Crossword-Solution: FOOTSTONES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

There are stretches of unbroken woodland around it and slashes where the cypress knees rise countlessly like headstones and footstones for the dead snags that rot in the soft ooze.

Show me a mortal man, and I’ll stand before him with whatever weapons, but not the spirits that thump on the footstones by night or twist the neck of a sleeping man with a hand not seen.” My mother turned pale, and I could see the fringe of her sleeve barely aquiver in the candlelight.

The head and footstones of her grave are some distance from each other, and of three persons, who successively attempted to open the grave to see what the bones were like, each died mad! Very likely this was the fate awaiting them at any rate.