Bull-baiting, Misson's account of, as | Byfield church, co. Northampton, practised temp. Will. II, ii, 401. Bumping persons, custom of, to make them remember parish boun- daries, i, 206.
of carrying a dragon about
on Midsummer Eve, i, 320.
Burgarde, St., i, 366. Burghley, William, Lord, advice of, concerning unlucky days, ii, 48. Burgundy, St. Andrew and St. Mary, the patron saints of, i, 364. Burial, places of, supposed to be haunted by spectres and ap- paritions, ii, 290. anciently without the walls of cities and towns, ii, 291.
Burial feasts, ii, 237. Burials, offerings at, ii, 240, 248. Burn or scald, charm for a, iii, 272, 311. Burning the dead, pagan custom of, abolished, ii, 252.
Burns's poem' Halloween,' i, 380. Burre, or Brugh, about the moon, iii, 145.
Bush, the badge of a country ale-
Butchers, ancient regulation concern-
ing, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, i, 63. Butler's box at Christmas, i, 496. Butter, charm used in churning of, iii, 312-3. Buxton well-dressing, 1846, account of, ii, 373.
BUZZA, TO BUzza One, ii, 343. Buzzards, or kites, superstition con- cerning, iii, 213, 214.
Byson, holy, explanation of the term, i, 487.
Caermarthen, custom of bidding at, ii, 147.
Caerwis, in Wales, custom at on the eve of Thursday after Trinity Sun- day, i, 293.
"Cagg, to cagg," a military term, explained, iii, 263.
Xaupe, the parting exclamation of the Greeks, ii, 272.
Caistor church, singular custom at, on Palm Sunday, i, 130-1. Cake at Twelfth-tide, i, 22-8.
baked in honour of the Virgin's lying-in, i, 25. groaning, ii, 70.
or bannock, St. Michael's, i, 372.
night, the eve of All Saints,
so called at Ripon, in York- shire, i, 392. Calamint, used as a charm, iii, 314. Caldelia, sea monster so called,
iii, 222. Calf, superstition in the co. of Stir- ling, of forcing cow-dung into its
mouth as soon as calved, iii, 257. Callander, co. Perth, Baltein custom retained at, i, 225.
Callot, etchings of gipsies by, iii, 98. Calypso, iii, 5.
Cambridge, May-day custom at, i, 221. Lord of Misrule at, i, 497, 504. custom of blowing horns in, on the 1st of May, ii, 22. harvest-home customs at, ii, 22. riding the Stang at, ii, 188-9. cucking-stool in use at, iii, 104. Cambuca, the Latin name of golf, ii, 418.
CAMELEON, THE, iii, 368. CAMP, game of, ii, 404. Campana, etymology of, ii, 213. Campsie, co. Stirling, Lyke-wakes at, ii, 229.
Candle, holy, used at childbirths, | Carnival, Roman, vestiges of the, in
CANDLE OMENS, iii, 180-1. CANDLEMAS DAY, i, 43, 51.
traditions relating to the wea- ther on, i, 50.
account of, from Naogeorgus, i, 46.
proverbs relating to, i, 50. weather omens on, i, 51.
Candlemas Eve, ceremonies for, from Herrick's Hesperides,' i,
Candles, hallowing of, on Candlemas Day, i, 45.
wax, lighted at wheat seeding by the monks of St. Ed- mundsbury, i, 392. burning of, over a corpse, ii, 234.
dead men's, iii, 237, 238. Canisbay, co. Caithness, superstition of the Sinclairs in, ii, 50. Canker, charm for a, iii, 271. Canopy, velvet, used at marriages by the Jews, ii, 142.
Canterbury, the celebration of Christ- mas first put down at, i, 518. Canute, St., i, 365. "Canum Ululatus," iii, 184. Capon bell, ii, 210.
Capons, a usual present from tenants to their landlords on New Year's Day, i, 11.
Cappy-hole, ii, 407.
Shrovetide, i, 64. account of the, from Joannes Boemus Aubanus, i, 64. how celebrated at Minorca, i, 69.
custom of interring, at Mar- seilles, on Ash Wednesday, i, 100.
Carol, Christmas, i, 480.
"Gloria in excelsis," the earli- est, i, 480.
Anglo-Norman, of the 13th century, with a translation, i, 481.
for a wassail bowl, i, 5.
on serving up the boar's head, i, 484.
ancient Scottish, i, 487.
later carols, i, 488-9-90.
in praise of the holly, i, 522. Carp eaten for supper at Hamburgh on Christmas Eve, i, 473. Carr Fryetag, i, 113.
Carrier, the witches, iii, 7. CARRYING EVERGREENS AT FUNE- RALS, ii, 249.
CARTER'S INTERJECTIONS, ii, 15. Carthage, Juno presides over, i, 365. Carting, ancient method of, in Lon- don, i, 89.
Carvers invoking cuckolds' names to hit joints, ii, 199, 200. Casting off the bride's left hose, ii, 170.
CARDS, POPULAR NOTICES CONCERN-CASTING OF STONES, ii, 406.
CAT I' THE HOLE, ii, 408. Cat in pan, turning the, iii, 388. CATHARINE'S DAY, ST., i, 410-14. Camden's account of the cele- bration of, in Ireland, i, 410. Catharine, St., charms of, i, 411. "Cathedra Stercoris" of Domesday, iii, 103.
Catherning, i, 411-12. Catoptromancy, iii, 170.
Cats, their playfulness at sea portends a storm, iii, 188.
locked up in Orkney, when a corpse is laid out, ii, 232. their leaping over a corpse portends misfortune, ii, 233. reverenced by the Egyptians, iii, 38.
CATS, RATS, and MICE, superstitions relating to, iii, 187. "Cattaring a," custom of, in Worces- tershire, i, 412.
Cattle, evil-eye against, iii, 46.
Caldron of the witches, as described
by Olaus Magnus, iii, 9.
CAUL, CHILD's, iii, 114-19.
Cawood, ancient gold ring found at, Charm, derivation of the word, iii,
CHARMS, upon St. Blaze's Day, i, 52. against St. Vitus's dance,
and spells in Scotland on All-
hallow Even, i, 380-4. bound to the thigh of a lying- in woman, ii, 67.
against barrenness, ii, 69. relating to children, ii, 77, 81. rags used as charms at wells, ii, 380-1.
for diseases, iii, 49, 269. notice of, from the translation
of Naogeorgus, iii, 255. from Bale's Interlude concern- ing Nature, Moses, and Christ, iii, 256, 297, 310. in odd numbers, iii, 263-9. physical, iii, 269, 306.
for diseases noticed in the classics, iii, 300.
Charms, poetical, iii, 256-7-8, 271, | Children, thought unlucky in the
Chart, dumb borsholder of, i, 220. Chaucer, description of Valentine's Day from, i, 53.
Chequers, why a common sign of a public-house, ii, 353.
CHEEK, NOSE, and MOUTH OMENS, iii, 174-6.
Cheese, aversion of some persons to, ii, 37.
pieces of, tossed in the mid- wife's smock, ii, 71. Cheesecakes, a principal dainty at the feast of sheep-shearing, ii, 37. Chelsea royal bun-houses, i, 156. Cherry fairs, ii, 457.
CHERRY-PIT, ii, 409.
Cheshire, ceremony of lifting retained in, i, 182.
country wakes in, ii, 11.
North of England to go over their graves, ii, 73. watched in Scotland till the christening is over, ii, 73. superstition at their not crying when baptized, ii, 78.
in Northumberland, when first sent abroad with the nurse, presented with an egg, salt, and fine bread, ii, 81. earth and whiskey the first food of, in the Highlands, ii, 80.
superstitions relating to, in Ireland, ii, 78.
superstition relating to bread and butter of, ii, 81.
names of different warriors used to terrify perverse, ii,
custom of lustrating by spittle, iii, 259.
custom of perambulation in, CHILD'S CAUL, iii, 114-19.
in Rogation week, i, 206.
riding full speed at wed- dings in, ii, 153.
Chester, Shrove-Tuesday customs at, i, 92.
Midsummer plays at, i, 329. Chevalet, un, the French name for the hobby-horse, i, 270.
Chichely, Sir Robert, extract from the will of, relating to his month's mind, ii, 314. Chicory, juice of, iii, 298. CHILD-BEARING, CHURCHING, and CHRISTENING CUSTOMS, ii, 66,86. Childbirth, French customs at, ii, 68.
advertisements in news-
papers for, iii, 116-17.
Chilham, co. Kent, May custom at, i, 220. Chimney-sweepers, May-day custom of the, in London, i, 231. China, famous for its bells, ii, 214. Chincough, how cured, iii, 272. Chinese, ploughings of the, i, 510. CHIROMANCY, iii, 348-50.
" Chorea gladiatoria, de, vel armifera saltatione," i, 511. "Chorus armatus," i, 514. Chrisome, meaning of, ii, 83. pie, ii, 83.
"Christ, ane song on the birth of," i, 487.
CHILDERMAS, or HOLY INNOCENTS Christchurch,
DAY, i, 535-7.
Child-Bishop's sermon on,
at St. Paul's, i, 431.
unlucky to marry on, ii, 167.
co. Hants, extract from the register of, ii, 299.
curious recipes in the parish
register of, iii, 306.
Children dying unbaptized in Scot-Christ College, Cambridge, singularity
land, supposed to wander in
in the foundation of, iii, 264.
woods and solitudes ii, 73. CHRISTENING CUSTOMs, ii, 77,
Christening entertainments, ii, 80.
Christenings, presents at, ii, 78, 86. sermons formerly preached at, ii, 85.
Christian IV. of Denmark practises riding at the ring, ii, 437. Christians, early, custom of, upon the Circumcision, i, 15.
of Mesopotamia, customs of, on Easter Day, i, 171. ancient, divination among the, by opening the Old and New Testament, iii, 337.
CHRISTMAS, Customs a little before, at, or about, i, 454.
the word YULE, formerly used to signify, i, 474. continuance of the days of, i, 21
marked by a wheel in the Runic Fasti, i, 298.
block, i, 467. candles, i, 467.
kariles, i, 469.
called the Feast of Lights in the Western or Latin church, i, 471.
named by Gregory Nazianzen and St. Basil the Theophany, i, 473.
gambols, enumeration of, i, 505.
ivy, i, 520.
CAROL, i, 480-91.
an Anglo-Norman, i, 481. of the time of Henry VI, i, 483.
ancient, sung in bringing up the boar's head, i, 484. ancient Scottish, i, 487. from Withers's Juvenilia,
Christmas Carol, custom of singing,
on Christmas Day, in the Scilly Islands, i, 490. Day, early MS. poem illustra- ting the popular belief regarding, i, 478. account of, from Barnabe Googe's translation of Naogeorgus, i, 518.
the observation of, forbidden in the time of the Com- monwealth, i, 518. custom of hunting owls and squirrels on, in Suffolk, i, 489.
DECKINGCHURCHES,HOUSES, &c., AT, WITH EVERGREENS, i, 519.
EVE, i, 467-74.
wassailing custom on, in Nottinghamshire, i, 31. Yule clog on, i, 467. superstition on, in Devon- shire, relating to the oxen, i, 473.
carp eaten for supper on, at Hamburgh, i, 473. ceremonies on, noticed by John Herolt, a Domini- can friar, i, 473.
women strike a swinish
hour on, i, 532.
LORD OF MISRULE, i, 497. PIES, i, 526-32.
coffin of the, in imitation of the cratch or manger in which our Saviour was laid, i, 178.
Misson's account of the, i, 528.
verses on, from Herrick, 529.
prince,or Lordof Misrule, i,498. at St. John's College, Ox- ford, i, 498.
sung to the king at White-Christopher, St., i, 359, 364-5.
in Touraine, a cock offered to,
to cure the white flawe in men's fingers, i, 356.
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