TENTH SEKIES.
103
Folk-lore :
Baskish soul, vii. 73
" Bat Bearaway," vii. 168, 258 ; viii. 15
Bee, ii. 26 ; viii. 329 ; ix. 433
Bees in China, x. 285
Birdcage falling, vii. 105
Bird's claw, vi. 366, 518
Birdscaring, i. 340
Black cat, v. 40
Brittany, viii. 409 ; ix. 17
Building customs, i. 407, 515
Burial in walls of buildings, ix. 75
Candlemas, xi. 324
Candles, three, vi. 508 ; vii. 54
Cat, black, iv. 505 ; viii. 227
Chick-pea, ix. 282, 374
Childbirth, i. 15
Chinese bat, viii. 15
Chinese disobedient son, x. 408
Chough, viii. 388
Christmastide, i. 172
Cleaning, early, and snow, ix. 210
Clocks stopped at death, iii. 124, 175
Cobweb, xi. 378
Cobweb pills, i. 205, 273, 317
Cock, white, v. devil, x. 34
Corpse lying over Sunday, i. 127
Counting bringing ill-luck, ix. 108 ; x. 137
Creole, ix. 227, 338, 494 ; x. 36
Crooked billet, ix. 190, 452 ; x. 38, 77
Crows crying against the rain, x. 88, 136, 415
Crucifixion, i. 426
Daffodil, vi. 347, 410
Death-bird, iv. 465, 515, 530 ; v. Ill, 112,
158, 215 ; vi. 117, 156, 173 ; vii. 409 ;
viii. 57, 192, 354 Devonshire, viii. 127 ; xii. 66 Devil : Giving his supper to the Devil, ii. 427 Diamonds and goat's blood, viii. 270, 356, 456 Dog-bite, ii. 428
Dolls in magic, ix. 168 ; x. 118, 195, 272 Donkeys, measles, and whooping-cough, x.
326, 398
Dorsetshire snake-lore, i. 168, 253, 333 Eel, ii. 149, 231, 331 Elder-bush, viii. 131, 211, 314, 475 Epiphany, xi. 6, 72 Evil eye, and scarlet, i. 148, 231 ; in England,
508 ; in Sicily, 514 ; in Italy, ix. 145, 216 Fijians and their teeth, iii. 373 Fisherman, x. 330 ; xii. 483 Flail, vi. 72, 274 French, xi. 106
Glass and drowning sailor, xii. 310 Good Friday and low tides, i. 310 Greenteenth (Jenny), i. 365 Hare and Easter, v. 292 Hare forecasting fire, xi. 310, 413, 458 Hare's heart stuck with pins, ii. 273 Holly tree, v. 167
Horseshoe, iii. 9, 90, 214 ; viii. 210 ; ix. 154 India, x. 327, 428, 495 Irish, iii. 204, 313, 357 Iron, iii. 348, 397
Japanese regarded as sorcerers, i. 347 Japanese spirits, ix. 34 Keogh family, ix. 167 Lady-bird, viii. 9, 116 Legless spirits, viii. 168, 277 ; ix. 34 Leicester, vi. 509
Life-star, vii. 129, 196, 257 ; viii. 34 Lincolnshire death, iv. 465, 515 ; v. 112
Folk-lore :
Liphook, viii. 486
Lithuanian, viii. 168, 277
Lizard with two tails, viii. 328, 391
Loaf, hollow, foretelling death, xii. 88, 155
Lunar halo, vi. 265, 338, 412
Lobishome, i. 327
Maiden-Garland, xii. 327
Marriage, xii. 484 ;
May Day festivals, i. 160
Medicine, v. 129, 195
Mermaid, ix. 371
Midsummer day, iv. 27
Moon, i. 125, 175, 252, 395 ; v. 185, 252 ; xii.
406, 518 ; and hair-cutting, iv. 29, 116,
173, 234 ; and mollusca, viii. 186, 317 Moorish love -charm, viii. 486 Muffin martyr in the Holy Land, xi. 7 Mulberry and quince, iv. 386, 438 ; v. 15 Murderer, disguised, i. 266, 395 New Year, v. 45, 94 Night-hags, vii. 26, 157 Nightingale and death, vii. 409 ; viii. 57,
192, 354
Number superstition, i. 369, 457 Orkney, xii. 483
Owl, in India, x. 327 ; in Japan, 409 Passover, xi. 324
Peacocks' feathers unlucky, i. 320 Phantom ship, xi. 489 Pigeon, xii. 287, 513 Pin witchery, ii. 205, 271, 376 Pins, as a charm, iii. 106 ; crooked, vii. 447,
496
Piper's Hole, ix. 289, 334, 356, 378 Polar inhabitants, iii. 30
Rain caught on Holy Thursday, iv. 447, 497 Roumanian, vi. 287, 455 Rubbing with hand of a corpse, iii. 340 Sailor, xii. 310, 483 Salt, i. 514
Scarlet and the evil eye, i. 148, 231 Sea-names, xi. 107 Seaweed needing rain, viii. 388 Signatures, doctrine of, xi. 209 Snake, x. 265, 316, 335, 377, 418 ; xi. 157,
506
Sneezing, xi. 7, 117, 173; xii. 97 Snow-rimes, i. 392, 511 Son, disobedient, in China, x. 408 Spanish, iv. 266 Spider cures, i. 205, 273 Spittle, i. 514 Springs, healing, vii. 90 Stepping over a child, ix. 227, 338, 494 ;
x. 36
Stones with holes, vii. 26, 157 Stork, x. 368, 438 Thunder, iii. 408 Thunderstorms, xii. 327 Tiger, x. 88, 135, 358 Toads burnt alive, ii. 271, 325 Tongue, slip of, xii. 89 Toothache, ii. 446 ; x. 121, 171 Trades and callings, iii. 465 Twin calves, ii. 406 Twins, vii. 387 ; viii. 54 Virgin Mary's nut, xii. 187, 256 Walking in two parishes on same day, xii.
89
Water hags, i. 319, 365 Wave, largest, x. 445, 511
