Parcy

'I'se haud ye a wager ye winna walk doon the burn the morrow nicht at the deid hour, past the stane where "Parcy" was slain, and up on beyond the kirkyaird, and on tae the manse.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

I aince thocht I caught a keek o '"Parcy" mysel', but I wasna muckle gliffed, for though

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

'Na, na, I'm awa,' replied the ancient herd, rising as he spoke; 'it's gettin' late, an 'I dinna want to run the risk o' meetin 'wi'"Parcy" on my way hame. '[

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

[Footnote: 1 'Parcy Reed,' the hero of the well-known ballad, was foully slain in Bakinghope above Catcleugh Lough, but his wraith is said to haunt the Rede and to be visible about Rochester.]

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

'Parcy, the ghost o' the murdered mosstrooper, d 'ye mean, that the old wives talked of?

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

"Ye're loaded, are ye, Parcy?" asked the genial host in the burring Northumbrian voice we know so well even to-day.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

German Army at the Canal de la Marne au Rhin, in the forest of Parcy, near Luneville.

The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

Any belated horseman riding out of the dark would take the heart out of the most valiant of Northumbrians because they feared that they saw "Parcy Reed."

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

It is a fact that Parcy was not always so spelled, for

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

Giraudat J, Hauge BM, Valon C, Smalle J, Parcy F, et al. (1992) Isolation of the Arabidopsis-Abi3 Gene by Positional Cloning.

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