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vice as much land as he could ride round while the Bishop dined—called the Pollard lands; held by presentation of a falchion; the head presented by another knight to the King, 285–7
Polyphemus story in Yorkshire, 195–6
Portents and Auguries, 110–137
Portents: surrounding marriage on Borders, 34–5; of death on Borders, 45; brood of cock chickens, 110; vegetables of unusual shape, ib.; single or nine, pea pod, ib.; four-leaved clover; even ash-leaf, ib., 113; spider on clothes; loss of hair; mysterious noises; dreaming of loss of teeth, of fire, weddings, and water; stockings inside out; sparks in candle; three candles alight, 111; crooked sixpence; tip of dried tongue; meeting eye-brows; eggs in a setting; washing hands with another person; burning hair; itching nose, foot, hand, or ear, 112; shivering and stumbling; snuffing out candle; singing before breakfast; fastening dress awry; mole on neck, white specks on nails; snakes and glowworms; month of May; daisies, violets, and primroses, 113; eating pancakes and grey peas; giving mistletoe to cow; turning money at sight of new moon; the new moon, 114; catching a falling leaf; May moons, kittens, and babies, 115; boiling a dishclout; putting milk in tea before sugar; black snails; white horses; meeting left-handed persons; entering house left foot foremost, 116; meeting a man with flat feet; meat shrinking or swelling in pot; sweeping dust from house; turning back after leaving home; watching a person “out of sight;” lending a pin, 117; giving a knife, 118; burning evergreen decorations; pointing to or counting the stars; collecting hailstones; money in pockets of new clothes; gifts from sellers of cattle, 119; seeing first lamb of year; a fox bite; spilling or helping to salt; turning or breaking loaf; pulling first stone from church, 120; first corpse in churchyard; first baptism in a new font; entering a new church (Germany), 121; rooks and swallows, 122, 123; killing house crickets, 122; destroying nests of swallow, robin, and wren, 123, 124, 125; the yellow hammer, 123; cock crowing on threshold; humble bee entering house; song of robin, 124; hunting the wren, 125; bat, raven, crow, and magpie, 126, 127; Gabriel, yeth or wisht hounds, 129–136; herring-spear or piece (redwings), 131; seven whistlers (curlews), 131; sneezing, 136–7
Potter’s Grecian Antiquities quoted on Coskiomancy of Ancients, 233
Powries or Dunters haunt old castles; make loud beatings which portend misfortune, 255
Presages of death, see Death
Presbyterian divines and witchcraft, 7
Preston, belief that a church has sunk into the earth at, 121
Primroses: unlucky to take the first into a house, 50—taking a few kills young poultry, 183
Procession of trades companies at Durham on Corpus Christi, 86
Proverbs: “as black as the de’il’s nutting-bag,” 96; “crooked things, lucky things,” 231; “he caps Bogie, Bogie capt Redcap, and Redcap capt Old Nick,” 254; “he caps Wryneck and Wryneck caps the Dule,” 254; “marry in May, rue for aye,” 34; “some witch has shaken hands with him
