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Catalogue of BTand Mate7'ial.

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Go round church seven times (three times, S. Wales), peep through keyhole, visions of doomed appear

Watch in porch ; appari- tions of doomed pass out

LOCALITY.

Montgomerysh.

South Wales.

IV, Local Festival Observance.

Mayoral Banquet ; presents to new Mayor, 1801 -

Oswestry.

V. Business Transactions.

Hiring Fairs (kept by O.S.) (Half-yearly hiring) -

Llandilo (nr. Swansea). Montgom. (Llansant- ffraid).

Planting fruit-trees and quickthorns.

SCOTLAND. I. Names. locality.

Samhain (first day of winter) ^ - Highlands and Hebrides.

All Saints' Day - - ^ - Highlands and Hebrides.

Hallowmas ----- General.

Hallow E'en, the Eve of Hallowmas General.

n. Natural Phenomena.

Fairies ride -----

Fairies ride on cats ... Fairies ride, dance, and cast knots Fairy Court rides, human captives recoverable . - . - The dead return to earth

Witches hold assemblies- mas Rade " Witches are abroad

Hallow-

Highlands and Hebrides,

Borders (Nithsdale). Galloway (Dairy). North-east.

Tale of Tamlane

Galloway, Renfrew, Ayr- shire, Highlands and Hebrides.

Galloway (Nithsdale). Galloway (Kirkpatrick).

I Should it fall, on Wednesday, forebodes hard winter.