The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them.

The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

The open, obvious, democratic thing is to believe an old apple-woman when she bears testimony to a miracle, just as you believe an old apple-woman when she bears testimony to a murder.

The plain, popular course is to trust the peasant's word about the ghost exactly as far as you trust the peasant's word about the landlord.

Being a peasant he will probably have a great deal of healthy agnosticism about both.