Index.
281
- 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