Note 51 — 272
Reading edition
Mr W. E. A. Axon, in his Lancashire Gleanings, p. 261, speaks of the story of the Spectre Bridegroom as having been current in the neighborhood of Liverpool in the last century, both in an oral and a printed form. But it is plain that what was current, either way, was simply ‘The Suffolk Miracle.’ Of this I have a copy learned in the north of Ireland in 1850 (and very much changed as to form), in which the scene is laid “between Armagh and County Clare.”