knew afarmer who at any time he had to pass KirkdaleBridge after darkness had set in, used regularlyto put his horse to the gallop, lest
The tinkler-gypsies . lding purposes ! There is also a furthertradition about a Gypsy killing a woman nearKirkdale Ikidge. At 12 oclock at night, it issaid, the ghost of a woman with half of herhead cut off, and all clad in white, appears atKirkdale Bridge and slowly wends its way alongthe road and disappears by the wooded path-way leading to Kirkdale Bank. This apparitionis firmly believed in by some folks in that local-ity. A farmer told the writer that he knew afarmer who at any time he had to pass KirkdaleBridge after darkness had set in, used regularlyto put his horse to the gallop, lest he shouldbe caught by the ghost. There is also a fieldon a farm not far from Barholm Castle knownas Little Egypt, but when asked why it wasso called, the farmer said, Because it is a dry,barren place. Mr David MacRitchie, in Notesand Queries, Gypsy Lore Journal, vol. i. , shows that Egypt is a place name inmany districts frequented by Gypsies ; and surelyit is not without significance that we should •pORTANFERf?. Garsluiblv dirk hattericks cave: *GAUG E RS L O U P^ l^iglon Bay G/fV AIa}inering^ Localities. i 13 have The Oypsy Weil, The Gypsy Burn at Carsluith, and Little Egypt near Mossyard, and the coincidence should not be so readily accepted as accounted for by the farmers simple and quite natural explanation, especially when that particular field is situated in a district which, in the days when Billy Marshall and his numerous gang held sway, must have been greatly frequented by Gypsies, and which to this day is a place where Gypsies, Tinklers, and vagrants still Most do congregate. The descriptions of local places are not quiteaccurate, but are in most cases sufficientlyaccurate to be recognisable, and are preciselywhat one would expect to find where such hadfirst been accurately described by some one whoknew the locality thoroughly, to another who didnot and who had afterwards described them frommemory. Here, then, in this comparatively iso-
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