Collistrigium, iii. 56.

Collonsey, Isle of, custom in, of fanning the
face of a sick person with the leaves of a
Bible, iii. 146.

COLLOP, or SHROVE MONDAY, i. 35.

etymology of Collop, i. 36.

Cologne, the three Kings of the East the pa-
trons of, i. 200.

their names used as a Charm, iii. 170.

Colt-pixy, ii. 294.

Colts-foot, down flying from, portends rain,
iii. 130.

Columbine, the, ascribed to those who are
forsaken, i. 72.

emblematical of forsaken lovers

and of cuckoldom, ii. 124.
Coming again, or Walking of Spirits, iii. 40.
Commendation Nine-pence, ii. 55.
Common Fires, i. 173.

Common-Sewers, omen of weather, iii. 130.
Communion Table, Bowing to the, ii. 194.
Compitalia," feasts so called of the ancients,
i. 182, 282.

"Complaynt of Scotland," account of the
Borrowing Days from the, ii. 26.
Computation, ancient mode of, iii. 274.
"Conclamatio," the funeral lament among
the Romans, ii. 154.
Confarreation, ii. 63, 64.

Congresbury, co. Somerset, Midsummer cus-
tom at, i. 171.

Conil's Well, St., in Scotland, ii. 260.
Conjurers, iii. 33.

Connan, St., Well of, at Inishail in Argyllshire,

ii. 227.

"Connubii Flores, or the Well-Wishers at

Weddings," ii. 101.

Constantinople, sixth Council of, forbids the
lighting up of bonfires at New Moons, i.
i. 178.
Constantinopolitan Synod, custom of person-
ating Bishops anathematised in,i. 232.
Conticinium, ii. 33.

Contracting Cup, ii. 55.

Convulsions, to hold your left thumb with
your right hand in, ii. 209
Cooks, Sermon to the, at Oxford, on fetching
in the Fly, i. 50.

fellowship of, at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, keep up bonfires on St. John
Baptist's and St. Peter's Eves, i. 181.
Coral, used as a Charm, iii. 155.

Child's, superstitions relating to, ii. 53.

Coriander seed, effect of, as a charm, iii. 159.
Cork, riot at in 1833, on account of St. John's
Fires, i. 176.

Cormorants, superstitions concerning, iii. 113.
Corn, spell by pulling stalks of, in Scotland,
i. 210.

blessings on, implored upon St. Mark's
Day, i. 115.

a payment of, at Martin-Mass, occurs in
Domesday, i. 225.

Corning, custom of, in Warwickshire on St.
Thomas's Day, i. 217.

Corn Lady, or Maiden, ii. 15.
Cornlaiters, ii. 91.

Corns, superstitions relating to, iii. 77, 129.
Cornucopiæ, ii. 117.
CORNUTES, ii. 113.

Cornutus, etymology of, ii. 104.

Cornwall, ceremony observed at Little Colan
in, on Palm Sunday, i. 70.

May customs retained in, i. 133, 139.
Whitsuntide customs in, i. 157.
lighting bonfires in, on Midsum-
mer Eve, i. 168.

- poles at the Tin-mines of, crowned
with flowers on St. John's Day, i. 182.
Saints' Feasts in, ii. 4.
Harvest dinners in, ii. 17.
Madern Well in, ii. 226.
St. Euny's Well in, ii. 226.
punishment of the Cucking Stool

in, iii. 55.

superstition in, for curing the Chin-
cough, iii. 146.

charms, variety of, in, iii. 200.
Cornwallis, Henrietta Maria, grave of, at
Fornham in Suffolk, stands North and
South, ii. 181.

Corporal Oath, iii. 215.

Corpse, kept four days among the primitive
Christians, ii. 143.

Candle, iii. 121, 126, 127.

laying out of a, ii. 144.

following of a, to the grave, ii. 153.
carried out of the world feet forward,
ii. 154.
Corpusance, iii. 219.

CORPUS CHRISTI DAY and PLAYS, i. 163-
165.

celebration of, at Aix in

Provence, i. 27.

Cowlstaffe, riding on a, ii. 121.

Cow's tail, an omen of weather, iii. 131.
Cowyll, the name in Wales for the Morning
Gift after Marriage, ii. 110.

Cox, Francis, retraction of, as a necromancer,
A.D. 1561, iii. 36.

Cozens, John, Bishop of Durham, v. Cosens.
Crab-Wake, the Wake so named at St. Ke-

nelm's, in the parish of Hales-Owen, in
Shropshire, ii. 10.

Craiguck, well of, at Avoch, in the co. of
Ross, ii. 225.

Cramp, charm against, iii. 172.

Cramp Fish, vulgar error concerning the, iii.
206.

Cramp Rings, hallowing of by the Kings of
England, i. 87, 89, iii. 150, 160.
Cranmer, Abp., loss of a MS. belonging to,
ii. 241.

"Crants," the German word for garlands, ii.
187.

Crapaudina, or Toad-stone, iii. 27, 28.
Cratche, i. 104.

Creed, custom of turning to the Altar at the,
retained at Oxford, ii. 197.

Creeling, custom of, in Scotland, ii. 56, 111.
Creeping to the Cross on Good Friday, i.

37.

through perforated Stones, iii. 149.
Crepitaculum, ii. 264.

Cresswell, Madam, funeral Sermon of, ii. 171.
Cribbidge, ii. 265.

Cricket, game of, ii. 243, 245.
CRICKETS, omens by, iii. 100, 121.
Cripple Goat, or Goabbir Bhacagh, ii. 16.
Crispin, St., i. 203.

Cross, Burness, &c., co. Orkney, New Year's
Customs in the parishes of, i. 7.

creeping to the, on Good Friday, i. 87.
Holy, recovery of the, by Heraclius, i.

194.

Buns on Good Friday, i. 88.
Candles, i. 29.

form, detestation of the, t. Cha. II. i. 90.
legged, sitting, used as a charm, iii. 139.
Marks on Cakes, i. 89.
Monday, i. 120.

or Gang-Week, i. 121.

Crosses, praying for the dead at, ii. 156.
Crosses of Palm carried about in the purse on
Palm Sunday, i. 74.

Crossthwaite Church, co. Cumb., privileges of
the minister at, i. 206.

Crow, plucking a, iii. 214.

killing a, within four miles of London,
iii. 205.

Crow Omens, iii. 113.

Crowdie, Scotch dish so called, i. 51.
Crown Office, vulgar error concerning the,
iii. 205.

Crows, superstitions concerning, iii. 110, 132.
vulgar errors concerning, iii. 112.
Croyland, the poor's Halfpenny of, i. 194.

Abbey, custom of giving little
Knives at, on St. Bartholomew's Day, i.
194.

the Arms of, three knives, ibid.
Cruden, in Aberdeenshire, late Wake at, ii.
143.

Crumcakes at Shrove-tide used in Berking
Nunnery, i. 52.

"Cruys Week," i. 121.

66

Crying the Mare," ii. 11.

CUCKING-STOOL, iii. 52–55.

etymology of Cucking, iii. 52, 53.

CUCKING STOOL, description of the Cucking
stool from Misson, iii. 54.
Cuckold, thinking of a, in carving, i. 207; ii.
125.

CUCKOLD, of the Word, ii. 122-127.
Cuckolds, witticisms on, ii. 124, 125.
Cuckow, sucks the Eggs of other birds, ii.
123.

his note so uniform that his name in
all languages seems to be derived from it,
ibid.

superstitions on first hearing the,
iii. 113.

ibid.;

--

unlucky to have no money in your
pocket when you hear the Cuckoo for the
first time, ii. 124.

called, by Green, the cuckold's
chorister, ibid.

Cuckow Ale, ii. 124.

Spit, vulgar error concerning, ii. 124.

Cudgeling, iii. 240.
"Cuerno," ii. 117.
Cuerpo, santo, iii. 219.

Cumberland, New Year customs in, i. 3, 9.
custom in on Easter Eve, i. 97.
Midsummer fires of, i. 182.
custom of newly-married pea-

sants begging corn in, ii. 91.

143.

bride-wain of, ii. 90, 94.
custom of daubing in, ii. 94.
Wake kept with the dead in, ii.

doles at Funerals in, ii. 176.
Luck of Eden Hall in, ii. 284.
Cumwhitton, co. Cumb., wake on the eve of

St. John at, i. 182.

Cunning Man, or fortune-teller, Butler's de-
scription of the, iii. 33, 34.
Cup, Contracting, ii. 55,

CURCUDDOCH, or CURCUDDIE, ii. 246.
Curfew-Bell, history of the, ii. 138.
Curse against Thieves, iii. 42.

Cushion-dance at Weddings, ii. 101, 102.
Cuthbert's Well, St., at Eden Hall in Cum-
berland, ii. 225.

Cuts, drawing of, iii. 179.

Cuttles, omens of Weather, iii. 128.

Cwintun, hymeneal game in Wales so called,

ii. 103.

Cyniver, sport of in Wales, i. 213.

Cypress, used among evergreens at Christmas,
i. 285.

Dab, meaning of, iii. 215.

Daffodil, divination with the, iii. 192.
"Dance round our coal-fire," i. 178.
Dance with Swords, i. 279, 282.

i.

Dances, custom of Kissing at the beginning of,
ii. 88.

Dancing at Weddings, ii. 101.

Joan Sanderson, or the Cushion
dance, ii. 102.

D'Ancre, Marshal, the wife of, executed as a
Witch, iii, 9, 19.

Dandelot, Mons., answer of to King Henry
III. of France as to the strange things
he had seen in England, ii. 10.
Dandelion, flying of down from, portends
rain, iii. 130.

Danes in England, Hoke-day the festival to
commemorate their destruction, i. 107,
108, 109.

massacre of the, by Ethelred, A.D.,
1002, i. 109.

customs among the, relating to new-
born children, ii. 44.

the tyranny of the, gives rise to the
custom of pledging, ii. 199, 200.
Danish Women, amulets used by, before they
put a new-born infant into the Cradle, ii.
44.

Daoine Shi', a species of Fairies, ii. 295.
Darien, Herb eaten at, by Women in labour,
iii. 159.

Dark Lanterns, vulgar error relating to, iii.

195.

diocese of, in 1662, concerning Morris
dancers, i. 149.

Day, civil and political, divided into thirteen
parts, ii. 32, 33.

DAYS LUCKY or UNLUCKY, ii. 27.

borrowed, in March, ii. 25.

of the week, homely rhymes on the, ii.
25.

perilous, in the different months, ii. 27.
Lord Burghley's advice to his son con-
cerning, ii. 30.

Dead, watching with the, ii. 140-143.
unlawful, anciently, to bury the, within
cities, ii. 179.

Dead-man's Hand, iii. 153.
DEAD-MEN'S CANDLES, iii. 126, 127.
Dead Ruttle, iii. 124.

"Deas Soil," iii. 148.

Death-howl in Africa, ii. 168.

Mould or Mole, iii. 93.

Omens peculiar to families, iii. 121.
Warrant, vulgar error about signing
the, iii. 205.

DEATH WATCH, iii. 119, 120.

DEATHS, CUSTOMS AT, ii. 128-147.

Debtors, custom of exacting Garnish money

Rush-bearing in, ii. 10.

garlands in churches in, ii. 184.
Deritend Chapel, Birmingham, ii. 198.
"Designatores," ii. 172.

Dessil, ii. 232, 283.

Diamond, the, used as a Charm, iii. 150.
Dibbs, game of, ii. 245.

Dick a Tuesday, iii. 218.

Dier, Mrs., practises conjuration against Queen
Elizabeth, iii. 9.

"Dies atri et albi," ii. 29.

"Dies Ægyptiaci," i. 22, ii. 27.

Digges, Sir Dudley, singular bequest of, i. 185.
Dijon, custom at, upon the first Sunday in
Lent, i. 55.

Dilston Hall, co. Northumberland, brook at,
ii. 225.

R

DINING WITH Duke Humphrey, iii. 208, 209.
Dinners, burial, instances of in former times,
ii. 148, 149.

Diocletian, story of the emperor, iii. 80.
Diseases, particular, Names of Saints invoked
against, i. 196.

Disguising, Christmas custom of, i. 251, 252.
forbidden by King Henry VIII.,

i. 253.
Dismas, St., i. 202.

Distaff and Spindle formerly carried before a
Bride, ii. 82.

Distaff's Day, St., or the morrow after Twelfth
Day, i. 15.

DIVINATION, iii. 173-192.

on May Day, preserved in Gay's

Shepherd's Week, i. 131.

with Nuts, i. 213.

with Pease-cods, ibid.
with Apple-parings, ibid.
AT WEDDINGS, ii. 103.
by the Psalter, iii. 187.
by Arrows, iii. 175.

BY VIRGILIAN, HOMERIC, or BI-

BLE LOTS, iii. 177.

iii. 179.

BY THE SPEAL or BLADE BONE,

by Batchelor's Buttons, iii. 180.
BY THE ERECTION OF FIGURES
ASTROLOGICAL, iii. 181.

189.

BY THE FINGER-NAILS, iii. 186.
BY SIEVE AND SHEARS, iii. 187.
BY ONIONS AND FAGGOTS, iii.

BY A GREEN IVY-LEAF, iii. 191.
BY FLOWERS, iii. 191.
Divining Rod, iii. 175—177.

Docks, seeds of, used as a Charm, iii. 165.
Dodd, Dr., singular superstition practised at
the execution of, iii. 147.
Dog-hanging, the name for a money-gather-
ing at a wedding in Essex, ii. 94.
Doge of Venice, espousal of the Adriatic by,

i. 118.

Dogs not allowed to pass between a couple
to be married, ii. 106.
HOWLING OF, iii. 97, 98.

DOLES and INVITING THE POOR TO FUNERALS,

ii. 176, 177.

Dolphin, an omen of weather, ii. 128.

"Dominica Refectionis," i. 63.

Donatian, St., i. 200.

Dorinda, Lines to, on Valentine's Day, i. 33.
Douay, figure of a Giant annually burnt at,
i. 185.

Douce, Francis, his translation of an Anglo-
Norman Carol, i. 263.
Dovers Meeting, i. 157.

Doves, superstitions concerning, iii. 113, 114.
Dough, meaning of, i. 289.

Dower, the woman's, anciently assigned at
the church door, ii. 84.

Downy Well, at Nigg, in Scotland, ii. 228.
Drachaldy, Well of, ii. 230.

Draco volans, iii. 218.

Dragon, custom of carrying about the figure
of a, on Midsummer Eve, i. 168.

flying Dragons, i. 182.

atmospheric phenomena so called, i.
183, iii. 217.

Draing, co. Elgin, custom of the Penny Wed-
ding at, ii. 93.

DRAW GLOVES, sport so called, ii. 246.
DRAWING DUN OUT OF THE MIRE, ii. 246.
DREAMS, iii. 67–72.

ancient rhymes on the subject of,

iii. 70.

Drink-lean, i. 158.

Druidism, allusion to the supposed sacrifices
of, i. 185.

Druids, customs of the, at New Year's tide, i. 6.
Misseltoe sacred to the, i. 61.

Fires on the four great Festivals of
the, i. 191.

Hydromancy practised by the, at
Wells, ii. 229.

rites of the, at the changes of the
Moon, iii. 72.

magic of the, iii. 80, 180.

DRUNKARD'S CLOAK, iii. 55.
Drunken Groat, ii. 204.

Drunkenness increased amongst us by the

Wars of the Low Countries, ii. 203.