Ash tree, operation performed with | AUGUST, GULE OF, commonly called
the, to cure rickety or ruptured
children, iii, 291-2.
ASH WEDNESDAY, i, 94, 102.
in some places called Pulver
Wednesday, i, 95.
Naogeorgus's account of, i, 97.
fool-plough and sword-dance
used on, upon the Conti-
nent, i, 97, 508.
custom on, used in Germany,
i, 98.
how distinguished by the pea-
santry of France, i, 100.
LAMMAS DAY, i, 347-9.
"Au Guy l'an neuf," i, 458.
AUK, GREAT, augury by the, iii, 221.
Auld Ane, a name for the Devil, ii, 520.
Avoch, co. Ross, custom of penny
weddings retained at, ii, 148.
funeral customs at, ii, 272.
Aurengzebe, reckons Friday to be un-
lucky, ii, 50.
Auricula Judæ, iii, 283.
Avril, Poisson d', i, 139.
Austria, St. Colman and St. Leopold,
the patron saints of, i, 365.
custom of interring the car-Autumnal fire, kindled in North
nival on, at Marseilles,i,100. Wales on Allhallow Eve, i, 389.
Auxerre, l'Abbé de Liesse at, i, 504.
"A you a hinny," song of, i, 487.
Ayrshire, Beltan in, on St. Peter's
day, i, 337.
creeling in, ii, 98.
Ashes, ceremonies of blessing and
giving, on Ash Wednesday, i, 96.
Ashill, co. Somerset, yew trees at,
ii, 266.
Ashmole, Elias, hangs spiders about
his neck to cure the ague, iii, 287.
Asp, the best arrows made of, ii, 257.
Ass, vulgar error relating to the,
iii, 363.
Baal, Beal, or Bealin, remains of the
worship of, i, 228, 304.
Baal, or Bael fyr, i, 300.
Ass of wood drawn on Palm Sunday, Babies of the eyes, iii, 47.
i, 124.
Asses or mules, omens of weather,
Bacchus, verses in praise of, made by
the Eton boys on Shrove Monday,
i, 62.
Assize, maiden, white gloves given at Bacon, Dunmow flitch of, ii, 177.
a, ii, 125.
ASSUMPTION of the VIRGIN MARY,
similar custom at Whiche-
novre in Staffordshire, ii,
180.
Aston, near Birmingham, Christmas" Baculus divinatorius," iii, 332.
custom at the house of Sir
Holt, Bart., i, 472.
Astrology, remarks on, iii, 341-8.
Athenians, sacred ploughings of the,
i, 510.
cock-fighting practised by the,
ii, 59, 60.
Athens, Apollo and Minerva preside
over, i, 365.
Bairin-breac, the name of a cake made
in Ireland on St. Bridget's Eve,
i, 345.
Baldock, custom at, on Shrove Tues-
day, i, 82.
Ball, play at the, on Shrove Tuesday,
described by Fitzstephen, i, 70.
Ballikinrain, co. Stirling, yew trees
at, ii, 264.
Atkinson, Margaret, funeral feast of, Ball money at weddings, ii, 156.
Attica, old inhabitants of, buried
looking towards the east, ii, 318.
Augsburg, St. Huiderich or Ulric,
the patron saint of, i, 364.
Balmano, St. John's well at, ii, 382.
BALOON, GAME OF, ii, 394.
Balow, etymology of, i, 487.
Baltein, i, 225.
Banbury, mopor statute fair at, ii, 455.
Basoche, Roy de, i, 24.
Bassett, ii, 450.
Bassianus and Geta, first cause of
their contention, ii, 60.
Bachelors' buttons, divination by,
iii, 340.
Bats, superstition concerning, iii, 189.
Battle Edge, the place of Cuthred's
victory over Ethelbald, king of
Mercia, i, 320.
Batt's carving-knives, i, 486.
Bavaria, St. Wolfgang and St. Mary
Atingana, the patron saints of,
i, 365.
shop, Gay's description of a, Baxter, Richard, his account of the
Bargarran witches, iii, 30.
Barguest of York, iii, 86.
"Barla-bracks about the stacks,"
ii, 394.
BARLEY-BREAK, i, 180; ii, 394-6.
Barnabas, St., few churches dedicated
to, ii, 2.
tempests said to be frequent
on the day of, ii, 49.
BARNABAS DAY, ST., i, 293-4.
court for the forest of Engle-
wood kept on, i, 245.
origin of the proverb of
Barnaby Bright," i, 294.
concerning,
Barnacles, iii, 361-2.
Barrenness, foreign charms against,
enumerated by Bale, ii, 69.
Barring-out in schools, i, 441.
BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, St., i, 351.
custom on, at Croyland Abbey,
of giving little knives, i, 351.
Bartholomew baby, ii, 464.
fair, ii, 463.
Barvas, in the Isle of Lewis, custom
at, on the 1st of May, i, 226.
Basil, smelling of, iii, 314.
BASILISK, or COCKATRICE, iii, 374.
Basle, prohibition in the Synod of,
against the Feast of Fools, i, 427.
well at Oundle, ii, 369.
Bay-leaves, houses decked with, at
Christmas, i, 520.
worn against thunder, iii, 316.
Bay trees, withering of, a death
omen, iii, 233.
Bays used at weddings, ii, 119, 120.
Bead of glass, Druid's, called the
ovum anguinum, iii, 287, 369
Beaker, ii, 330.
Bean-king, i, 498.
Beans, choice of a king and queen
by, i, 26-7.
on Midlent Sunday, i, 114.
Erasmus's remarks on the re-
ligious use of, i, 115.
eating of, in Lent, allegorized,
i, 115.
Molluka, used as charms,
iii, 46.
BEAR-BAITING, ii, 396.
a Christmas sport, ii, 396.
BEARING THE BELL, iii, 393.
Bearne, or barn bishop, i, 423.
BEARS, vulgar error relating to the
cubs of, iii, 364.
Beasts eating greedily, an omen of
bad weather, iii, 245.
BEAVER, vulgar error concerning the.
iii, 368.
Beaulieu, Mary Dore, the parochial
witch of, iii, 14.
-the hall of his house strewed
every day with green rushes,
ii, 313.
Bed, bridal, anciently blessed, ii, 175.
ancient charm for the, iii, 312.
Bed's head, knocking at the, iii, 233.
Bede's well, at Jarrow, co. Northum-
berland, ii, 383.
Bedfordshire, harvest Jack and Gill
in, ii, 24.
Bedwen, the, i, 237.
Beech, at Midsummer, i, 307.
Beehives, custom of covering with
black crape, on the death of
the master or mistress, ii,
300.
superstitious practice of turn-
ing, when the corpse of the
owner is removed for burial,
ii, 301.
Bees, superstitions relating to, ii,
301-2, iii; 225.
Besom placed at the topmast-head
of a ship or boat to be sold, ii, 352.
Beggar-my-neighbour, ii, 396.
Bell, the patron of the Babylonians,|
i, 365.
to bear the, i 71; iii, 393.
passing, ii, 202-20.
capon, ii, 210.
St. Adelm's, ii, 217.
pancake, i, 82-9, ii; 220.
ringing, bequests for, ii, 225.
Belle Savage Inn, sign of the, ii,
356.
Bells, ringing of, on New Year's Eve
in London, i, 14.
on Allhallows Day, i,
394-5.
ringing of, against thunder,
ii, 217.
on the arrival of emperors.
bishops, &c. at places
under their own juris-
diction, ii, 218.
to ease the pain of the
dead, ii, 219.
funeral or dead peal, ii,
219.
invention of, ii, 212-13.
baptizing of, ii, 214-15.
custom of rejoicing with, ii,
Jews use trumpets for, ii, 213.
ceremony of blessing or con-
secrating, ii, 215.
christened in honour of St.
Wenefride, ii, 215.
given to churches by St.
Dunstan, ii, 216.
great objects of superstition,
ii, 216.
monkish rhymes on the offices
of, ii, 216.
lines on, from Googe's trans-
lation of Naogeorgus, ii,
217.
Belly-blind, ii, 397.
Beltan, on St. Peter's Day, in Ayr-
shire, i. 337.
Beltein, or Baltein Day, a name used
in Perthshire for the first day of
May, i, 226.
Bel-teing, celebration of, in Cumber-
land, i, 318.
Bealtine, La, i, 228.
Benedict, St., i, 360-1.
"Benedictio Pomorum in die Sancti
Jacobi," i, 346.
Benediction posset, ii, 173.
Benshea, or the shrieking woman,
death omen, iii, 227.
Berger, le jeu de, et de la Bergère,
i, 255.
"Berisch," ii, 295.
when women were in la- Berkeley, Maurice, fourth Lord, pre-
bour, ii, 70.
at marriages, ii, 160.
parations for the funeral feast of,
Berkeley, Robert, second Lord, bu-| Birdsney, i, 75.
ried in a monk's cowl, iii, 325.
Berking nunnery, co. Essex, custom
at, on St. Ethelburgh's Day, i,
374.
Berkshire, ring superstition in, iii,
300.
Berlin, the ringing of bells at, against
tempests, forbidden, ii, 218.
Berners, Lord, writes to Cardinal
Wolsey for cramp-rings, i, 151.
Beryl, or crystal, used by sorcerers,
iii, 60.
Birk at Yule E'en, bare as the, a
Scottish proverb, i, 467.
BIRKIE, ii, 396.
Birmingham, St. Bartholomew's cha-
pel in, not placed due east and
west, ii, 324.
BISHOP IN THE PAN, iii, 383.
Bishop's Stortford, co. Herts, custom
at, on Old Michaelmas Day, i,
372.
Bishop's well at Tottenham, co. Mid-
dlesex, ii, 369.
Bessy, one of the characters of the Bittern, iii, 222.
sword-dance, i, 513.
BETROTHING CUSTOMS, ii, 87, 98.
difference between the be-
trothing ceremony and that
of marriage pointed out,
ii, 96.
Beverage, ii, 333.
Biberidge, ii, 333.
Bible, superstitious practice of open-
ing, on New Year's Day,
i, 20.
church, weighing of witches
against the, iii, 22.
put at night under the pillows
of country girls, iii, 141.
fanning the face of the sick
with the leaves of the,
iii, 272.
"Black is your eye," the saying of,
iii, 44, 45.
BLACK USED IN MOURNING at Fu-
NERALS, ii, 281.
Black puddings, i, 400.
Monday, i, 454.
Jack, ii, 337.
lad, shooting the, ii, 441.
witches, iii, 3.
Blacks of the eyes, iii, 44-5.
BLADE-BONE, divination by the, iii,
339.
Blaise or Blaze, St., i, 360-5.
Blandy, Miss, dying declaration of,
iii, 308.
BLAZE'S DAY, ST., i, 51-3.
Minshew refers Hoc-tide
to, i, 190.
and key, divination by the, Bleeding at the nose, iii, 229.
iii, 299, 353-4.
Bid or bidder ale, ii, 90.
Biddenden cakes, i, 166.
BIDDING to weddings, Welsh practice
Billet, or tip-cat, game of, on Shrove
Tuesday, i, 91.
Billiards, ii, 354.
Birch tree, used for May-poles, i, 237.
bowes, against Midsummer, i,
poles, used anciently as signs
for alehouses, ii, 353.
Birds begin to couple on St. Valen-
tine's Day, i, 53.
divinations by, iii, 191.
of murdered persons at the
presence of the murderer,
iii, 229-30.
charm for, iii, 311.
Blenheim House, representation of
a cock at, i, 78.
Blessing fire, i, 306.
"Blood without groats," proverb of, | BORROWED, or BORROWING Days,
i, 400.
Bloody-bones, ii, 516.
Bloody Gardener, old ballad of the,
iii, 217.
BLOW POINT, ii, 398.
Blue coats, formerly worn by people
of fashion on St. George's
Day, i, 192.
clue, spell by the, on Allhallow
balls, pawnbrokers, ii, 356.
Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, sends
a hare from her bosom as an omen,
iii, 202.
Boards used instead of bells by the
Turks, ii, 214.
Boar's-head, served up at Christmas,
i, 484-5-6.
carol at bringing it in, i, 485.
Boats, sprinkling of fishermen's, to
make them prosper, i, 394.
Bogleboe explained, ii, 515.
Boh, the name of a Gothic general,
used to frighten children, ii, 515.
Bohemia, St. Winceslaus, the patron
saint of, i, 365.
death-omens peculiar to cer-
tain families of, iii, 227.
Boleyn, Anne, wore yellow mourning
for Catherine of Arragon, ii, 283.
Bombards, ii, 336.
Bonefires, i, 299.
origin and etymology of, i, 300.
on Midsummer Eve, i, 306.
canon against, on new moons,
i, 308.
Boneshave, iii, 285.
Books, by way of funeral tokens, for-
merly given away at burials in
England, ii, 244.
Booksellers' shops, how formerly
adorned on St. Bartholomew's
Boon of shearers, ii, 33.
Boossenning, iii, 295.
Borrowstowness, co. of Linlithgow,
custom at, at the burials of poor
people, ii, 210.
Boscobel, Dr. Stukeley's account of
the Royal Oak at, i, 275.
Botanomancy, iii, 307.
Bough, green, of a tree, fastened
against houses by the Irish on May
Day, i, 227.
Boughs, hallowed on Midsummer
Day, hung at the stall door where
cattle stand, to prevent witches,
i, 335.
Boulogne, St. Martin the patron
saint of, i, 364.
"Bounce buckram," proverb of, i,
490.
Bow bells, bequest for the ringing of,
ii, 224.
Bowed money given as a token of
affection from one relation to ano-
ther, ii, 94.
BOWING TOWARDS THE ALTAR, or
COMMUNION TABLE, ON ENTERING
THE CHURCH, ii, 317.
Bows and bowyers, statutes relating
to, ii, 260.
Box garlands on St. Barnabas' Day,
i, 293.
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sprigs of, substituted for palm
on Palm Sunday, 118,
120.
used at funerals, ii, 253.
BOXING, ii, 398-9.
Boy's bailiff, the, i, 284.
Boy-Bishop, custom of electing a,
i, 422-5.
traces of the history of the, as
early as 867 or 870, i, 421.
one says vespers before King
Edward I, i, 422.
ceremony of the, practised in
various cathedrals and other
churches in England, i,
422-4.
show of, abrogated by a pro-
clamation in 1542, i,
422-8.
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