9Ibid., 143.

10“It is customary yet in some parts of the north of England to place a plate filled with salt on the stomach of a corpse after death.” Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions and Folklore (London, 1872), 181; see also Lowry C. Wimberly, Death and Burial Lore in the English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Lincoln, Neb., Univ. of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature and Criticism, no. 8, 1927).

11 William Rollinson, Life and Tradition in the Lake District (London, 1974), 56.