Ghosts, bogies, and the supernatural generally have utterly vanished from this commonplace district before schools and newspapers. Even an old lady more than ninety years old said to us, Fairies and shag-boys! lasses are often skeart at them, but I never saw none, though I have passed many a time after dark a most terrible spot for them on the road at Thorpe.

Mandrakes were sometimes considered in the light of familiars. Witches kept both male and female specimens of the magic root in bottles[.]

If you are not careful, you can fall into a trap of focusing too much on getting more loans instead of paying off other bills.

On sighting their prey, they check their flight and hurtle in a headlong dive to the sea.