Death-Coach
There is a widespread superstitious belief that death goes round in a coach picking up souls. The form of the belief varies, of course, with the locality. In some parts of England and Wales the death-coach passes silently at midnight, without sound of hoof or wheels. Both coach and horse are black, and a black hound runs in front. In some localities the horses and coachman are headless, which doubtless adds to the effectiveness of the apparition. The Breton peasant hears the approach at midnight of a cart with a creaking axle. It is the Ankon death- and when the cart stops before a dwelling someone within must die..