passage relating to, in Ned-
ham's History of the
Rebellion, i, 530.
PILLORY, punishment of the, iii, 109." Poculum charitatis," i, 4.
Pillow stuffed with the feathers of a
dove, ii, 230.
Pills, superstitions relating to the
taking of, in equal number, iii, 267.
Pin-drinking, ii, 326.
"Poesies," nosegays so called by the
vulgar in the North of England, ii,
118.
Pine, branches of, among the signs of
death in houses, ii, 253.
Pine-apples, omens of weather, iii,
247-8.
Pinner, co. Middlesex, custom of cock-
throwing formerly made a matter
of public celebrity at, i, 80.
Pins, thrown into wells, ii, 370.
Pirva, Peruvian, ii, 21.
Pitching-pence, paid at fairs, ii, 459.
Πιθοιγιά, 1, 402.
Pius the Fifth, Pope, canonization of,
i, 405.
Pix, an it please the, i, 358.
Pixy, ii, 513.
Planets, omens from the, iii, 241.
Plantain, looking for coal under the
root of, on Midsummer Eve, i, 334.
Plate-garlands of London, i, 247.
Plays performed on Shrove Tuesday,
i, 64.
Corpus Christi, performed at
Coventry, i, 296.
Please the pigs, iii, 394.
PLEDGING, ii, 325.
Plough, leading the, about the fire,
i, 506.
Ploughings, sacred, celebrated by the
Athenians, i, 510.
of the Chinese, i, 510.
Ploughman's feasting days, as enume-
rated by Tusser, ii, 26.
PLOUGH MONDAY, i, 506-8.
Plow-boys, or morris dancers, drama
performed by, in Lincolnshire, i,
506.
Point, tying the, ii, 170.
Points given to children on Ascen-
sion Day, i, 205.
bridegroom's, ii, 128.
at weddings, ii, 130.
"Poisson d'Avril" among the French,
i, 135.
Poker, holding the, before the fire,
to drive away the witch, iii, 310.
Poland, St. Stanislaus and St. Hede-
riga the patron saints of,
i, 364.
custom in, when the Gospel is
reading, ii, 321.
Pole, barber's, ii, 358-9-60.
Pomegranate flowers used as a charm,
iii, 298.
Pome-water, i, 17.
Poor-rates of modern origin, i, 291.
Pope and Devil, figures of, formerly
burnt on the day of Queen Eliza-
beth's accession, i, 407.
Porch verse, from Herrick's Hespe-
rides, ii, 135.
Porcupine, vulgar error concerning
the, iii, 381.
Porpesse, an omen of the weather,
iii, 240.
Portland, Isle of, betrothing customs
at, ii, 87.
custom of preaching funeral
sermons retained at, ii, 279.
Portuni, ii, 478.
Posset, eating a, at going to bed, a
custom of our ancestors, ii,
173.
sack, composition of the, ii,
Post and paire, ii, 450.
Pouk, ii, 513.
"Præivit," the epitaph on a fellow of
St. John's College, Oxford, ii, 251.
Pretender, effigy of the, burnt in
Queen Anne's time on the
anniversary of Queen Eliza-
beth's accession, i, 407.
epigram concerning the, i, 407.
Prick by a thorn, charm for, iii, 311.
PRICKING at the Belt or GIRDLE, ii,
435.
Priest who took his bagpipe, and
fetched the couple to be married
to church, and afterwards accom-
panied them back, ii, 159.
Primero, ii, 450.
Primerole, i, 75.
Primitiæ, Roman offerings of the, i,
199.
Princess, blessing of the nuptial bed
at the marriage of a, ii, 175.
PRISON BARS, or PRISON BASE, ii,
436.
Prize besom, garland so called, dressed
up at Shaftesbury, on the Monday
before Holy Thursday, i, 208.
Processions on Candlemas Day, i, 43.
Hooker's fondness for, i, 203.
visitation articles concerning,
advantages of, noticed by
Herbert, in his Country
Parson, i, 204.
extracts from churchwardens'
accounts, illustration of, i,
205.
Procession week, account of, from
Naogeorgus, i, 208.
PROCESSUS and MARTINIAN, i, 338.
Professions and ranks of people,
Romish saints for, i, 359.
Prognostications from particular days,
i, 52.
Protestants, their celebration of Queen
Elizabeth's accession, i, 405.
Prudentius, his verses recording the
tradition that spirits fly away at
cock-crowing, ii, 52.
|Prudentius, his description of a linen
shroud, ii, 232.
Prussia, St. Albert and St. Andrew
patron saints of, i 364.
Prynne, William, invective of, against
the rites of New Year's Day, i, 18.
Psalm 103, used at Rogation time, i,
204.
PSALMODY, use of, at Funerals, ïi,
267-8.
used to cure agues, iii, 299.
PUCKE, ii, 508.
Pudding-pieing, custom of, in Kent,
i, 180.
Pulse, religious use of, amongst the
Romans, i, 117.
Pulver Wednesday, i, 95.
Punchinello, or Pulcinella, origin of,
ii, 473.
PUNISHMENTS, OBSOLETE VULGAR,
iii, 102-10.
Purification of the Virgin Mary, cere-
monies on the, i, 44-5.
Purifications of women, festive meet-
ings at, ii, 75.
Puritans, preachings and invectives of,
against May games, i, 241.
Purses and coffins, fire omens, iii,
183.
Purslain used as a charm, iii, 300.
Putt, game of, i, 516.
PUTTING THE MILLER'S EYE OUT,
iii, 389.
Pygmies, the, supposed to have been
fairies, iii, 381.
Pyrrhic, or military dance, supposed
the origin of the morris dance, i,
247.
QUAALTAGH, the, i, 538-9.
Quadrillo, ii, 450.
Quail combats, ii, 59, 60.
Quarell, Yren de, iii, 271.
Quarter ale, i, 279.
Queen of the Bean, i, 26-7.
of Winter, i, 257.
of Elf-land, ii, 507.
of Fairie, ii, 507.
Queen's College, Oxford, boar's-head | Ramsgate, Christmas custom of going
carol at, i, 485.
ceremony adhered to by the
scholars at, who place their
thumbs on the table when
waiting on the fellows,ii,327.
Questions and commands, i, 466.
Quince pear, eating of a, ii, 132.
Quinces, effect of, as a charm, iii, 297.
Quindena Paschæ, i, 187.
a hodening at, i, 474.
Randy beggars, iii, 99.
Rank, distinction of, preserved in the
North of England in the tolling of
the soul bell, ii, 212.
Ratcliffe, ram's horns at, in Hentzner's
time, ii, 194.
Rat omens, iii, 187-9.
Raven superstitions, iii, 211-2-44.
Quinquagesima Sunday, play acted on, Raw head and bloody bones, ii, 516.
Quirinalia, description of the, i, 133. REMORA, iii, 381.
Rabdomanteia, iii, 332.
RACES, ii, 436.
Radnorshire, custom of dancing in the
churchyards in, ii, 298.
Rag well, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
ii, 380.
Rags, custom of leaving at wells, ii,
Rennes, in Brittany, custom of married
people claiming a flitch of bacon
at, ii, 181.
Resurrection of our Saviour, ancient
celebration of, i, 167.
"Reveille Matin," ii, 176.
REVELLINGS, ii, 2, 3.
Reversis, ii, 450.
Revesby Abbey, account of a morris
drama played at, in 1779, i, 513.
use of, as charms in Persia, ii," Rex Convivii," i, 26.
left on trees in the interior of
Africa, by persons crossing
the wilderness, ii, 383.
Rain, prophecy concerning, on St.
Swithin's Day, i, 341.
on St. Simon and St. Jude's
Day, i, 375-6.
omens of, iii, 241.
Ram, Eton custom of hunting the, i,
440.
Ramilies, colours taken at, put up in
Guildhall, i, 324.
Ram's horns fixed upon a pole, noticed
by Hentzner in going down the
Thames, opposite to Ratcliffe, ii, 194.
"Rex Fabarum," i, 24.
"Rey de Havas," i, 23.
Rhamadan, Mahomedan feast of, iii,
Rhodes, annual custom at, of carrying
Silenus in procession at Easter, ii,
Riband, riding for the, in Westmore-
land, ii, 156.
Ribands on May Day, i, 222.
colours of, explained, ii, 111.
toasts of bits of, mentioned in
Hudibras, ii, 340.
Richard I, the name of, used by the
Turks and Saracens to their horses,
ii, 516.
Richmond, co. Surrey, visited in 1783 | Rings, fairy, ii, 479-80.
by morris dancers from Abington,
i, 252.
"Richmond wedding," print of the
procession of the, ii, 192.
Riding, virtue of an elder-stick in,
iii, 284.
for the bride cake in Leicester-
for the riband in Westmore-
land, ii, 156.
the stang, representation of,
in Hoefnagle's Views in
Spain, ii, 188.
Rifarts, i, 113.
Riffeling, i, 281.
Ring of singular virtue presented to
King Edward the Confessor,
i, 150.
gold, with orpyne plants for a
device, i, 330.
- of the door, binding of the, in
Holland, ii, 72.
marriage, ii, 100.
supposed heathen origin of
the, ii, 101.
verses on, from Herrick's Hes-
perides, ii, 102.
Prometheus the supposed in-
ventor of the, ii, 102.
poems relating to the, ii, 102,
106.
how directed to be put on, ii,
103.
worn by the ancient Greeks
and Romans, ii, 104.
hallowing of the, ii, 106.
RING and BRIDE CAKE, ii, 100.
RING, DIVERSION of the, ii, 437.
RING, RIDING at the, ii, 437.
Ring-finger, account of the,
Levina's Lemorius, ii, 104.
Ringlets of grass, ii, 480.
Rings, hallowing of, on Good Friday,
St. Martin's, ii, 95.
formerly given away at wed-
dings, ii, 106.
- in the candle, iii, 181.
charms by, iii, 300-1.
Ripon, in Yorkshire, custom at, on the
Sunday before Candlemas
Day, i, 49.
Easter customs observed at,
custom at, in Rogation Week,
custom at, on All Souls' Eve,
Christmas customs at, i, 468,
527, 531.
Robbers called St. Nicholas's clerks,
i, 418.
Robigalia, i, 202.
Robin Bad-fellow, ii, 514.
ROBIN GOOD-FELLOW, ii, 508-16.
Robin Hood, i, 258.
not always a constituent part
of the morris, i, 253.
the choosing of, mentioned in
Skene's Regiam Majesta-
tem, i, 259.
gathering of, i, 259.
styled King of the May, i,
259.
and May game, illustrations
of the expenses attending,
i, 259-60.
first mentioned by Fordun,
the Scottish historian, i, 261.
ROBIN REDBREAST, iii, 191-3.
Roche Abbey, Yorkshire, derivation
of the name of, i, 350.
ROCH'S DAY, ST., i, 350.
Rochus, St., i, 364.
Rocke, St., i, 365.
Rocke Monday, i, 63, 350.
Rodez, in Rovergne, Abbé de la Mal-
gouverné at, i, 504.
Rogation days, origin of, i, 197, 200-
ceremonies ordered on, by
Queen Elizabeth, i, 204.
visitation articles concerning,
i, 204.
woman marrying a man under" Geho," antiquity of the term, ii, 15.
the, to save him from exe-
cution, iii, 379.
Galston, in Ayrshire, women attend
funerals in the village of, dressed
in black or red cloaks, ii, 283.
Games, Christmas, i, 461-74-97.
enumeration of, used by boys
and girls, from a Harleian
MS., ii, 390.
Gang-days, gang-week, i, 202.
flower, or Rogation-flower, i,
203.
Ganging-day, custom of, at Bishop's
Stortford, i, 372.
Gargunnock, co. Stirling, pernicious
drinking custom at, ii, 345.
witchcraft superstition at,
iii, 48.
GARLANDS AT WEDDINGS, ii, 123.
IN COUNTRY CHURCHES, AND
Gemmel, or gemow rings, ii, 96.
Genevieve, St., i, 364-5.
Genii, doctrine of, as attendants upon
human beings, i, 367.
Genoa, St. John Baptist the patron
of, i, 364.
Genow, St., i, 364-5.
George, St., i, 360-2-4-5.
patron of England, 362-4.
George Cataphractus, St., i, 365.
GEORGE'S DAY, ST., i, 192.
Germain, St., great bell at the abbey
of, rung against thunder, ii, 217.
Germans, martial dance among the,
with swords, i, 512.
custom among the, for a bride,
when conducted to the
bride-chamber, to take off
her shoe and throw it among
the bystanders, ii, 167.
STREWING FLOWERS ON Germany, Twelfth Day customs in, i,
GRAVES, ii, 302-14.
custom of carrying round, on
Shrove Tuesday, i, 68.
of willow, sent to disappointed
lovers, i, 123.
carried at the funerals of
virgins, ii, 304-5.
Garnish-money, i, 433.
Garter, order of the, whence derived,
ii, 129.
GARTERS AT WEDDINGS, ii, 127.
Gauch, Teutonic for fool, i, 140.
Gay, mention of divination by peas-
describes the strewing of flowers
upon the graves, ii, 306.
Geddes, Dr., anecdote of, i, 258.
Geese, in prime season at Michaelmas,
i, 368.
custom used in many places of,
on Ash Wednesday, i, 98.
emblematical print sometimes
presented in, instead of
eggs, i, 175.
custom in, on the night before
the 1st of May, i, 228.
St. Martin, St. Boniface, and
St. George Cataphractus,
patron saints of, i, 365.
first appearance of gipsies in,
iii, 94.
Ghent, St. Bavo and St. Liburn pa-
tron saints of, i, 364.
Ghost, Grose's description of a, iii, 67.
mode of addressing one, iii, 70.
pronounced guest in the North
of England, iii, 86.
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