Charms, poetical, iii, 256-7-8, 271, | Children, thought unlucky in the
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, 516.
custom of lustrating by spittle,
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.
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.
Chicory, juice of, iii, 298. CHILD-BEARING, CHURCHING, and CHRISTENING CUSTOMS, ii, 66,86." Childbirth, French customs at, ii, 68. CHILDERMAS, or HOLY INNOCENTS DAY, i, 535-7. Child-Bishop's sermon on, at St. Paul's, i, 431. unlucky to marry on, ii, 167. Children dying unbaptized in Scot. land, supposed to wander in woods and solitudes ii, 73.
Christ, ane song on the birth of," i, 487. Christchurch, co. Hants, extract from the register of, ii, 299.
curious recipes in the parish register of, iii, 306.
Christ College, Cambridge, singularity in the foundation of, iii, 264. 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, i, 529. prince,orLordof 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.
Christ's Hospital, Queen Elizabeth's | Churchyards, yew trees in, ii, 255-66.
accession still observed as a holi-
Chrysolite, iii, 300.
Chrysostom, St., observation of, on some African conjurors, iii, 81. CHUMMING-UP, Custom of, ii, 457. Church-ale, derived from the Aуañаí, or love-feasts, mentioned
superstition respecting burial
on the north side of, ii, 292-7.
flat stones in, ii, 301. CHURN-SUPPER, ii, 27.
Churning butter, charm for, iii, 312-3.
Circles of conjurors, iii, 58.
in the New Testament, Circos, a sort of tame hawk, accounted i, 282. a lucky omen at weddings with the Romans, ii, 165.
Stubbs's description of the,
in his Anatomie of Abuses,' i, 280.
Circumcision, custom of the early Christians to go masked on the, i, 462.
door, endowment of the bride Cities, patron saints of, i, 364-5.
monuments indicate change of weather, iii, 243. CHURCH-PORCH, FUNERALS IN THE, ii, 245.
watching in the, i, 192, 331. Churches anciently strewed with rushes, ii, 13.
strewing of, with herbs and flowers, on days of humilia- tion and thanksgiving, ii, 13, 14. monuments in, indicate change of weather, iii, 243. variation of the position of, as regards east and west, ac- counted for, ii, 6. decoration of, on the calends of May, i, 216. at Christmas, i, 520-1. Churching of women, ii, 75, 76. Herrick's verses relating to, ii, 76.
usual offering at, at Dunton, in Essex, ii, 84.
feast, ii, 80. sermon, ii, 85. CHURCHYARDS, ii, 290-9.
ghosts keeping the gates of, ii, 299.
Ciudadella, chapel of St. Nicholas at i, 419.
Clack dish, beggar's, iii, 94. Clap-dish, iii, 94. Clape, Osgod, i, 189. Clara, St., i, 364-5.
Claret, burnt, used at funerals, ii, 242. Clavergrasse, weather omen drawn from, iii, 247.
Claybrook, co. Leic., Macaulay's ac-
count of the celebration of the church wake at, ii, 112. riding for the bride-cake at, ii, 155.
custom at, of sending a gar-
land of willow to a disap- pointed lover, i, 124. funeral customs at, ii, 250. Cleansing week, i, 172. Clement, St., i, 364-5. CLEMENT'S DAY, ST., i, 408.
annual ceremony observed by the blacksmiths' apprentices of the dockyard at Wool- wich, i, 408.
Clent, custom of "crabbing the par- son" at, on St. Kenelm's Day, i, 342. Clergy, benefit of, iii, 382. "Clerk's ale," i, 180, 279. Clerks, St. Nicholas's, i, 418.
Commons, case of the, i, 436. Cliff, co. Kent, custom at, on St. James's Day, i, 346. Cligne-musset, ii, 397.
Climacteric year, iii, 267.
Cloak, turning the, a charm against | fairies, ii, 503.
Clock, the old name for bell, ii, 213. Clocks, introduction of, ii, 213. Clog, meaning of, i, 468. Cloud, St., i, 360.
Cloven-foot, the devil's, ii, 517. Cloveshoo, litanies or rogations or- dered by the canons of, i, 203. Clovis, divination practised by, from the book of Psalms, at the shrine of St. Martin, iii, 337. Club-ball, ii, 407.
Coal, superstitious finding of, under the roots of mugwort and plantain, i, 334.
"Coal-fire, dance round our," i, 310. Coal-mine, vulgar error relating to the opening of a, near London, iii, 379. Cob, or cobbing, ii, 411. Cob-loaf-stealing, i, 465.
Cock-throwing, custom of, i, 72.
origin of, wrongly ascribed to Henry V, i, 74.
song on, from Lluellin's poems, i, 78.
Cock vane, whence derived, ii, 56. Cock and Pie, sign of, ii, 355. Cock-lane ghost, iii, 86. COCKLE-BREAD, GAME of, ii, 413. Cockles, omens of weather, iii, 241. Cockney, origin of the term, i, 75. King of, i, 536.
Cocks, shying at, i, 81-2.
augury by, iii, 219-20. and pence, offering of, at the feast of St. Nicholas, i, 431.
Cocks-comb, i, 263.
Coel-coeth, or Coelcerth, custom of, i, 389. Coffee-grounds, divination by, iii, 330. Coffin of the present age described by Durand, ii, 232.
Cock, why dedicated to Apollo, ii, 54. Coffins of Christmas pies, i, 178, 528.
threshing of the, i, 80.
offered to St. Christopher in Touraine, for the sore called a white flaw, i, 356.
COCKALL, ii, 412-3. Cockatrice, iii, 220. COCK-CROWING, time of the morn- ing so called, ii, 51-7. different times of, ii, 54-5. COCK-FIGHTING, ii, 57, 63.
supposed to have been intro- duced into Britain by the Romans, ii, 60. derived from the Athenians, i, 69.
retained in many schools in Scotland till within the last century, i, 69. forbidden by the Council of Copria, i, 70.
a Shrove-Tuesday sport, i, 73. curious notice of, in the Plumpton correspondence, i, 79. Cockpit, Whitehall, whence named, ii, 61.
Coffins called kists, i. e. chests, in
old registers, ii, 232.
coals flying from the fire in the shape of, iii, 113.
Coiche-bais, iii, 61.
Coif, judge's, antiquity and origin of the, iii, 117.
"Coiffée être né," iii, 114. Coke, to cry, ii, 58.
| Cole, meaning of, in Welsh, i, 124. Colepexie's fingers, ii, 513. Coleshill, co. Warwick, Easter cus- tom at, i, 177. Colin-maillard, ii, 397. "Collier's Wedding," ballad of the, ii, 160-71.
Colliers in the north of England. cock-fighting a favorite sport with the, ii, 63. Collins, story of a mermaid, in notes to his Ode to Liberty, iii, 412. Collistrigium, iii, 109. Collonsey, isle of, custom in, of fan-
ning the face of a sick person with the leaves of a Bible, iii, 272. COLLOP, or SHROVE MONDAY, i, 62.
Cologne, the Three Kings of the East | Cooks, sermon to the, at Oxford, on
the patrons of, i, 364. their names used as a charm,
Colts-foot, down flying from, por- tends rain, iii, 245. Columbine, the, ascribed to those who are forsaken, i, 122. emblematical of forsaken lovers and of cuckoldom, ii, 199.
Coming again, or walking of spirits, iii, 67.
Commendation nine-pence, ii, 90. Common fires, i, 301.
Common-sewers, omen of weather, iii, 245.
Communion-table, bowing to the, ii, 317.
"Compitalia," feasts so called of the
ancients, i, 320, 511. "Complaynt of Scotland," account of the Borrowing Days from the, ii, 42. "Conclamatio," the funeral lament among the Romans, ii, 269. Confarreation, ii, 101. Congresbury, co. Somerset, summer custom at, i, 336. Conil's well, St., in Scotland, ii, 366.
Connan, St., well of, at Inishail, in Argyleshire, ii, 372.
Connaught, custom of fasting in, on Good Friday, i, 151-2. "Connubii Flores, or the well- wishers at weddings," ii, 161. Constantinople, sixth council of, for- bids the lighting up of bonfires at new moons, i, 310. Constantinopolitan synod, custom of personating bishops anathematised in, i, 421.
Conticinium, ii, 55.
Contracting cup, ii, 90.
Convulsions, to hold your left thumb with your right hand in, ii, 343.
fetching in the fly, i, 84. fellowship of, at Newcastle- upon-Tyne, keep up bon- fires on St. John Baptist's and St. Peter's Eves, i, 318. Coral, child's, superstitions relating to, ii, 85.
Coriander seed, effect of, as a charm, iii, 297.
Cork, riot at, in 1833, on account of St. John's fires, i, 305. Cormorants, superstitions concerning, iii, 218.
Corn, spell by pulling stalks of, in Scotland, i, 380.
blessings on, implored upon St. Mark's Day, i, 194. a payment of, at Martinmas, occurs in Domesday, i, 410.
Corning, custom of, in Warwickshire, on St. Thomas's Day, i, 392. Corn lady, or maiden, ii, 25. Cornlaiters, ii, 145.
Corns, superstitions relating to, iii, 242.
Cornucopiæ, ii, 185.
CORNUTES, ii, 181.
Cornutus, etymology of, ii, 184. Cornwall, ceremony
observed at Little Colan, in, on Palm Sunday, i, 130.
May customs retained in, i, 223-7.
Whitsuntide customs in, i,276. lighting bonfires in, on Mid-
summer Eve, i, 302. poles at the tin-mines of,
crowned with flowers on St. John's Day, i, 318. custom of lighting fires in, on Midsummer Eve, i, 319. saints' feasts in, ii, 5. harvest dinners in, ii, 26. Madern well, in, ii, 369. St. Euny's well in, ii, 370. punishment of the cucking- stool in, iii, 106.
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