ON THE ETHNOaEAPHICAL SUBVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 649 



(62) Describe the cnstoms of fishermen at launching their boats. 



(63) Give any omens believed in by fishermen. 

 (66) Is it unlucky to assist a drowning person ? 



(84) What ceremonies are performed when trees are felled ? 



(85) Describe any custom of placing rags and other small objects 



upon bushes or trees. 



(86) Describe any maypole customs and dances. 



(87) Describe any customs of wassailing of fruit trees. 



(90) Are split trees used in divination or for the cure of disease ? 

 (98) Describe any ceremonies used for love divination with plants or 

 trees. 

 (105) Describe the garlands made and used at ceremonies. 

 (110) "What animals are considered lucky and what unlucky to meet, 

 come in contact with, or kill ? 



(132) Describe any cnstoms in which animals are sacrificed, or driven 



away from house or village. 



(133) Describe customs in which men dress up as animals. 



(137) Give the names of the local demons, fairies, pixies, ghosts, &c. 

 Have any of them personal proper names ? 



(139) Their habits, whether gregarious or solitary. Do they use 



special implements ? 



(140) Form and appearance, if beautiful or hideous, small in stature, 



different at different times. 

 (144) Character, if merry, mischievous, sulky, spiteful, industrious, 



stupid, easily outwitted. 

 (146) Occupations, music, dancing, helping mankind, carrying on 



mining, agricultural work. 

 (146) Haunts or habitations, if human dwellings, mounds, barrows, 



mines, forests, boggy moorlands, waters, the underworld, 



dolmans, stone circles. 



(190) Give the details of any practices connected with the worship of 



the local saint. 



(191) Are sacrifices or offerings made to the local saint, on what days, 



and when ? 



(192) What is the shrine of the local saint ? 



(210) Witchcraft. Describe minutely the ceremonies performed by 

 the witch. What preliminary ceremony took place to pro- 

 tect the witch ? 



(294) Are charms used to find evil spirits and prevent their moving 



away? 



(295) Are amulets, talismans, written bits of paper, gestures, &c., 



used to avert evil or to ensure good ? If so, how, when, 

 where ? 



(297) Are skulls of animals, or horses, or other objects hung up in 



trees to avert the evil eye and other malign influences ? 



(298) What methods are employed for divining fature events ? What 



omens are believed in ? 



(353) What superstitions are attached to women's work as such ? 



(356) Are women ever excluded from any occupation, ceremonies, or 

 places ? 



(358) What superstitions are attached to the status of widow- 

 hood ? 



(366) Are particular parts of any town or village, or particular 



