YORKSHIRE NAMES. 
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Feather-poke Long-tailed-tit 
Diggery Duckling 
Dicky-dunkin ... ... Hedge Sparrow 
1. “ If a boy “ pulls ” a robin's nest he will break his leg.” 
2. “ ’Tis lucky to have a swallow’s nest on the house.” 
i. 
Mammal, Fish and Insect Names. 
Askard 1 
Eft j 
Bull-head... 
Bed-mate... 
Brock 
Buzzard ... 
Clam 
Cushey-cow-lad} 
Furze-pig 
Fummit ... 
Hairy-man 
Lop 
Molery-warp 
Ratton 
Kittling ...' 
Newt 
Tad-pole 
Bug 
Badger 
Blue-bottle fly 
Freshwater mussel 
■ Lady-bird 
Hedgehog 
Weasel 
Larva of Tiger Moth 
Flea 
Mole 
Rat 
Kitten 
“ If t'cats leiiket 
“ T’ weather 'ill break.” 
2. If a horse rolls it is a sign of rain. 
3. If the cattle graze in groups, it is a sign of a thunderstorm. 
4. It is unlucky to hear a dog howl. 
5. Turn your money for luck when you see your first lamb of 
the season. 
6. Spiders in the house denote rain. 
7. It is lucky to see a spider in the house in the morning ; but 
unlucky to see it in the evening. 
8. If you swallow a tad-pole it will never die, but go on 
growing in your inside. 
9. It is unluckly for a rabbit to cross your path. 
10. It is unlucky for a crow to fly over the house. 
I have seen many people in the West Riding of Yorkshire 
who suppose themselves suffering from animals that had got into 
them — one with an eft that had crept into his ear and caused 
him to be deaf ; one with a fummit, another with a frog, in their 
stomachs. Most of these animals were supposed to have effected 
an entry when too small to attract observation, and then to have 
grown, until they became too large to be affected by medicine. 
W. M. E. Fowler. 
* The names indicated by a prefixed asterisk are those which do not appear in 
our most complete catalogues of popular nomenclature — the Rev. C. Swainson’s 
“ Folk lore and Provincial Names of British Birds,” and Messrs. Britten and 
Holland’s “Dictionary of English Plant-names,” two works which we have 
adopted as our standard of reference, 
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