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GENERAL INDEX. 



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For -To« : — 



maorp'es, iii. 3. 



Margaret's flood, ii. 512. 



Mark's (St.) eve, watching in cliurch-porcli, iv. 

 470. 



marriage divinations, ii. 117; vi. 311; vii. 545; 

 X. 321; xii. 200. 



May cats, iii. 20. 84. 



May-day custom, v. 581. 



May dew, ii. 474. 



May marriages unlucky, i. 467 ; i'. 52. 



measles cured, xii. 259. 



Meddygon Myddvai, or surgeons of Myddvai, ii. 

 388. 



Merry Lwyd, i. 173. 315; vi. 410. 



metrical charms, i. 229. 



mice omens, ii. 164; roasted, i. 430; ii. 197. 435. 

 510; iv. 52; vi. 311. 



midsummer fires, ii. 101. 



Millery! Millery! Dousty-poll! iii. 133- 



miners' superstitions, vi. 601; xii. 201. 



mole, the iirst in Cornwall, ii. 225; origin, t 

 534. 



moths called souls, iii. 220. 



moon, the new, x. 485; vii. 177. 



murrain in cows, chann, i. 349. 



rail paring unlucky on Sundays, ii. 511; iii. 55, 

 341. 462; v. 142. 285. 309; vi. 432; x. 190. 

 naval custom, xii. 487. 

 neck, cure for a large, iii. 405. 

 nettle in, dock out, iii. 133. 201. 205. 368. 463. 

 new-born child, vii. 128. 

 New Year's rain, v. 5. 

 nievie-nick-nack, iii. 179. 

 night-mare, iv. 53. 

 night rains, vi. 601. 

 night spell, i. 229. 

 oak webs, iii. 259. 



od, experiment with a gold ring, iii. 517. 

 omens from cattle, i. 258; lucky, v. 293. 

 Orkney charms, x. 220. 

 owls' screech ominous, ii. 164. 

 oxen marked to escape murrain, vi. 144. 

 Palm Sunday wind, i. 363. 

 Paul pitcher night, iii. 239. 

 parsley-bed procreating infants, vi. 386. 517. 

 pigeons eaten before death, iii. 517; their medicinal 



use, iv. 228. 291; feathers, ii. 165 ; iii. 517. 

 piskies, ii. 475. 510. 514; iii. 220; v. 173; xi. 



398. 457. 

 poultry, ii. 16^. 

 quinces, ii'. 20. 



rain-water a cure for sore eyes, v. 223. 

 raven superstition, vii. 496. 

 rheumatism, ii. 37. 

 rickets cured, xii. 260. 

 ring-worm cured, iv. 500. 

 robin, a sacred bird, ii. 164. 

 rosemary, vi. 123. 

 rush-bearing, i. 259; ii. 197. 

 rusty articles, v. 486. 

 sacrament sixpences, viii. 617 ; wine, iii. 179. 



320. 368. 

 salt-box, buying, vi. 193. 



Folk-Lore : — 



salt-buming, ii. 259 ; sj.iliing, xi. 142; xii. 200. 



salt thrown over the slioulders, ii. 150; on the 

 chest of a corpse, ix. 536; x. 393. 



salting a new-bora infant, i. 349; v. 76. 141. 



sanitary superstition, xii. 488, 489. 



Saxon spell, v. 5. 



sayings, seven score of superstitious, vii. 1 52. 



scald charms, iv. 291. 405.' 



scarlet fever cured, vi. 601. 



school superstitions, iv. 53. 



serpents never bite infants, x. 403. 



sex discovered before birth, ii. 20. 



Seynte Petres sister, i. 281. 



sheep, disease cured by, iii. 320. 367. 



Shewri-while, iii. 20. 



shoes thrown for luck, i. 468; ii. 196; v. 413; 

 vii. 182. 288. 411; viii. 377. 



Shrove Tuesday rhymes, xi. 239. j 



sixpence, the crooked, x. 505. 



skriker, or trash, ii. 52. 



snail charms, iii. 132. 179. 



snake charming, ii. 510. 



snakes eat as a charm, ii. 130 ; never die till sun- 

 set, 164. 510. 

 sneezing, v. 364. 500. 572. 599; xii. 200. 

 snuff placed on a corpse, v. 462. 

 souling, iv. 381. 506. 



soul separating from the body, ii. 506 ; iii. 206. 

 spectral coach and horses, v. 195. 365. 

 spells. See Charms and Spells. 

 spiders, ii. 1 65. 259 ; iii. 3. 

 spitting for luck, vi. 1 93. 

 springs and wells, vi. 28. 96. 152. 304. 497. 

 storms from conjuring, iii. 404. 

 sty in the eye, ii. 37; vi. 96. 

 swearing on a skull, v. 485. 

 swans hatched during thunder, ii. 510. „ 

 swellings cured, vi. 480. 

 teeth superstitions, vii. 177; viii. 382; ix. 337. 



345; X. 116. 

 teeth wide apart a sign of luck, vi. 601. 

 thorn, ii. 37. 



thrush cures, ii. 512; viii. 146. 265. 

 toads applied to cancers, vi. 193. 280. 

 tooth-ache charms, i. 397. 429; ii. 37. 130; iii. 



20; iv. 227; x. 6. 505. 

 tooth burnt with salt, ix. 345; x. 232. 

 trash, or skriker, ii. 52. 

 trwyn pwcca, or fairy's nose, ii. 389. 

 useful superstitions, xii. 488, 489. 

 wassailing, v. 293; vi. 600. 

 wart cures, i. 482; ii. 19. 36. 68. 150. 181. 226. 



430; vi. 311.409.519; vii. 81; xi. 7.97. 

 wasps, ii. 165. 

 well-flowering, vii. 281. 

 wens cured, ii. 36; vi. 145; xii. 201. 

 white bird, featherless. xi. 225. 274. 313. 421. 

 White Paternoster, i. 229. 281. 

 " Will led," or " led will," xii. 489. 

 winter thunder, vii. 81. 

 witchcraft, ii. 404; iii. 55; vi. 145. 

 wound cures, i. 482. 

 wresting thread, iv. 500. 



