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Faw, John, Lord and Earl of Little FINDING OR LOSING THINGS, iii,

Egypt, iii, 100.

Faws, gipsies so called in the north

of England, iii, 100.
Fawkes, Guy, image of, carried about
on the 5th of November, i, 397-8.
Fayles, game of, ii, 417.
Feasts, burial, ii, 237.

February set apart for Parentalia, or
funeral anniversaries, ii, 157.
Feed the dove, i, 517.

Feet, happy and unhappy, iii, 167.
charms for the, iii, 285.

Felicitas, St., i, 364.

Fens, superstition of the, iii, 19.
Feralia, ii, 308.

Feriæ, ii, 459.

Ferioll, St., i, 365.

Fern-seed, gathered on Midsummer
Eve, magical powers of, i, 314-5.
Ferrers, George, a lord of misrule,
temp. Edward VI, i, 499.

Festum fatuorum, i, 137.

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Festum stultorum veterum," i, 137.
Fetches, iii, 228.

FETCH LIGHTS, iii, 237-8.

Fête des Rois, i, 22.

Fever, charm against, iii, 271.
Feu de la St. Jean, i, 310.
Feux de joie, i, 301.
Fiage, St., i, 364.

Fian, Dr., torture and death of,
in Scotland, for witchcraft, iii,
40.

Fiery dragons, and fiery drakes, me-
teors, i, 321; iii, 410.
FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, i, 397-8.
Fig Sunday, i, 124.

FIGURES, ASTROLOGICAL, DIVINA-
TION BY, iii, 341-8.

Fillan, river, pool in the, famed for
curing madness, ii, 381.
St., co. Perth, superstitions
practised at the springs of,
iii, 273.

Fillets, bride's, ii, 169.
Findern, in Derbyshire, custom at,
of lighting fires on the evening of
All Souls' Day, i, 391.

250-1.

FINGER NAILS, Divination by the,
iii, 177.

Finns, superstitions of the, relating
to St. George's Day, i, 192.

feast of Allhallows said to
drive them out of their
wits, i, 396.

throw a piece of (money into

the trough out of which
horses drink on St. Ste-
phen's Day, i, 534.
Monday and Friday held to be
unlucky days with, ii, 50.
Fir darrig, the, ii, 508.

Fir tree, superstition concerning the,
iii, 233.

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cleaving and hanging on the
parts of men and beasts,"
iii, 410.

Fire-brand Sunday, i, 100.
Fires, St. John's, i, 299, 301-3.
dancing round, in inns of
court, i, 310.

customary on particular eves,
i, 317-8.

on the four great festivals of
the Druids, i, 325.

omens in the burning of, iii,
183-4.

of St. Peter and St. Nicholas,
iii, 401.
Firmin, St., i, 364.

Fishwomen spit upon their handsel,
iii, 261.
Fitzharding, Sir Robert, anniversary
of, at St. Augustine's Monastery,
Bristol, i, 116.

Fitzwalter, Lord, the originator of the
claim for a fitch of bacon
Dunmow, ii, 178.

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FIVE SCORE of MEN, MONEY, and Fool, a character in the morris dance.

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Fleabane, seed of, used as a charm, Fools, festival of, i, 13, 131, 135, 139,

iii, 313.

Fleas, merry conceit for preventing

the increase of, ii, 198.
biting of, iii, 204.

FLIES considered as omens, iii, 189.
FLINGING THE STOCKING, a species
of divination used at weddings, ii,
170.

Flintshire, marriage custom prevalent
in, ii, 127.

Flitch of bacon, claiming of, by
married people, ii, 177-9.
Floralia, Roman, i, 216-41.
Florian, St., i, 360-4-5.
Flouncing, a betrothing custom in
Guernsey, ii, 98.

Flower seeds sown on Palm Sunday,
iii, 248.

Flowers, strewed at weddings, ii, 116.
ancients used to crown de-

ceased persons with, ii, 252.
strewed on graves, ii, 302-14.
sweet-scented, only permitted
to be planted on graves, ii,

310-11.

or boughs put upon the heads
of horses for sale, ii, 351.
FLOWERS, DIVINATION BY, iii, 358-9.
Fly, custom of fetching in the, at
Oxford, i, 84.

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money, ii, 156.

prohibited in Scotland, ii, 417.
Footcloth, fool's, in the morris dance,
i, 267.
Footing, ii, 333.

Footman, Sir Thomas Overbury's
character of a, i, 110.
Forefinger of the right hand con-
sidered venomous, iii, 177.
Fore-spoken water, i, 394.
goods, iii, 299.

Forfar, Martinmas custom at, i, 399
Forfeits, i, 517.

in barbers' shops, ii, 361.
Forglen, in Banffshire, few persons at,
choose to marry on a Friday,
ii, 50.

other superstitions at, iii, 111,
167.

Fortingall, co. Perth, yew tree at, ii,
263.

Fortune-teller, description of the, in
Hudibras, iii, 62.

FOLLOWING THE CORPSE TO THE Fortune-tellers still called

GRAVE, ii, 249-54.

Fond Plough, i, 505.

Fontinalia, feast of, ii, 368.

Fool of the May games, i, 263-5.

King Charles the First's, i,
265.

men" in the North, iii, 63.

"wise

Fountain on the shores of the Bos-

phorus, ii, 368.

Fountains, superstitions, ii, 374-5-7,

380.

forbidden, ii, 374.

Four, superstition relating to the Friar Tuck, i, 262-3.

number, iii, 268.

Fowl, offering of a, ii, 375.

merry-thought of a, iii, 220.

Fowls, omens from, ii, 219.

Fox and geese, ii, 354.
Fox-i-th' Hole, i, 3.

Fox tayles, crown of, iii, 392.
Foys, ii, 330.

Froise, i, 393.

France, Ash Wednesday how distin-
guished by the peasantry
of, i, 100.

custom in, on Midsummer
Eve, i, 316.

St. Denis and St. Michael the
patron saints of, i, 364.
kings of, give presents to their
soldiers at Christmas, i,
496.

hunting the wren in, iii, 195-6.
touching for the evil in, iii,
302.

Frances, St. de Sales, forbids the cus-

tom of valentines, i, 59.

Francis, St., i, 365.

girdle of, iii, 311.

Franciscans, supposed to have at-

tended May games, i, 262.

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unlucky for marriage, ii, 50.

Frideswide, St., i, 364.

Frindsbury, co. Kent, May-day cus-
tom at, i, 246.

procession of the men of, to
Rochester on Whit Monday,
i, 246.

Frogs, omens of weather, iii, 244.
Frumenty, ii, 11, 19.

Fugalia, Roman, feast of, i, 185.
Fuller's thistle, weather omen drawn
from, iii, 247.

Funeral or dead peal, ii, 219.
FUNERAL ENTERTAINMENTS,

237-45.

Pie, ii, 243.

ii.

rites, parody on, in Dunbar's
will of Maister Andro'
Kennedy, ii, 250.

song, formerly used in York-
shire, ii, 254.

etymology of, ii, 276.

sermons, ii, 279.

tokens, ii, 286.

Franconia, rites celebrated in, at Ro- FUNERALS IN THE CHURCH-PORCH,

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ii, 245.

psalmody used at, ii, 267.

music at, ii, 267-76

Roman, ii, 267.

Irish, ii, 269.

howling at, ii, 270.

torches and lights at, ii,
276.

invitations to, ii, 287.
Funus, etymology of, ii, 276.
Furmenty pot, ii, 18.
Furmety, i, 111-12.

used at country wakes in
Cheshire, ii, 11.

Furry Day, in Cornwall, supposed
Flora's Day, i, 223.
song, i, 224.

Fye, or fye-token, iii, 228.
Fynnon Vair, ü, 374.


MAID MARIAN, or QUEEN of the Man, Isle of, superstitions in, referred

MAY, i, 253-8.

the mistress of Robin Hood,
i, 255-6.

Maiden assizes, gloves given at, ii,

126.

Maiden feast upon the finishing of
harvest at Longforgan, co. Perth,
ii, 25.

Maidens, gathering of the, on St.
Barnabas' Day, i, 293.
"Maigrefwe," i, 259.
Main, etymology of, ii, 62.
Mains in cock-fighting, ii, 62.
Malabrians, superstitions among the,
iii, 205.

Malkin, a name for Maid Marian, i,
256.

Mamertus, Bishop of Vienna, litanies
or rogations first observed by, i,
202.

Mammard, St., i, 365.

Man, Isle of, customs in the, on
Twelfth Day, i, 32.

III.

on the 1st of May, i,
257.

to the second sight, iii, 159.
salt-superstitions in, iii, 164.
belief in mermaids, water-

bulls, &c., iii, 411.

home of the spell-bound
giants in Castle Rushen,
iii, 89.

local superstitions in, iii,

411.

Mangunel, William, his divination by
the speal or bladebone, iii, 339.
Man in the Moon, iii, 153-4.
"Man's ingress and egress," ii, 275.
Mandingoe tribe of Indians, adora-

tion of the new moon
by, iii, 149.
lustration of children

among the, iii, 260.

MANDRAKE, iii, 12, 375.
Manna, vulgar error relating to, iii,
372.

Mapouder, co. Dorset, curfew bell
rung at, ii, 223.

Marble, dampness of, an omen of
weather, iii, 243.
on Christmas Day, i, MARBLES, ii, 427.
471.

on St. Stephen's Day,
iii, 198.

custom of the quaaltagh in,
i, 538.

of hunting the wren in,
iii, 198.

March, borrowed days of, ii, 41-2.
first three days of, called
"blind days" in Devon-
shire, ii, 43.

Marchpanes, i, 13.

Marching-watch, in London, temp.
Hen. III to Hen. VIII, i, 326-7.

superstitions in, relating to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, her

changelings, ii, 74.

christenings in, ii, 81.

prayer to St. Nicholas, and conse-
quent vision, i, 421.

wedding ceremonies in, ii, MARGARET'S DAY, ST., i, 345.

114-51-60.

wake kept in, with the dead,
ii, 229.

funeral customs in, ii, 240.
fairy superstitions in, ii,
494-5.

fairies asserted by the Manks
to have been the first in-
habitants of their island,
ii, 494.

witches in the, iii, 5.

Mariach Shine, ii, 377.

Marigolds, weather omens drawn
from, iii, 247.

MARK'S DAY, or EVE, ST., i, 192.
custom at Alnwick upon, i,
194.

MARRIAGE CEREMONY PERFORMED
ANCIENTLY IN THE CHURCH-
PORCH, ii, 133.

MARRIAGE CUSTOMS and CEREMO-
NIES, ii, 87.

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Marriage, privy contracts of, ii, 88, 89. | Mary Queen of Scots, bells rung at

psalm, ii, 138.

divination at, ii, 165.

prohibited times of, ii, 168.
days noted in old calendars as
fit for, ii, 168.

vulgar error concerning mar-
riage under the gallows, iii,
379.
Marriages esteemed unlucky in May,
i, 224.

nuts used in, among the

Romans, i, 164.
Marrowbones, origin of the term, i,
49.

"Marry," origin of the expression, i,
48.

Marseilles, custom at, of interring the

carnival, on Ash Wednesday, i, 100.
Marsden fair, co. Oxford, Queen of
the May at, i, 258.

Mart, etymology of, i, 400.
Martial, St., i, 364.

Martilmas beefe, i, 399.

Mary

Edinb. in 1566, on account
of her sickness, ii, 207.
drank to her attendants pre-
vious to her execution,
desiring them to pledge
her, ii, 335.
Atingana, St., i, 364.
St., i, 364-5.

of Aquisgrana, St., i, 365.
Marymass fair in Irvine, ii, 469.
Masking on New Year's Day, i, 19.
Masks at weddings, ii, 161.
Mass, a word for festival, i, 348.
"Master," in the Scottish sense, heir
apparent, ii, 75.

Matching, co. Herts, house built
close to the churchyard for the en-
tertainment of poor people on their
wedding-day, ii, 144.

Matilda, daughter of Robert Lord
Fitzwalter, the original Maid
Marian, i, 256.

Maturin, St., i, 364-5.

Martilmasse Day, old ballad of, i, 403. MAUNDAY THURSDAY, i, 142-50.

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"Les Martinales, ou Descrip-
tion d'une Médaille," i, 403.
Martin Marre-prelate, manner of his
burial, ii, 292.

MARTINMAS, i, 399, 404.

the time when winter pro-
visions were laid in, i, 399.
Naogeorgus's verses on, i, 403.
Old, i, 410.

Martin's rings, St., ii, 95.

why so called, i, 142-3.

notices of the distribution of,

in England, i, 143-5.

custom of "washing the feet"
on, at Vienna, i, 143.
order of the, as practised by
Queen Elizabeth, i, 145-6.
Earl of Northumberland's, A.D.
1512, i, 147.

customs observed by Cardinal
Wolsey on, i, 149.

ceremony of, in Russia, i, 149.
practice on, among the French,
i, 149.

Maurice, Emperor, superstitions of
the, iii, 110.

Martin's stone, at Strathmartin, i, 322. Mawe, ii, 450.

Martinsall-hill, i, 401.

Marus, St., i, 364.

Mary Queen of Scots, Buchanan's
verses to, on New Year's
Day, i, 16.

ceremonies at her marriage
with Lord Darnley, ii, 140.

May, derivation of the word, i, 221.
Lady of the, i, 221-53-7.
considered an unlucky time
for the celebration of mar-
riage, i, 224; ii, 168.

King or Lord of, i, 259.
Queen of, i, 257.

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