corroborated by the peasantry. Many of the stories converged towards one central fact, which Mr. Paehley believed had given origin to them all. On one occasion a man of some note was buried at St. George’s Church at Kalikrati, in the island of Crete. An arch or canopy was built over his grave. But he soon afterwards made his appearance as a vampire, haunting the village, and destroying men and children. A shepherd was one day tending his sheep and goats near the church, and on being caught in a shower, went under the arch and took shelter from the rain. He determined to pass the night there, laid aside his arms, and stretched himself on a stone to sleep. In placing his firearms down (gentle shepherds of pastoral poems do not want firearms ; but the Cretans are not gentle shepherds), he happened to cross them. Now this crossing was always believed to have the effect of preventing a vampire from emerging from the spot where the emblem was found. Thereupon occurred a singular debate. Tim vampire rose in the night, and requested the shepherd to remove the firearms in order that he might pass, as he had some important business to transact. The shepherd, inferring from this request that the corpse was the identical vampire which had been doing so much mischief, at first refused his assent ; but on obtaining from the vampire a promise on oath that he would not hurt him, the shepherd moved the crossed arms. The vampire, thus enabled to rise, went to a distance of about two miles, and killed two persons, a man and a woman. On his return, the shepherd saw some indication of what had occurred, which caused

the vampire to threaten him with similar fate if divulged what he had seen. He courageously told all, however. The priest and other persons came to the spa next morning, took up the corpse (which in day time was as lifeless as any other) and burnt it. While burning, a little spot of blood spirted on the shepherd’s foot, which instantly withered away ; but otherwise no evil resulted, and the vampire was effectually destroyed. This was certainly a very peculiar vampire story ; for the coolness with which the corpse and shepherd carried their conversation under the arch was unique enough. Nevertheless, the persons who narrated the affair to Mr. Pashley firmly believed in its truth, although slightly differing in their versions of it.     Modern vampires in Western Europe seldom trouble society, so far as narratives tell ; but across the Atlantic something of the kind has occupied public attention within the limits of the present generation. In 1854 The Times gave an extract from an American newspaper, the Norwich Courier, concerning an event that had just occurred. Horace Bry, of Griswold, died of consumption in 1816; two of his children afterwards died of the same complaint ; eight years afterwards, in 1851, a third died. The neighbors, evidently having the vampire theory in their thoughts, determined to exhume the bodies of the first two children, and burn them ; under the supposition that the dead had been feeding on the living. In what state the bodies were really found we are not told ; but they wore disinterred and burned un the 8th of June in the above-named year.     All the stories of vampires, ghouls, and were-wolves, we