Feinberg/Whitman   Notes and Notebooks   Notes -- Literary   Undated Superstitions of 
 Box 40 Folder 35                              Long Island1051
Superstitions of Long Island: prose. A. MS. (1p. 16 x 20 cm.)
Written in pencil of a sheet of lined paper, from a notebook, torn
off at the top, 116 words:
Superstitions were rife.--
The nightmare upon horses
Sometimes the farmers find their horses all fagged out and covered
with sweat in the morning--their man tangled and tied in knots,--
although they have been tied up in the stable, and the doors cer-
tainly locked close all night.-- Then the farmers think the horses
have been ridden at night by some spook or bad ghost.-- their manes
they cannot untie, but they have to cut the knots,-- and take some
of the hairs and draw them through the rails splints on the fence,
and there the ghosts will ride the rails, instead of the horses
Superstitions of Long Island   --the horse=shoe over
-- the negros--                                          the doorSuperstitions were rife. -- 
The nightmare upon horses
Sometimes the farmers find their horses all fagged out and
covered with sweat in the morning -- their mane tangled
and tied in knots, -- although they have been tied
up in the stable, and the doors certainly locked close
all night. -- Then the farmers think the horses have
been ridden at night by some spook or bad
ghost. -- their manes they cannot untie, but they
have to cut the knots, - and take some of
the hairs and draw them through the rails splints on 
the fence, and then the ghosts will ride
rails, instead of the horses

Superstitions of Long Island  --     the horse-shoe over
 -- the negros --                                        the door