Note 1 — The Spectre Laundresses.
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It is in the Black Month,1 as they call November, that they especially attach themselves to this pious duty. When the Messenger of Winter2 arrives, each one bethinks himself of those who are gone to the judgment-seat of God. Masses are said for them at the altar of the Dead; in their behalf are tapers kindled, and vows made to saints in highest veneration; little children are taken to offer their innocent prayers upon the grave-stones; and after Vespers the priest comes out of church to bless the earth to which their dust has been committed.