Nicholas, St., the patron of mariners, | Northamptonshire, customs of the
liberty of Warkworth in, ii, 31-2. Northumberland, custom in on a New Year's Day, i, 15.
freedom of Alnwick, in, i,
May feast in, i, 222. Midsummer fires in, i, 318. stools dressed with flowers in, on Midsummer Day, i, 319.
custom of, on St. Peter's Eve, i, 337.
rural sacrifice of nuts in, i, 378.
custom in, at Martinmas, i, 400.
sword-dance of, i, 513-4. harvest home in, ii, 29. superstition in, relating to children when first sent abroad with the nurse, ii, 81.
christening customs in, ii,81. arvel dinner in, ii, 238. Northumberland Household Book, extracts from, concerning the boy bishop, i, 423.
Norway, St. Anscharius and St. Olaus the patron saints of, i, 364. Norwich, sports anciently used at, on Fastyngonge Tuesday, i, 68. Nose, itching of the, iii, 174-5. Nosegays at weddings, ii, 118.
presented by poor women to Queen Elizabeth, ii, 120.
NOT, GAME OF, ii, 434. Nottingham, ancient Midsummer watch at, i, 328.
geese eaten at, on the elec- tion of a new mayor, i, 371.
custom at, of going to St. Anne's well, ii, 379.
Nottinghamshire, wassailing custom in, on Christmas Eve, i, 31.
custom of mothering in,
November, fire of, among the Welsh, | Oak apple, presages drawn from the,
Latin epigrams upon, i, 402. 17th, the day of Queen Eliza- beth's accession, i, 404. when first observed, i,
405. NOVEMBER, FIFTH of, i, 397-8.
Oakley, co. Surrey, rose trees planted
on graves at, ii, 312.
Oats, divination with the stalk of, i, 381.
Oberon, emperor of the fairies, cloth- ing of, described, ii, 500-2.
"Nuces in pretio et religiosa," i, Oberon's diet, ii, 502.
Oblationes funerales, ii, 286.
377. "Numerus infaustus," tract so named, Obsession of the Devil, iii, 72. iii, 268. Oculus, the Roman term, i, 75.
"Numero Deus impare gaudet," iii, ODD NUMBERS, Charms in, iii, 263.
Num-groats, ii, 333.
Nunchion, etymology of, i, 352. Nun's, St., well, iii, 295.
Nuptial drinking, ii, 136.
garlands, ii, 123.
NUPTIAL KISS IN THE CHURCH, ii,
Eufs, de l'usage de donner des, dans
les fêtes de Nouvel An, et de Pâques, i, 17.
Offerings at burials, ii, 286.
at wells, ii, 375.
Offam Green, co. Kent, wedding quintain at, ii, 163.
Oidhche Shamna, or vigil of Saman, i, 395.
Nuremberg, St. Sibald the patron Old Coles, apparition of, iii, 87.
saint of, i, 364.
Nut, Virgin Mary's, iii, 46.
NUTCRACK NIGHT, i, 377-96.
Old Fools, feast of, removed to the 1st of November, i, 135.
Old Harry, ii, 520.
Nut-gathering on Holy Rood Day, i, Old Martin-mas, i, 410.
Nuts, burning of, i, 378-9, 381.
in pairs, i, 381.
Gay's notice of, in his Spell, i, 378.
lines on, by C. Graydon, Esq., i, 379.
cracking of, on Allhallow Eve, i, 377.
Roman sports with, i, 377. used in the superstitions under Papal Rome, i, 377.
in Scotland, i, 378. in Ireland, i, 379.
O, round, of a milk-score, i, 156. Oak, ancient, at Brockenhurst, Hampshire, ii, 259. Oak, royal, i, 275.
Old Nick, ii, 519.
Old Scratch, ii, 520.
Old shoe, superstitions relating to an, iii, 168.
Old wives' lees, in Chilham, i, 220. Ombre, ii, 450. OMENS, iii, 110-13.
occurrence of, at James the
Second's coronation, iii, 112. among sailors, iii, 239-41.
ONIONS AND FAGOTS, Divination by, in ADVENT, iii, 356-7.
Ονομαστήρια, iii, 260.
ONYCHOMANCY, or ONYMANCY, Di- vination by the Finger-nails, iii, 177, 350-1.
in Ophelia's grave, commentators' notes upon, ii, 296.
description of, and verses on the, at Boscobel, i, 275. mistletoe of the, i, 524-5.
Op sijn Frize, ii, 330.
Orange stuck with cloves, a New Year's gift, i, 11.
Orations, funeral, ii, 279.
Ordeal, vestige of the, in leaping over | Oxford, divisions of parishes in, mark-
belief of the inhabitants of, in fairies and witches, iii, 32.
charms used in, iii, 274. Ormistoun, co. Lothian, yew tree at, ii, 263.
Orpyne plants, commonly called Mid- summer men, i, 329-30. exhibited on a gold ring found at Cawood, in York- shire, i, 330.
- love divinations with, i, 330. OSTRICHES eating and digesting IRON, iii, 365.
Oswald, St., well dedicated to, near the foot of Roseberry Toppinge, ii, 380.
Ottery, St. Mary, statute of the church of, relating to the feast of the Innocents, i, 428. Oundle, co. Northampton, supersti- tions relating to the well at, ii, 369.
OWL, the, an omen, iii, 206-10. Owls and squirrels, rural practice of hunting, on Christmas Day, i, 489.
why persecuted, iii, 208. "Ovum Anguinum," iii, 287, 369. "Ovum Paschale," i, 168. Oxen or neat, omens of weather gained from, iii, 204-44. Oxford, custom of Terræ filius at, i, 72. processional customs at, on Holy Thursday, i, 199.
ed by crosses cut in the stones of buildings, i, 200. blowing horns and hollow canes at, all night, on the eve of the 1st of May, i, 213. assembling of the choristers on Magdalen College Tower at, i, 213.
St. Frideswide patron saint of, i, 364.
boar's-head carol at Queen's College in, i, 485. Christmas princes, or lords of misrule at, i, 498. groaning cheese retained at, ii, 71.
custom in many of the colleges at, of awakening students in the morning, ii, 214. curfew bell at, ii, 220. epitaph in St. John Baptist's College in, ii, 251.
ceremony adhered to in Queen's College in, by the scholars when waiting on the fellows, ii, 331.
Oxfordshire, custom in, on Valentine's Day, i, 60.
Shrove Tuesday,i,87-8. the week before Easter,
on May Day, i, 219.
Oy, explanation of, ii, 333. Oysters, time of their coming in, at London, i, 346.
unseasonable in months that have not an R in their names, i, 346.
Pace-eggers' song, i, 176. Paddington, co. Middlesex, custom of
throwing cakes or bread from the church steeple of, i, 166; ii, 288. Pædonomus at Christmas in West- minster school, i, 440. Paganalia, i, 494; ii, 2. Palilia, feasts so called, i, 306.
PALL and UNDERBEARERS, ii, 284-5.
parish accounts relating to, Passion, or Carling Sunday, i, 113.
rites peculiar to Good Friday
used on, i, 114.
Passion dock, pudding of, i, 150. Passover, Jewish mode of celebrating the, i, 171.
Pastoral staff, origin of the, iii, 332. Pastures, blessings implored upon, on St. Stephen's Day, i, 534. Patrick, St., i, 108, 364. PATRICK'S DAY, ST., i, 108-10. Paula, funeral of, ii, 284.
Paulinus, bishop of Nola, large bells used in churches invented by, ii, 213.
Paul's, St., Cross, full of reliques set on the steeple of, to preserve from danger of tempests, ii, 218. Paul's Cray, Kent, garlands formerly suspended in the church of, ii, 304. PAUL'S DAY, ST., i, 39, 42.
Paul's School, St., extract from the statutes of, i, 431.
Paulus Æmilius, superstition of, iii, 246.
Pauntley, custom at, on the eve of Twelfth-day, i, 33.
Pawnbroker's sign, origin of the, ii, | Perthshire, wells and springs dedicated
Peach tree, superstition from the fall- ing of the leaves of the, iii, 248. Peacocks' feathers, garland of, iii, 392. PEACOCKS, Superstitions concerning, iii, 217-8.
Peal, a funeral or dead, ii, 219. PEARIE, ii, 434.
Peas on Carling Sunday, i, 113-4-5. PEASCOD WOOING, ii, 99, 100. Peel Castle, Isle of Man, crypt near, iii, 265.
Peeping Tom of Coventry, i, 286-7. Peg-a-lantern, iii, 395.
Pelagia, request of, to her son, con- cerning her funeral, ii, 229. PELICAN, iii, 366-7.
Penance for ante-nuptial fornication, ii, 95.
Pendrell, Richard, custom of deco- rating his tomb on the 29th May, i, 274.
Penny weddings in Scotland, ii, 147-8. Pepys, extract from his Diary, Valen- tine's Day, 1667, i, 58-9. St. David's Day, i, 105. goes to Woolwich to gather May-dew, i, 218. Perambulations, parochial, in Roga- tion Week, i, 197. Percy, Thomas, dinner at the funeral of, A.D. 1561, ii, 239.
Percy, James, the claimant of the earldom of Northumberland in 1680, had a mole like a half-moon on his body, iii, 253. Περιδειπνον, ii, 238. Perilla, verses to, from Hesperides, ii, 235. Persians, festival of the solar year kept by, on the 20th March, i, 170.
sneezing a happy omen among the, iii, 124. Perth, street called "Couvre-Feu Row" in, ii, 224. Perthshire, popular superstitions in, iii, 294-5.
to St. Fillan in, iii, 295. Peruvians, custom amongst the, when bringing home the maize from the field, ii, 21.
Peter ad Vincula, St., i, 365. Peter, St., i, 365.
presides over the castle of St. Angelo, i, 364.
and St. Paul, ceremonies used by the Irish on the eve of, i, 337.
PETER'S DAY, ST., i, 337.
London watch on its vigil, i, 338.
Petrel, stormy, iii, 222. Petting-stone, custom of the, in Holy Island, ii, 167.
Philip and James, Saints, custom in Eton school on the festival of, i, 430.
Phillips, Ambrose, parody on the style of, ii, 364. Philtres, iii, 307.
PHENIX, the, iii, 366. Phooka, the, ii, 508.
PHRASES and EXPRESSIONS, Ob- scure, iii, 304.
PHYSICAL CHARMS, iii, 269-309. Physicians the only persons at present who interpret dreams, iii, 131. PHYSIOGNOMY, Divination by, iii, 355. Picardy, women of, called the de-
ceased by his name, while carrying to the grave, ii, 272. PICCADILLY, or PICARDILLY, ii, 435. Pickelen, the Dutch name for huckle- bones, ii, 412.
Picks, the suit of diamonds so called at cards, ii, 449.
Pictures, votive, in the Temple of Neptune, i, 419.
Pie-powder, court of, ii, 468. PIGEON HOLES, GAME OF, ii, 435. Pigeon, a white, an omen of death, iii, 218. Pigeons' feathers, supposed properties of, ii, 230; iii, 232.
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