Page:Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, Etc., with an Appendix Containing a Rare Tract.djvu/324

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  • Holt, Constance, saved from drowning, 62
  • Holy water, use of, 124
  • Hornby chapel, 34
  • Hot cockles, game of, 136
  • Hulme Hall, 37
  • Hunting at Extwistle, 147


  • Idiot starved to death, 4
  • Ignanging and Ignagnus, 153
  • Ince Hall and the dead hand, 38
  • Inn, "Dule upo' Dun," 16
  • Inscription on written stone, 14
  • Inscription at Hornby church, 37


  • Jealous woman, revenge of, 175
  • Jem o' Bradeley, 212
  • Jeppe knave grave, 172


  • "Kent and keer," proverb, 193
  • Kersal Hall, traditions of, 41
  • Kersal moor, races at, 154
  • Kirkham, ducking stool at, 171
  • Knight murdered, 263


  • Lady in white, 22, 261
  • Lancashire v. Yorkshire, 144
  • Lancashire riddles, rhymes, 186, 188
  • Lancashire witches, revels of, 247, 257
  • Lancaster, mayor of, punished, 251
  • Lapland witches, account of, 258
  • Latham, Sir Thomas, 19
  • Latham and Knowsley, sayings, legend, 205, 259
  • Laws of Edward the Confessor, 133
  • Loggats, game of, 133
  • Lomax, James, otter hunter, 154
  • Lostock tower, description of, 44
  • Love's evil choice, 30
  • Lifting or heaving, 142
  • Liverpool fair, custom at, 95
  • Liverpool May-day customs, 96
  • Lucky bone, superstitions respecting, 236


  • Mabel Bradshaigh, penance of, 47
  • Mab's cross, 45
  • Manchester gallows and tumbrel, 171
  • Maid Marion, 108
  • Margery's pranks, 252
  • Marlock, meanings of, 86, 148
  • Marsh, George, footprint of, 77
  • Medicines, superstitions respecting, 225
  • Melletus on festivals, 124
  • Mellor Hall, 272
  • Men no seats in churches, 3
  • Milk or mickle stones, 54
  • Money, hidden, 55
  • Money, superstitions about, 227
  • Mischief night, 175
  • Miscellaneous superstitions, 217,
  • Moon superstitions, 238
  • Mortgage, the forfeited, 45
  • More of More Hall, 264
  • Morris dance, 137
  • Murder at Dilworth, 14
  • Murder, appeal of, 173


  • Nicker, derivation of, 29
  • Nine-holes, game of, 134
  • Norman punishment, 173
  • Notchel crying, 176
  • Nude men, races by, 159
  • Nuttall, William, ballad by, 11
  • Nuts, omens from, 222


  • Oat-cake lads, 239
  • Oat-cakes, presentation of, 127
  • Old Crambo, &c., 95
  • Omens or signs of death, 23
  • Omens from doves, specks, pip-pins, 228-230
  • O'Neal, rebellion of, 61
  • Origin of guilds, 97
  • Ormskirk, church bell at, 48
  • Osbaldeston Hall, legend of, 270
  • Oskatel, Sir, legend of, 20
  • Oswald's, St, Church, 61
  • Otter hunting, 154


  • Pace egg mummers, 101
  • Pack-sheeting, punishment of, 175
  • Pageants, maskings, &c., 81
  • Parker of Extwistle, hunting song, 147