Note 8 — A Day at Maghera, Co. Londonderry[7]
Reading edition
In "My Schools and Schoolmasters" (chap. x., pp. 222-223, ed. Oh! they're saying it's the spirit of the man that was killed on the foundation-stone just after it was laid, and then built intil the wa' by the masons, that he might keep the castle by coming back again; and they're saying that a' the verra auld houses in the kintra had murderit men builded intil them in that way, and that they have a' o' them this bogle."
In "The Study of Man," Professor Haddon gives a number of allusions to the human sacrifice in the building of bridges (pp. 347-356).