THE EVIL EYE;

OR, THE BLACK SPECTOR

By William Carleton

CONTENTS

PREFACE.    

CHAPTER I.   Short and Preliminary

CHAPTER II.   A Murderer's Wake and the Arrival of a Stranger

CHAPTER III.   Breakfast next morning

CHAPTER IV.   Woodward meets a Guide

CHAPTER V.   The Bonfire—The Prodigy

CHAPTER VI.   Shawn-na-Middogue

CHAPTER VII.   A Council of Two

CHAPTER VIII.   A Healing of the Breach

CHAPTER IX.   Chase of the White Hare

CHAPTER X.   True Love Defeated

CHAPTER XI.   A Conjurer's Levee

CHAPTER XII.   Fortune-telling

CHAPTER XIII.   Woodward is Discarded from Mr. Goodwin's Family  

CHAPTER XIV.   Shawn-na-Middogue Stabs Charles Lindsay

CHAPTER XV.   The Banshee.  

CHAPTER XVI.   A House of Sorrow

CHAPTER XVII.   Description of the Original Tory

CHAPTER XVIII.   The Toir, or Tory Hunt

CHAPTER XIX.   Plans and Negotiations

CHAPTER XX.   Woodward's Visit to Ballyspellan

CHAPTER XXI.   The Dinner at Ballyspellan

CHAPTER XXII.   History of the Black Spectre

CHAPTER XXIII.     Greatrakes at Work—Denouement

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List of Illustrations

Frontispiece
Titlepage
Page 631— The Gaze Was Long and Combative
Page 652— I Will Follow It Until Morning
Page 697— One Long, Dark, Inexplicable Gaze
Page 736— Shawn-na-middogue, Your Mother's Victim
Page 774— Kiss You for the Sake of Our Early Love

PREFACE.

There is very little to be said about this book in the shape of a preface. The superstition of the Evil Eye is, and has been, one of the most general that ever existed among men. It may puzzle philosophers to ask why it prevails wherever mankind exists. There is not a country on the face of the earth where a belief in the influence of the Evil Eye does not prevail. In my own young days it was a settled dogma of belief. I have reason to know, however, that, like other superstitions, it is fast fading out of the public mind. Education and knowledge will soon banish those idle and senseless superstitions: indeed, it is a very difficult thing to account for their existence at all. I think some of them