Funeral or Dead Peal, ii. 139.

FUNERAL ENTERTAINMENTS, ii. 147–152.
Pye, ii. 150.

rites, parody on, in Dunbar's Will
of Maister Andro' Kennedy, ii. 156.
Sermons, ii. 171.
Tokens, ii. 150.
Etymology of, ii. 169.

Funerals, Invitations to, ii. 156.
Psalmody used at, ii. 165.
Music at, ii. 165, 166.
Irish, ii. 166.

Howling at, ii. 167.

Roman, ii. 168.

Torches and Lights at, ii. 168.

Funeral Song formerly used in Yorkshire,

ii. 155.

Funus, etymology of, ii. 169.

Furmenty pot, ii. 14.

Furmety, i. 63.

used at Country Wakes in Cheshire,
ii. 9.

Furry day, in Cornwall, supposed Flora's
day, ii. 133.

Fye, or Fye-Token, iii. 123.
Fynnon Vair, ii. 227.

Gall, St., i. 196.
Galliards, ii. 102.
Gallicet, St., i. 203.
Gallicinium, i. 33.
"Gallorum Pugna," i. 45.
Gallus, St., i. 203.

Gallows, or Gibbet, chips or cuttings from a,
a cure for the Ague, iii. 153.

enumeration of, used by boys and
girls, from a Harleian MS., ii. 265.
Gang Days, Gang-Week, i. 121.
Gang-flower, or Rogation-flower, ibid.
Ganging Day, custom of, at Bishop's Stortford,
i. 208.

Gargunnock, co. Stirling, pernicious drinking
custom at, ii. 211.

GARLANDS AT WEDDINGS, ii. 76-78.

of willow, sent to disappointed
lovers, ii. 97.

GARLANDS IN COUNTRY CHURCHES, AND
STREWING FLOWERS ON GRAVES, ii. 184
-192.

carried at the Funerals of Virgins,
ii. 187, 188.
Garnish-Money, i. 241.

Garter, Order of the, whence derived, ii. 80.
GARTERS AT WEDDINGS, ii. 79.

Gauch, Teutonic for Fool, i. 77.

Gay describes the strewing of flowers upon
the Graves, ii. 185.

Geddes, Dr., anecdote of, i. 212.
Geese, in prime season at Michaelmas, i.
206.

eaten upon St. Martin's Day, Twelfth
Day, and Shrove Tuesday, at Paris, i.
206.

green, eaten in May, ibid.

eaten by ploughmen at Harvest Home,
i. 206.

superstitions concerning, iii. 113.
"Geho," antiquity of the term, i. 294.
Gemmel, or Gemow Rings, ii. 60, 61.
Genevieve, St., i. 196, 200.

Genii, doctrine of, as attendants upon human
beings, i. 199.

Genoa, St. John Baptist the patron of, i.
200.

Genow, St., i. 196, 204.

George, St., i. 196, 198, 200, 202.

patron of England, i. 196, 200.
George Cataphractus, St., i. 196.
GEORGE'S DAY, ST., i. 114.

Germain, St., great Bell at the Abbey of,
rung against Thunder, ii. 137.
Germans, martial dance among the, with
Swords, i. 279.

Germans, custom among the, for a bride, when
conducted to the bride-chamber, to take
off her shoe and throw it among the by-
standers, ii. 103.
Germany, Twelfth-day customs in, i. 11.
custom used in many places of,
on Ash-Wednesday, i. 56.

emblematical print sometimes pre-
sented in, instead of Eggs, i. 98.

custom in, on the night before the
1st of May, i. 128.

St. Martin, St. Boniface, and St.
George Cataphractus, patron Saints of,
i. 196.

first appearance of Gipsies in, iii. 48.
Ghent, St. Bavo and St. Liburn patron Saints
of, i. 200.

Ghost, Grose's description of a, iii. 37.
mode of addressing one, iii. 38.
pronounced Guest in the North of Eng-
land, iii. 44.

GHOSTS or APPARITIONS, iii. 37–45.

those of unburied persons described
by Virgil as wandering up and down on
the banks of the Styx, iii. 37.

conversation concerning, from Addi-
son's comedy of the Haunted House, iii.
40.

-laying of, iii. 43, Note.

Giants, practice of carrying about, on Mid-
summer Eve, i. 168, 183.

used in the City pageants, i. 183.

origin of the, in Guildhall, i. 184.
Dr. Milner's explanation of the Sta-
tues of, burnt at Dunkirk, Douay, &c.,
i. 185.

Gibbet, or Gallows, superstitions concerning
the, iii. 147.

Gifts, New Year's, i. 5, 7, 8, 11.

under the Nails of the Fingers, iii. 93.
Giles, St., Fair, near Winchester, ii. 268.
Gillingham, co. Dorset, ceremony of acknow-

ledgment to the Lord of the Manor of,
on the Monday before Holy Thursday, i.

124.

"Gillion a burnt tayle," iii. 218..
Gimmal Rings, ii. 60, 61.
GIPSIES, iii. 45-55.

GIPSIES, in Calabria, carry torches at their
weddings, ii. 99.

enumeration of works illustrative of
their history, iii. 46,47.

Spelman's account of the, iii. 48.
Girdles for women in labour, ii. 41.
Girl, divination by adorning a, on 23rd June,
as cited by the Trullan Council, i. 181.
Girls' Thistle, gathered on the Eve of St. John
Baptist, i. 167.

Gisborough, co. York, custom of the Fisher-
men at, on St. Peter's Day, i. 187.

superstition at, concerning the
seventh son of a seventh son, iii. 144.
Give-Ales, i. 105, 159.

Giuoco della Cieca, ii. 239.

Glacach, a disease so called among the High-
landers, iii. 152.

Glain Nedr, iii. 148.

Glamorganshire, custom in, of strewing a
corpse with flowers, ii. 189.

graves newly dressed in, at

Easter and Whitsuntide, ii. 190.

whitening of houses in, to keep

out the Devil, ii. 297.

Glasgow, donations made at, at funerals to
the poor, ii. 177.

Glass, eating the Apple at the, i. 214.
Glastonbury, miraculous Walnut Tree at,
i. 162.

GLASTONBURY THORN, i. 162, iii. 203.
Gleek, game of, ii. 265, 266.

"Gloria in Excelsis," hymn of, i. 262.
Glory, Hand of, iii. 153, 154.
Gloucestershire, Wassailer's song of, on New
Year's Eve, i. 2.

Day, i. 14.

fires in, in honour of Twelfth

on Midsummer Eve, i. 167.
Skimmington in, ii. 120.
Glove, dropping or sending the, ii. 79.
GLOVES AT WEDDINGS, ii. 78.

white, given to Judges at a Maiden

Assize, i. 79.

at Easter, i. 49.
Glow-Worm, ii. 33.

a token of fair weather, iii. 107.

Goats, popular superstitions concerning, ii.
297.

Gobstones, game of, ii. 104.

Gods, tutelar, of heathenism, i. 196, 200.
imitated by the Romanists, ibid.
God's Kichall, cake so called, ii. 51.
Godstowe Nunnery, in Oxfordshire, public
prayers in the Church of, in 1278, per-
formed on Innocents Day by little girls,
i. 236.

GOFF, or GOLF, ii. 248.

Gog and Magog in Guildhall, i. 184.
Goging Stole, le, iii. 53.

Gold or Silver, breaking a piece of, in token
of a contract of marriage, ii. 55, 59, 60.
GOD-FRIDAY, i. 8790.

rites peculiar to, used on

Passion Sunday, i. 107.

hallowing of Cramp-rings and
creeping to the Cross on, i. 87.

Eggs laid on, preserved, ibid.
Naogeorgus's account of the
ceremonies on, i. 87, 88.

Eggs and Bacon a usual dish

Cross-Buns on, i. 88.
watching the Sepulchre on,

GOODING, GOING A, ON ST. THOMAS'S DAY,
i. 247.

Goodman, St., i. 202.

،، Goodman's Croft," iii. 166, 167.
"Good Wine needs no Bush," ii. 215.
Goose at New Year's tide, i. 9.

popular saying concerning eating, on
Michaelmas Day, i. 206.

an emblem of " mere modestie," i. 206.
jest respecting hitting the joint of a, i.
207.

eaten on the Continent at Martinmas,
i. 220.

St. Martin's Day marked with a, on the
Norway clogs, i. 221.

a chief ingredient in the composition of
a Christmas Pie, i. 288.

at Harvest Home, i. 206, ii. 17.
plucking at a, iii. 4.

Goose-grass, i. 206.
"Goose intentos," i. 205.
Goose, Michaelmas, i. 205.
GOOSE RIDING, ii. 292.
Gospel Trees, i. 119.

Gospels, why Four, iii. 145.

Gossamer, iii. 119.

Gossip's bowl, i. 3.
Gossip's cake, ii. 51, 52.

Gosteg yr Halen, or the prelude of the Salt,
iii. 83.

Gowk, hunting the, in Scotland, on the 1st of
April, i. 77.

Grace-cup, in our Universities, origin of the,
i. 4.

Grass, strewing of a church with, on Whitsun-
day, i. 161.

Grates, Omens at the bars of, iii. 95, 96.
Grave, position in the, as adopted for inter-
ment by different nations, ii. 182.
stumbling at a, iii. 134.

anciently called Pyttes, ii. 153.
Graves, position of, ii. 182, 183.

custom of strewing flowers on, ii. 184,
185.

fenced with osiers in the South of
England, ii. 185.

illustration of the passage in Hamlet,
"make her grave straight," ii. 182.

in Brecknockshire, sometimes strewed
with slips of Bay or Yew, ii. 190.
Graydon, Charles, his lines on Nuts burning,
i. 209.

Greece, Houses decked with Evergreens in,
in December, i. 284.
Greek Church, pancake feast, preceding Lent,
used in the, i. 41.

i. 98, 102.

celebration of Easter in the,

tapers used at weddings in

the, ii. 99.
Greeks, had a method of preparing fighting-
cocks for battle, ii. 36.

modern, use parboiled wheat at fune-
rals, i. 66.

buried their dead toward the East, ii.
195, 196.

GREEN-IVIE LEAF, divination by a, iii. 191.
Greenlanders keep a Sun-feast at the Winter
Solstice, i. 260.

Greenvill, Sir Fulk, ii. 294.

Greenwich-hill, festivities of, at Easter and
Whitsuntide, i. 106, 107.

Greenwich Hospital, the four great rivers of
England represented in the Painted Hall
at, i. 123.

Gregory, St., i. 197, 202.

Gregory, St., the great patron of scholars, i. 230.
-, superstitions on the night of, iii.

70.
Gresco, ii. 266.

Gresham, Sir John, dinner at the Funeral of,
ii. 148.

Grey, Lady Catherine, the circumstances of
her death, ii. 131, 132.

GROANING CAKE and CHEESE, ii. 44-46.
Groaning Chair, ii. 45.

Groat, Drunken, ii. 204.

Groats, or Oats hulled, etymology of, i. 221.
proverb concerning in the North of
England, i. 221.

Groom-porter, Hazard played at, at Court, for
his benefit, on the night of Twelfth-day,
i. 15.

silver token passed at the benefit

Guisearts, Scots Christmas Carol by the, i.
249, 250.

Gule, etymology of, i. 191, 258.

GULE of AUGUST, commonly called LAMMAS
DAY, i. 191.

GUNPOWDER PLOT, Anniversary of the, i. 218.
Gurgunnock, co. Stirling, Witchcraft super-
stition at, iii. 24.

Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, plays at
Blindman's Buff with his Colonels, ii. 239.
Gute Freytag, i. 65.
"Guy-l'an-neuf," i. 6.
Gyar Carlins, ii, 287.
Gyl burnt tayle, iii. 218.

Hackie, ii. 248.

"Hackin," explanation of, i. 291.
HADDOCK, iii. 194.

Haggisters, iii. 113.

HAGMENA, i. 247, 248.

a corrupted word from the Greek

αγια μηνη, i. 250.

Hallowmasse, ringing of bells on, i. 218.

Hallowyng of Bells, ii. 136.

of Saturday Afternoon, ii. 24.

Halter, superstition concerning a, iii. 153.
"Halves," crying out, iii. 135.

Hamburg, custom of the inhabitants of, giv-

ing carp for supper to their servants on
Christmas Eve, i. 257.

Hammer, use of a, in calling the monks to
Church in ancient times, ii. 135.
Hampshire, Colt-pixy the name of a supposed
Fairy in, ii. 294.

Hand-ball, game of, at Easter, i. 103.

description of, from "Mons Ca-
tharina," i. 105.

Hand-fasting, or Handfæsting, ii. 54, 56, 57.
HAND and FINGER NAILS, Omens concerning,
iii. 92.

popular belief relating to the size,
softness, &c. of the Hand, iii. 93.

custom of Kissing the Hand, derived
from the ancient Persians, iii. 93.

Hand of Glory, foreign superstition of the,
iii. 153, 154.

practised in Ireland, iii. 154.

Handkerchiefs given by gentlemen to their
favourites, t. Eliz., ii. 50.

Hands, right, joining of the, in Marriage, ii. 63.
HANDSEL, iii. 141, 142.
Handsel Monday, i. 7.
66 Handske," ii. 78.
HANDY-DANDY, ii. 249.

Hans Wurst, i. e. Jack Sausage, the German

name for the attendant on a mountebank,
i. 91.

Hardicanute, King, original of Hock-Tuesday
derived from the death of, i. 112.

HARE crossing the way, iii. 105.

vulgar error concerning Hares, iii. 265.
Harn, i. 206.

Harrow School, silver arrow at, shot for, i. 247.
Harry Hurcheson, game of, ii. 246.

Harvest Dame, in Yorkshire, ii. 16.

Dinners in Cornwall, ii. 17.

Doll, or Kern-baby, in Northumber-
land, ii. 15.

Gosling, ii. 17.

HARVEST-HOME, ii. 11—20.

i. 210.

11.

17.

Geese eaten at, i. 206.
rejoicings of, on Hallow Eve,
Thomson's description of, ii.
how celebrated in France, ii.
Harvest-home Song, ii. 17, 18.

Harvest Queen, ii. 15, 16.
Harvey, the conjurer of Dublin, i. 211.
Hascka, St., ii. 286.

Hats worn whilst sitting at meat, i. 267.

congregations sitting during service with
their hats on, ii. 195, 197.
Haunted House, Gay's description of one, iii.
42.

form for exorcising one, ibid.
"Hawkie," harvest custom so called, in Cam-
bridgeshire, ii. 16.

Hawsted, co. Suff., partiality at, for burying
on the South and East sides of the Church-
yard, ii. 180.

Hay used in strewing Churches, i. 10.
Hay-thorn gathered on May Day, used against
Witches, i. 131.

Hazel, vulgar Notion concerning, iii. 175.
Hazel Nuts, Gay's spell with, i. 209.
HEAD OMENS, iii. 91, 92.
HEADS AND TAILS, ii. 250.
HEALTHS, or TOASTS, ii. 206.

Misson's account of the manner of
drinking in England, ii. 207, 208.

mode of drinking, as described in
Rich's "Irish Hubbub," ii. 201.

custom for Gallants to stab them-
selves in the Arm or elsewhere, in drink-
ing the Healths of their Mistresses, ii. 205.
Heam, explanation of, iii. 62.

Hearne, Thomas, his orders for his grave, ii.

181.
Hearnshaw, iii. 113.