Toasting, or drinking healths, ii, Tring, co. Hertford, cruelties exer- 338-42. Toasts of bits of riband, ii, 340. IN ALEHOUSES, ii, 362-6. Tobirnimbuadh, consecrated well of, ii, 381. Token, bent, ii, 94. Tokens, funeral, ii, 244. Trinity, the, how designated in toll- or TRINITY SUNDAY EVEN, Eve of Thursday after Trinity Gask, co. Perth, noted well at, Trololey, or Troleray, i, 458. Tolfrædic mode of computation, ii, TROULE-IN-MADAME, ii, 445. Tongue, co. Sutherland, funeral cus- Trump, ii, 449. Day, i, 44-5. at weddings, ii, 157. Torches consecrated on Candlemas TRUNDLING THE HOOP, ii, 446. TRUNKS, GAME OF, ii, 447. Tuck, explanation of the term, i, 84. and lights at funerals, ii, 276- TUCK, FRIAR, i, 257, 262. 279. TUMBRELL, iii, 103-4. Tottenham, co. Midd., holy wells at, Turkeys eaten on St. Martin's Day in ii, 369. Town-tops, ii, 448. TRANSLATION OF MARTIN, i, 339. TREBUCHET, or TRIBUCH, iii, 103-4. Trefoil, or clover grass, an omen of Paris, i, 368. Turkish marriages, torches used at, ii, Turks do not permit the use of bells, fond of astrology, iii, 348. the coal; a countercharm to "Trefoir, ou le tison de Noël, i, 468. Tutelar spirits, opinion of, i, 366-7. Tribuch, iii, 103-4. Twelfth cake, i, 22-3. TWELFTH DAY, i, 21, 34. custom in Staffordshire on the at Pauntley, in Gloucester- lines on, in the " Popish King- dome," i, 27-8. wassailing custom on, in De- in Herefordshire, i, 30. Twisted tree, or with, anciently the practice forbidden, i, 120. "Ule, Ule, Ule," "cry of, i, 476. Unburied persons, ghosts of, wander | Valentine's Day, choosing valentines how observed in France, i, 55. Gay's description of ceremonies verses on, by Buchanan, i, 57. custom on, in Norfolk, i, 60. Vanes on church steeples, origin of, Vanora, called also the British Helena, Vato, evil spirit so called, iii, 240. Uncumber, St., oats offered to, at St. Vegetables, omens from, iii, 247. Paul's, i, 360. UNDER THE ROSE, ii, 345. UNICORN, iii, 375. Unreason, Abbot of, i, 504-5. "U, P, K, spells May Goslings," i, Upsie-Freeze, ii, 330. Urine, dipping the feet in, a preser- Vacina, or Vacuna, the goddess to Veil, yellow, worn by brides, ii, 169. espousal of the Adriatic by the Venisa, St., i, 357. used as a charm, iii, 301. VESSEL-CUP, THE, i, 454. Vineyards, vulgar error relating to the Wakes, coutinuance of, desired at Exe- planting of, iii, 380. Vintners, custom of the, upon St. Urban's Day, i, 272. Violets, presages drawn from, iii, 248. Viper, druidical superstitions relating vulgar error relating to, iii, Virgin lady's funeral, rites of a, mi- Virgins, St. Nicholas the protector of, "Virgula divina," epigram on the, VITUS'S DAY, ST., i, 297. Vitus's, St., dance, charm against, i, "Vizards for a momerie," i, 465. Wace, Maître, metrical life of St. Wadds, a Scottish game, ii, 440. Waff, explanation of, iii, 228. Wake, origin and etymology of the, day, Tusser's notice of the, ii, 3. lines entitled The, from Her- Stubs's description of keeping ter and in Somersetshire, King Edgar's canon enjoining day after Trinity Sunday, custom in, on the eve of St. John Baptist, i, 307. All Saints' Eve, i, 389. cawsa or cheese in, ii, marriages of, contribution in, watching with the dead in, ii, 226. funeral doles in, ii, 289. custom of blessing in, ii, 303. Prayer on the graves of funeral customs in, ii, 309- well of St. Tecla in, at Llan- spitting at the name of the devil in, iii, 261. North, ceremony of heaving superstition in on Corpus Christi Day, i, 297. Wales, North, custom in, on the Sun- | Wassailing, ceremony of, as practised day after marriage, ii, 177. South, riding full speed at weddings in, ii, 155. custom of whitening houses Walnut tree, miraculous, at Glaston- having plenty of blossom, a Waltham, co. Leic., paper garlands Warren, William, Earl of, founder of at court on Twelfth Night, candle, i, 2. Wat, phenomenon so called, iii, 402. a similar watch kept up on Watching on St. Mark's Eve, i, 192; on St. John's Eve, i, 331; iii, 236. Water, divinations by, iii, 330. Wax used in the formation of gar- WEAPON-SHAWING, ii, 447. arms of the Earl of Warren, Weather, prognostications of the, on Warton, Madame, represented Lady Warts, charms for, iii, 276, 300. cure for, in Devonshire, iii, on New Year's Eve, i, 10. Warwickshire, customs in, on Easter WEATHER'S BELL, iii, 244. Monday, i, 181-3. Was-haile, explanation of the term, Washing the feet, custom of, on bowl on New Year's Eve, i, 4. Wassailers' songs on New Year's Eve, i, 5. Wechts, "To win three wechts o' Wedding cake, verses on the, ii, 166, Wedding ring, divination by fishing, Wells, praying and singing psalms at, for, with a ladle, i, 222. hieroglyphic of the, ii, 103. used by the Romans at their marriages, ii, 104. Welsh, ii, 146. month of May avoided for, ii, Weddings, ceremonials at, among the among the Japanese, ii, 158. music at, ii, 158-9. Week, days of the, homely rhymes Weep Irish, to, ii, 269. Well of St. Keyne, ballad of, ii, 384. WELLS and FOUNTAINS, Customs, several in London formerly noted, ii, 369. ladles of iron affixed to, ii, 386. ii, 378. leaving rags at, ii, 380-3. Wembdon, co. Somerset, St. John's Wenlock, custom at, in the Whitsun Wens and tumours, how cured, iii, Werington, co. Devon, harvest cus- Candlemas Day, custom in lustration in, round women superstition of the evil eye charms used in, iii, 274. Westminster Abbey, coronation stone in, iii, 294. Hall, lawyers in, pleaded "in Westminster school, Shrove Tuesday custom at, on the admission of Westmoreland, custom in, on New boys beg eggs in, on Easter Eve, i, 172. riding for the riband in, ii, 156. |