Sleeveless errand, meaning of, i, 132. | Soul-bell, distinction of rank preserved Slide-board, slide-groat, slide-thrift,
and slip-thrift, ii, 441.
in the North of England in
the tolling of the, ii, 212.
Smock race on Ascension Day in the Soul cakes, custom of distributing on North of England, i, 210.
"Smoke follows the fairest," ii, 347. Smoker, anecdote of a, ii, 365-6.
All Souls' Day, i, 392-3. use of, formerly in Shropshire, i, 393.
Smoke money on St. Mary's Eve, i, Souler's song, i, 393. 46.
Snails used in love divinations, i, 388. Snake egg, Pliny's account of the, iii, 370.
stones, i, 322. Snakes, Cornish opinion concerning the meeting of, on Midsum- mer Eve, i, 322. --omens from, iii, 224. Sneezing, superstitions relating to, iii, 119-26.
when the king of Mesopotamia sneezes, acclamations are made in all parts of his dominions, iii, 124.
cures the hiccup, iii, 125. Solar New Year, festival of the, i, 170.
Solihull, near Birmingham, ash tree at, iii, 289.
Somas cake, i, 394.
Somersetshire, Christmas mummings in, i, 466.
Song of the schoolboy at Christmas, i, 453.
Songs, wassailers', on New Year's Eve, i, 5.
"Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ," i, 487.
Soot, falling of, a weather omen, iii, 244.
Sops and ale, ii, 72.
in wine, ii, 91.
Souling, custom of going a, in Staf- fordshire, on All Saints' Day, i, 393.
South Ronaldsay and Burray, two of the Orkney Islands, no couple chooses to marry in, except with a growing moon, ii, 169.
South Shields, bidders to a funeral at, ii, 250.
Southwark fair, Gay's description of, ii, 467.
Southwell, curious account by, of Bartholomew fair, ii, 460. Sow crossing the way, iii, 201. Sow-day in Scotland, i, 400. Sowens eaten in Scotland, i, 384. Spain, prevalence of persons crossing themselves in, i, 176. Midsummer Eve festivities in, i, 317.
St. James (Jago) the patron saint for, i, 364. celebration of the boy-bishop in, i, 426.
childbirth custom in, ii, 70. account of the gipsies in, ii, 97. riding the stang in, ii, 181.
a crime in, to put up horns against a neighbour's house, ii, 183.
custom in, of strangers casting stones upon untimely graves, ii, 309.
Spang-bodle, ii, 407.
Spaniards hold Friday an unlucky day, ii, 50.
Sparrows, superstitions concerning, iii, 194.
SPEAL, or BLADEBONE, iii. 339. Spectator, notice in, of All Fools' Day, i, 132.
Spectator, description of a wake given | Stables, charm for, from Herrick's in, ii, 8.
Spectres and apparitions supposed to haunt burial-places, ii, 290. Spell from Herrick's Hesperides, iii, 58-9.
Spells on Allhallow Even, i, 379-80. Spelly coat, iii, 86.
Spey, well of, in Scotland, ii, 380. Spice of evil, iii, 394. Spick and span, iii, 394. SPIDER OMENS, iii, 223.
vulgar error concerning the, iii, 381.
Spiders, Ashmole's charm with, iii, 287.
SPILLING OF WINE, iii, 165-6. Spinners, or spiders, omens of wea-
ther, iii, 223-4. SPINNY WYE, ii, 442.
Hesperides, iii, 282.
Stack, charm of fathoming the, i, 383.
Staffordshire, custom of souling in,
on All Saints' Day, i, 393. custom in, on the eve of Twelfth Day, i, 22.
Christmas hobby-horse in, i, 492.
STAMFORD, BULL-RUNNING IN THE TOWN OF, ii, 63-4.
Standard erected on Easter Day, by the Romanists, i, 176. Stang, riding the, i, 12; ii, 188.
derivation of, ii, 188. Stanhope, co. Durham, garlands sus- pended in the church of, ii, 303. Stanlake, co. Oxford, Plott's account of the Rogation custom at, i, 199.
Spirits, said to fly away at cock-crow, Star-jelly, iii, 404. ii, 52.
evil, frightened at the sound of bells, ii, 204-5-6. popular creed concerning, iii," 68-9.
mode of consulting, iii, 70-1. walking of, iii, 72.
give disturbance by knocking, iii, 70.
Spittle, lustrations by, iii, 259-63. of the stars, iii, 404-5.
Spoons, Apostles', a christening pre- sent, ii, 83.
Sports at weddings, ii, 160-4.
Book of, i, 238-9.
at Christmas, i, 492-7, 505. at fairs, ii, 453. SPORTS and GAMES, ii, 387. Spott, in East Lothian, witches burnt at, iii, 30.
Sprains, charms against, iii, 321. Springs or rivers, custom of drinking sugar and water at, on some Sunday in May, ii, 375. Squinting persons, iii, 205. Squirrels, hunting of, on Christmas Day, in Suffolk, i, 489.
Stars, shooting of the, iii, 241. Stathern, co. Leicester, custom at, of giving dole at a funeral, ii, 288. Status Scholæ Etonensis," extracts from the, i, 15, 62, 83, 98, 217, 335, 353, 431, 436, 497. Statute fairs, ii, 455. STEPHEN'S DAY, ST., i, 532-4.
horses blooded on, i, 532. Hospinian's account of, i, 532. goose-pies made on, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, i, 534.
proverb on, i, 534. Stepney parish, vulgar error concern- ing, iii, 380.
Stewes, in Southwark, proclamation of King Henry VIII concerning the, ii, 402.
Stirrup verse, ii, 274.
STIR-UP SUNDAY, i, 414. Stocking, flinging the, ii, 170. Stockings, superstitions concerning the putting on, iii, 167. STOKESLEY, one of the characters in the morris dance, i, 266. Stone of imagination, iii, 50.
- spitting on a, iii, 261.
Stone pulpit at Magdalen College, | Suffolk, custom in, on May Day, i,
Oxford, i, 335.
superstitions, iii, 300.
Stones at each end of a grave, custom
of whitening in Glamorgan- shire, at certain times, ii, 302.
casting of, in Spain, upon un- timely graves, ii, 309. perforated, creeping through, iii, 293.
slept on, to cure lameness, iii, 294.
Stool-ball, i, 180; ii, 442. STOOL-BALL, GAME OF, ii, 442. Stool, witch's, ii, 23.
STORMY PETREL, augury by the, iii,
Stortford, Bishop's, co. Hertford, septennial custom at, i, 372. Stot-plough, i, 505. Straightening board, ii, 235. Strangers in the candle, iii, 181. Strathfillan, cures at the pool of, iii, 295.
Strathspey, Lake of Spirits at, ii, 377.
Straw used in beds, ii, 66.
of the king's bed, temp. Henry VIII, ii, 66.
Streaking, the term in the North of England for laying out a body, ii, 232.
derivation of the word, ii, 232. "Strenarum commercium," i, 18. STREWING CHURCHES WITH FLOW- ERS ON DAYS OF HUMILIATION and THANKSGIVING, ii, 13-4. STREWING HERBS, FLOWERS, and RUSHES BEFORE THE BRIDEGROOM and BRIDE, ii, 116.
harvest-home song in, ii, 19. game of camp, played in, ii,
custom of burying a slunk or abortive calf in, iii, 313. ten-pounding amongst har- vestmen, ii, 23.
peascod divination in, ii, 99. belief in, that a flint hung in a
stable protects the animals in it from the fairies, ii, 503.
Suicides said to have been usually in- terred on the north sides of church- yards, ii, 292. "Sumanalia," ii, 101.
Sumatra, quails trained to fighting in, ii, 60.
Summer king and queen, i, 259. SUMMER SOLSTICE, i, 298, 337.
Sun, shining of, on Easter Day, i,
shining on a bride, a good omen, ii, 167.
omen from the cloudy rising of the, iii, 241.
feast among the Greenlanders, i, 475.
Sunday after the day of dedication of a church used as its feast, ii, 2.
fairs held on, abolished, ii, 4. after marriage, custom on, in North Wales, ii, 176. bear-baiting on, ii, 403. Sunnywell, co. Berks, custom formerly of blessing the springs at, ii, 379. Suns, three supposed to be seen on Trinity Sunday, i, 285.
STREWING FLOWERS on GRAVES, ii, SUPERNACULUM, ii 342-3.
Strickle, strickler, iii, 387.
Stroud hospital, co. Kent, May custom at, i, 246.
Struma, touching for the, iii, 349. Stumbling, superstition concerning, iii, 249-50.
etymology of, ii, 342. Suppers, funeral, among the ancients,
different kinds of, ii, 238. Surgeon's sign, ii, 359.
Surrey, ceremonies practised in, for the cure of the hooping cough, iii, 288-9.
Sussex, custom of squirrel-hunting in, | Sword-dance performed in the North on St. Andrew's Day, i, 415. death-bed superstitions in, ii,
231. Swallows, considered as omens, iii, 193-4, 242.
Swan, singing of the, before death, iii, 373.
"Swanne, Tale of the," ii, 184. Swans "cannot hatch without a crack of thunder," iii, 247. prognosticate weather, iii, 247. Swarming up a pole after a goose, ii,
Swart-alfar of the Edda, iii, 415. Swarths, iii, 235.
Swearing at Highgate, ii, 195. Sweating sickness, the cause of the London watch being discontinued, temp. Henry VIII, i, 327. Sweden, custom of making April fools in, i, 139.
Lyke Wake retained in, ii, 229.
Riding of Yorkshire from St. Stephen's Day till New Year's Day, i, 513.
Sybows, i, 113.
Sylham lamps, iii, 397.
Tables, draught-board called, ii, 353. Taffies, skewered in gingerbread on St. David's Day, probable origin of the custom, i, 105. Taish, iii, 158.
Tali, game of, ii, 412. Tamans, fortune-tellers so called in Ireland, iii, 64. Tansey cake, i, 166-76. Tanseys at Easter, i, 176-9.
used as a charm, iii, 314. Tapers, funeral, ii, 276. TAPPIE-TOUSIE, ii, 443. Tarans, unbaptised children so called in Scotland, ii, 73.
Tarantula, vulgar error concerning the, iii, 381.
superstitions in, relating to the Tarasca, the Spanish name for the
Sweeps, festival of, on May Day, i, 231-2.
Sweethearts, dreaming for, on St. Agnes' Eve, i, 36-7.
Swell or thorn, charm for a, iii, 272. Swine, time to kill for bacon, iii, 142. omens of weather, iii, 201, 243.
Swine's grease, bride anoints the door- posts with, to drive away misfor- tune, ii, 169.
SWING, sport of the, ii, 428. SWITHIN'S DAY, ST., i, 340-2.
Gay's mention of, in his Trivia, i, 340.
local proverbs on, i, 342. notice of, in Poor Robin's Al- manack, i, 340-1. SWORD-DANCE, i, 511-4.
Olaus Magnus's description of the, i, 511.
how performed in Northum- berland, i, 513.
hobby-horse, i, 270.
Tarbat, Mary's well at, ii, 371. Tarocco, ii, 450.
Tarragona, decree of the Council at, A.D. 1591, against the gipsies, iii, 97. Tarroo-ushtey, or water-bull of the Isle of Man, iii, 413. Tarum, profane wakes at, ii, 11. Tasks, ghosts of the dying, iii, 229. Tavern bush, ii, 351.
signs, ii, 351-8.
Taw, ii, 427. Tawnles, ii, 474.
Tear falling on a winding-sheet, ii, 233.
Tears, Pennant's notice of the paint- ing of, on doors and window-shut- ters in Scotland to express grief, ii, 313.
Tecla, St., well of, at Llandegla, ii, 375. Teelings, ii, 412. Telephilon, iii, 307-59.
Temple, Inner, lord of misrule at, i,
Middle, solemnities of the Christmas prince at, in 1635, i, 499.
Tempting powder, iii, 308. Ten-pounding, custom of, in Suffolk, ii, 23.
TENTH WAVE and TENTH EGG, iii, 372.
Terminalia, feast of, i, 198, 200. Terræ filius, in Oxford, i, 72. Tezils, or fuller's thistle, omens of weather, iii, 247.
Thames, bear-baiting on the, ii, 402. Thatch of a witch's house, burning
Thebes, Boeotian, Bacchus and Her- cules preside over, i, 365. Theocritus, passage in, on the subject of love divinations, 385. Theophany, a name for Christmas, i, 473.
Therfield, co. Hertf. kitchen furniture kept at for weddings, ii, 145. THEW, iii, 103.
Thief in a candle, iii, 182. Thirteen persons meeting in a room, a death omen, iii, 264. Thistle, our Lady's, i, 48. Thistles, flying of down from, a sign of rain, iii, 242.
Thomas, St. Lottes, iii, 310. Thomas à Becket, St., fires lighted on his eve, i, 338. THOMAS'S DAY, ST., i, 455.
love divinations on, i, 457. Thorn, Glastonbury, i, 293.
Throwing at cocks, origin of, wrongly ascribed to the victories of Henry V, i, 74.
song on cock-throwing, from Lluellin's Poems, i, 78. Thumb, right, drinking over the, ii, 343.
Thumbs, pricking of the, iii, 180.
biting of, iii, 180.
Thunder on Shrove Tuesday, i, 93. ringing of bells against, ii, 217. charms against, iii, 246, 316,
Thurlow, Lord, speech of, on the third reading of the Surgeons' In- corporation Bill, ii, 359.
Thursday, noted as a fatal day to King Henry VIII and his posterity, ii, 48.
Thurso, witches of, iii, 33. Tiberius forbids the giving or de- manding of New Year's gifts, i, 17. remarkable for sneezing,iii, 123. - afraid of thunder and light- ning, iii, 317.
Tib's rush for Tom's forefinger, ii, 108. TICK-TACK, ii, 445.
Timist, Sir Thomas Overbury's cha- racter of a, i, 16.
"Tine cat, tine game," ii, 408. Tindles, a name for the Allhallow Eve fires, in Derbyshire, i, 391. TINGLING of EARS, iii, 171-3. Tinley, ceremony so called, of lighting fires on Allhallow Even, i, 391. "Tintinnabula," ii, 212.
Thracians, custom of the, when it Tissington, co. Derby, custom of pray-
THREAD-MY-NEEDLE, GAME OF, ii,
Threshing of the cock, i, 80.
of the hen, i, 80.
Thrift box in barbers' shops, i, 496. Throat, stoppage in, ancient receipt for, i, 52.
THROWING AT COCKS, i, 72, 81.
ing and singing psalms at wells at, ii, 378.
Tithes, payment of, i, 208.
Tiverton, custom at, on Royal Oak Day, i, 275-6.
TOAD STONE, iii, 50.
Toads used for charms, iii, 211. Toast, origin of the word, ii, 340.
anagram of, ii, 341.
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