Note 7 — Chapter V · NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL. (LEFT INN-BANK.)
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Nork (Mythologie der Volksagen, vol. ix. p. 83) gives other significations to horse-shoes found in the walls of old churches, but does not mention this instance. Concerning the origin of the superstition about vampires, see Cox’s Mythology of the Aryan Nations, vol. i. p. 363; also p. 63 and p. 429.