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Charms, poetical, iii, 256-7-8, 271, | Children, thought unlucky in the

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pieces of, tossed in the mid-
wife's smock, ii, 71.
Cheesecakes, a principal dainty at
the feast of sheep-shearing, ii, 37.
Chelsea royal bun-houses, i, 156.
Cherry fairs, ii, 457.

CHERRY-PIT, ii, 409.

Cheshire, ceremony of lifting retained
in, i, 182.

country wakes in, ii, 11.

North of England to go
over their graves, ii, 73.
watched in Scotland till the
christening is over, ii, 73.
superstition at their not crying
when baptized, ii, 78.

in Northumberland, when first
sent abroad with the nurse,
presented with an egg, salt,
and fine bread, ii, 81.
earth and whiskey the first
food of, in the Highlands,
ii, 80.

superstitions relating to, in
Ireland, ii, 78.
superstition relating to bread
and butter of, ii, 81.

names of different warriors
used to terrify perverse, ii,
516.

custom of lustrating by spittle,

iii, 259.

custom of perambulation in, CHILD'S CAUL, iii, 114-19.

in Rogation week,
i, 206.

riding full speed at wed-
dings in, ii, 153.

Chester, Shrove-Tuesday customs at,
i, 92.

rood eye at, i, 93.

Midsummer plays at, i, 329.
Chevalet, un, the French name for the
hobby-horse, i, 270.
Chichely, Sir Robert, extract from
the will of, relating to his month's
mind, ii, 314.

advertisements in news-

papers for, iii, 116-17.

Chilham, co. Kent, May custom at,
i, 220.
Chimney-sweepers, May-day custom
of the, in London, i, 231.
China, famous for its bells, ii, 214.
Chincough, how cured, iii, 272.
Chinese, ploughings of the, i, 510.
CHIROMANCY, iii, 348-50.
"Chorea gladiatoria, de, vel armifera
saltatione," i, 511.
"Chorus armatus," i, 514.
Chrisome, meaning of, ii, 83.
pie, ii, 83.

Chicory, juice of, iii, 298.
CHILD-BEARING, CHURCHING, and
CHRISTENING CUSTOMS, ii, 66,86."
Childbirth, French customs at, ii, 68.
CHILDERMAS, or HOLY INNOCENTS
DAY, i, 535-7.
Child-Bishop's sermon on,
at St. Paul's, i, 431.
unlucky to marry on, ii, 167.
Children dying unbaptized in Scot.
land, supposed to wander in
woods and solitudes ii, 73.

Christ, ane song on the birth of,"
i, 487.
Christchurch, co. Hants, extract
from the register of, ii,
299.

curious recipes in the parish
register of, iii, 306.

Christ College, Cambridge, singularity
in the foundation of, iii, 264.
CHRISTENING CUSTOMS, ii, 77.

Christening entertainments, ii, 80.

shirts, ii, 85.

Christenings, presents at, ii, 78, 86.
sermons formerly preached at,
ii, 85.

Christian IV. of Denmark practises
riding at the ring, ii, 437.
Christians, early, custom of, upon the
Circumcision, i, 15.

of Mesopotamia, customs of,
on Easter Day, i, 171.
ancient, divination among the,
by opening the Old and New
Testament, iii, 337.

CHRISTMAS, Customs a little before,
at, or about, i, 454.

the word YULE, formerly used
to signify, i, 474.
continuance of the days of,
i, 21.

brand, i, 50.

marked by a wheel in the
Runic Fasti, i, 298.

block, i, 467.
candles, i, 467.
kariles, i, 469.

called the Feast of Lights in
the Western or Latin church,
i, 471.

named by Gregory Nazianzen
and St. Basil the Theophany,
i, 473.

box, i, 493-7.

gambols, enumeration of, i,
505.

ivy, i, 520.

CAROL, i, 480-91.

an Anglo-Norman, i, 481.
of the time of Henry VI,
i, 483.

ancient, sung in bringing
up the boar's head, i, 484.
ancient Scottish, i, 487.
from Withers's Juvenilia,

i, 488.

Christmas Carol, custom of singing,

on Christmas Day, in the
Scilly Islands, i, 490.
Day, early MS. poem illustra-
ting the popular belief
regarding, i, 478.

account of, from Barnabe
Googe's translation of
Naogeorgus, i, 518.

the observation of, forbidden
in the time of the Com-
monwealth, i, 518.
custom of hunting owls and
squirrels on, in Suffolk,
i, 489.

DECKINGCHURCHES,HOUSES,
&c., AT, WITH EVERGREENS,
i, 519.

EVE, i, 467-74.

wassailing custom on, in
Nottinghamshire, i, 31.
Yule clog on, i, 467.
superstition on, in Devon-
shire, relating to the oxen,
i, 473.

carp eaten for supper on,

at Hamburgh, i, 473.
ceremonies on, noticed by
John Herolt, a Domini-
can friar, i, 473.

women strike a swinish

hour on, i, 532.

LORD OF MISRULE, i, 497.
PIES, i, 526-32.

coffin of the, in imitation
of the cratch or manger
in which our Saviour was
laid, i, 178.

Misson's account of the,
i, 528.

verses on, from Herrick,
i, 529.
prince,orLordof Misrule, i,498.
at St. John's College, Ox-
ford, i, 498.

sung to the king at White-Christopher, St., i, 359, 364-5.

hall, i, 489.

from Poor Robin's Alma-

nack, i, 490.

in Touraine, a cock offered to,
to cure the white flawe in
men's fingers, i, 356.

Christ's Hospital, Queen Elizabeth's | Churchyards, yew trees in, ii, 255-66.

accession still observed as a holi-

day at, i, 408.

Chrysolite, iii, 300.

Chrysostom, St., observation of, on
some African conjurors, iii, 81.
CHUMMING-UP, Custom of, ii, 457.
Church-ale, derived from the Aуañаí,
or love-feasts, mentioned

superstition respecting burial

on the north side of, ii,
292-7.

flat stones in, ii, 301.
CHURN-SUPPER, ii, 27.

Churning butter, charm for, iii,
312-3.

Circles of conjurors, iii, 58.

in the New Testament, Circos, a sort of tame hawk, accounted
i, 282.
a lucky omen at weddings with the
Romans, ii, 165.

Stubbs's description of the,

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in his Anatomie of
Abuses,' i, 280.

Circumcision, custom of the early
Christians to go masked on the, i, 462.

door, endowment of the bride Cities, patron saints of, i, 364-5.

at the, ii, 133.

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monuments indicate change of
weather, iii, 243.
CHURCH-PORCH, FUNERALS IN THE,
ii, 245.

watching in the, i, 192,
331.
Churches anciently strewed with
rushes, ii, 13.

strewing of, with herbs and
flowers, on days of humilia-
tion and thanksgiving, ii,
13, 14.
monuments in, indicate change
of weather, iii, 243.
variation of the position of, as
regards east and west, ac-
counted for, ii, 6.
decoration of, on the calends
of May, i, 216.
at Christmas, i, 520-1.
Churching of women, ii, 75, 76.
Herrick's verses relating to,
ii, 76.

usual offering at, at Dunton,
in Essex, ii, 84.

feast, ii, 80.
sermon, ii, 85.
CHURCHYARDS, ii, 290-9.

III.

ghosts keeping the gates of, ii,
299.

Ciudadella, chapel of St. Nicholas at
i, 419.

Clack dish, beggar's, iii, 94.
Clap-dish, iii, 94.
Clape, Osgod, i, 189.
Clara, St., i, 364-5.

Claret, burnt, used at funerals, ii, 242.
Clavergrasse, weather omen drawn
from, iii, 247.

Claybrook, co. Leic., Macaulay's ac-

count of the celebration of
the church wake at, ii, 112.
riding for the bride-cake at,
ii, 155.

custom at, of sending a gar-

land of willow to a disap-
pointed lover, i, 124.
funeral customs at, ii, 250.
Cleansing week, i, 172.
Clement, St., i, 364-5.
CLEMENT'S DAY, ST., i, 408.

annual ceremony observed by
the blacksmiths' apprentices
of the dockyard at Wool-
wich, i, 408.

Clent, custom of "crabbing the par-
son" at, on St. Kenelm's Day, i, 342.
Clergy, benefit of, iii, 382.
"Clerk's ale," i, 180, 279.
Clerks, St. Nicholas's, i, 418.

Commons, case of the, i, 436.
Cliff, co. Kent, custom at, on St.
James's Day, i, 346.
Cligne-musset, ii, 397.

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Climacteric year, iii, 267.

Cloak, turning the, a charm against |
fairies, ii, 503.

Clock, the old name for bell, ii, 213.
Clocks, introduction of, ii, 213.
Clog, meaning of, i, 468.
Cloud, St., i, 360.

Cloven-foot, the devil's, ii, 517.
Cloveshoo, litanies or rogations or-
dered by the canons of, i, 203.
Clovis, divination practised by, from
the book of Psalms, at the shrine
of St. Martin, iii, 337.
Club-ball, ii, 407.

Coal, superstitious finding of, under
the roots of mugwort and plantain,
i, 334.

"Coal-fire, dance round our," i, 310.
Coal-mine, vulgar error relating to the
opening of a, near London, iii, 379.
Cob, or cobbing, ii, 411.
Cob-loaf-stealing, i, 465.

Cock-throwing, custom of, i, 72.

origin of, wrongly ascribed to
Henry V, i, 74.

song on, from Lluellin's
poems, i, 78.

Cock vane, whence derived, ii, 56.
Cock and Pie, sign of, ii, 355.
Cock-lane ghost, iii, 86.
COCKLE-BREAD, GAME of, ii, 413.
Cockles, omens of weather, iii, 241.
Cockney, origin of the term, i, 75.
King of, i, 536.

Cocks, shying at, i, 81-2.

augury by, iii, 219-20.
and pence, offering of, at the
feast of St. Nicholas, i, 431.

Cocks-comb, i, 263.

Coel-coeth, or Coelcerth, custom of,
i, 389.
Coffee-grounds, divination by, iii, 330.
Coffin of the present age described
by Durand, ii, 232.

Cock, why dedicated to Apollo, ii, 54. Coffins of Christmas pies, i, 178, 528.

threshing of the, i, 80.

offered to St. Christopher in
Touraine, for the sore called
a white flaw, i, 356.

COCKALL, ii, 412-3.
Cockatrice, iii, 220.
COCK-CROWING, time of the morn-
ing so called, ii, 51-7.
different times of, ii, 54-5.
COCK-FIGHTING, ii, 57, 63.

supposed to have been intro-
duced into Britain by the
Romans, ii, 60.
derived from the Athenians,
i, 69.

retained in many schools in
Scotland till within the last
century, i, 69.
forbidden by the Council of
Copria, i, 70.

a Shrove-Tuesday sport, i, 73.
curious notice of, in the
Plumpton correspondence,
i, 79.
Cockpit, Whitehall, whence named,
ii, 61.

Coffins called kists, i. e. chests, in

old registers, ii, 232.

coals flying from the fire in
the shape of, iii, 113.

Coiche-bais, iii, 61.

Coif, judge's, antiquity and origin of
the, iii, 117.

"Coiffée être né," iii, 114.
Coke, to cry, ii, 58.

| Cole, meaning of, in Welsh, i, 124.
Colepexie's fingers, ii, 513.
Coleshill, co. Warwick, Easter cus-
tom at, i, 177.
Colin-maillard, ii, 397.
"Collier's Wedding," ballad of the,
ii, 160-71.

Colliers in the north of England.
cock-fighting a favorite sport with
the, ii, 63.
Collins, story of a mermaid, in notes
to his Ode to Liberty, iii, 412.
Collistrigium, iii, 109.
Collonsey, isle of, custom in, of fan-

ning the face of a sick person with
the leaves of a Bible, iii, 272.
COLLOP, or SHROVE MONDAY, i, 62.

Cologne, the Three Kings of the East | Cooks, sermon to the, at Oxford, on

the patrons of, i, 364.
their names used as a charm,

iii, 321.

Colt-pixy, ii, 512.

Colts-foot, down flying from, por-
tends rain, iii, 245.
Columbine, the, ascribed to those
who are forsaken, i, 122.
emblematical of forsaken
lovers and of cuckoldom,
ii, 199.

Coming again, or walking of spirits,
iii, 67.

Commendation nine-pence, ii, 90.
Common fires, i, 301.

Common-sewers, omen of weather,
iii, 245.

Communion-table, bowing to the,
ii, 317.

"Compitalia," feasts so called of the

ancients, i, 320, 511.
"Complaynt of Scotland," account
of the Borrowing Days from the,
ii, 42.
"Conclamatio," the funeral lament
among the Romans, ii, 269.
Confarreation, ii, 101.
Congresbury, co. Somerset,
summer custom at, i, 336.
Conil's well, St., in Scotland, ii,
366.

Conjurors, iii, 56.

Mid-

Connan, St., well of, at Inishail, in
Argyleshire, ii, 372.

Connaught, custom of fasting in, on
Good Friday, i, 151-2.
"Connubii Flores, or the well-
wishers at weddings," ii, 161.
Constantinople, sixth council of, for-
bids the lighting up of bonfires at
new moons, i, 310.
Constantinopolitan synod, custom of
personating bishops anathematised
in, i, 421.

Conticinium, ii, 55.

Contracting cup, ii, 90.

Convulsions, to hold your left thumb
with your right hand in, ii, 343.

fetching in the fly, i, 84.
fellowship of, at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, keep up bon-
fires on St. John Baptist's
and St. Peter's Eves, i, 318.
Coral, child's, superstitions relating to,
ii, 85.

Coriander seed, effect of, as a charm,
iii, 297.

Cork, riot at, in 1833, on account of
St. John's fires, i, 305.
Cormorants, superstitions concerning,
iii, 218.

Corn, spell by pulling stalks of, in
Scotland, i, 380.

blessings on, implored upon
St. Mark's Day, i, 194.
a payment of, at Martinmas,
occurs in Domesday, i,
410.

Corning, custom of, in Warwickshire,
on St. Thomas's Day, i, 392.
Corn lady, or maiden, ii, 25.
Cornlaiters, ii, 145.

Corns, superstitions relating to,
iii, 242.

Cornucopiæ, ii, 185.

CORNUTES, ii, 181.

Cornutus, etymology of, ii, 184.
Cornwall, ceremony

observed at
Little Colan, in, on Palm
Sunday, i, 130.

May customs retained in, i,
223-7.

Whitsuntide customs in, i,276.
lighting bonfires in, on Mid-

summer Eve, i, 302.
poles at the tin-mines of,

crowned with flowers on
St. John's Day, i, 318.
custom of lighting fires in,
on Midsummer Eve, i, 319.
saints' feasts in, ii, 5.
harvest dinners in, ii, 26.
Madern well, in, ii, 369.
St. Euny's well in, ii, 370.
punishment of the cucking-
stool in, iii, 106.

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