i, 418-9.

liberty of Warkworth in, ii, 31-2.
Northumberland, custom in on a New
Year's Day, i, 15.

freedom of Alnwick, in, i,

194.

May feast in, i, 222.
Midsummer fires in, i, 318.
stools dressed with flowers
in, on Midsummer Day, i,
319.

custom of, on St. Peter's
Eve, i, 337.

rural sacrifice of nuts in, i,
378.

custom in, at Martinmas, i,
400.

sword-dance of, i, 513-4.
harvest home in, ii, 29.
superstition in, relating to
children when first sent
abroad with the nurse, ii,
81.

christening customs in, ii,81.
arvel dinner in, ii, 238.
Northumberland Household Book,
extracts from, concerning the boy
bishop, i, 423.

Norway, St. Anscharius and St. Olaus
the patron saints of, i, 364.
Norwich, sports anciently used at, on
Fastyngonge Tuesday, i, 68.
Nose, itching of the, iii, 174-5.
Nosegays at weddings, ii, 118.

presented by poor women to
Queen Elizabeth, ii, 120.

NOT, GAME OF, ii, 434.
Nottingham, ancient Midsummer
watch at, i, 328.

geese eaten at, on the elec-
tion of a new mayor, i,
371.

custom at, of going to St.
Anne's well, ii, 379.

Nottinghamshire, wassailing custom
in, on Christmas Eve,
i, 31.

custom of mothering in,

i, 111.

belief of the inhabitants of,
in fairies and witches, iii,
32.

charms used in, iii, 274.
Ormistoun, co. Lothian, yew tree at,
ii, 263.

Orpyne plants, commonly called Mid-
summer men, i, 329-30.
exhibited on a gold ring
found at Cawood, in York-
shire, i, 330.

- love divinations with, i, 330.
OSTRICHES eating and digesting
IRON, iii, 365.

Oswald, St., well dedicated to, near
the foot of Roseberry Toppinge, ii,
380.

Ottery, St. Mary, statute of the
church of, relating to the feast of
the Innocents, i, 428.
Oundle, co. Northampton, supersti-
tions relating to the well at, ii,
369.

OWL, the, an omen, iii, 206-10.
Owls and squirrels, rural practice of
hunting, on Christmas Day,
i, 489.

why persecuted, iii, 208.
"Ovum Anguinum," iii, 287, 369.
"Ovum Paschale," i, 168.
Oxen or neat, omens of weather
gained from, iii, 204-44.
Oxford, custom of Terræ filius at, i, 72.
processional customs at, on
Holy Thursday, i, 199.

ed by crosses cut in the
stones of buildings, i, 200.
blowing horns and hollow canes
at, all night, on the eve of
the 1st of May, i, 213.
assembling of the choristers on
Magdalen College Tower at,
i, 213.

St. Frideswide patron saint of,
i, 364.

boar's-head carol at Queen's
College in, i, 485.
Christmas princes, or lords of
misrule at, i, 498.
groaning cheese retained at,
ii, 71.

custom in many of the colleges
at, of awakening students
in the morning, ii, 214.
curfew bell at, ii, 220.
epitaph in St. John Baptist's
College in, ii, 251.

ceremony adhered to in Queen's
College in, by the scholars
when waiting on the fellows,
ii, 331.

Oxfordshire, custom in, on Valentine's
Day, i, 60.

Shrove Tuesday,i,87-8.
the week before Easter,

i, 99.

on May Day, i, 219.

Oy, explanation of, ii, 333.
Oysters, time of their coming in, at
London, i, 346.

unseasonable in months that
have not an R in their
names, i, 346.

Pace-eggers' song, i, 176.
Paddington, co. Middlesex, custom of

throwing cakes or bread from the
church steeple of, i, 166; ii, 288.
Pædonomus at Christmas in West-
minster school, i, 440.
Paganalia, i, 494; ii, 2.
Palilia, feasts so called, i, 306.

PALL and UNDERBEARERS, ii, 284-5.

rites peculiar to Good Friday

used on, i, 114.

Passion dock, pudding of, i, 150.
Passover, Jewish mode of celebrating
the, i, 171.

cake, i, 171.

Pastoral staff, origin of the, iii, 332.
Pastures, blessings implored upon, on
St. Stephen's Day, i, 534.
Patrick, St., i, 108, 364.
PATRICK'S DAY, ST., i, 108-10.
Paula, funeral of, ii, 284.

Paulinus, bishop of Nola, large bells
used in churches invented by, ii,
213.

Paul's, St., Cross, full of reliques set on
the steeple of, to preserve from
danger of tempests, ii, 218.
Paul's Cray, Kent, garlands formerly
suspended in the church of, ii, 304.
PAUL'S DAY, ST., i, 39, 42.

Paul's School, St., extract from the
statutes of, i, 431.

Paulus Æmilius, superstition of, iii,
246.

Pauntley, custom at, on the eve of
Twelfth-day, i, 33.

356.

Peach tree, superstition from the fall-
ing of the leaves of the, iii, 248.
Peacocks' feathers, garland of, iii, 392.
PEACOCKS, Superstitions concerning,
iii, 217-8.

Peal, a funeral or dead, ii, 219.
PEARIE, ii, 434.

Peas on Carling Sunday, i, 113-4-5.
PEASCOD WOOING, ii, 99, 100.
Peel Castle, Isle of Man, crypt near,
iii, 265.

Peeping Tom of Coventry, i, 286-7.
Peg-a-lantern, iii, 395.

Pelagia, request of, to her son, con-
cerning her funeral, ii, 229.
PELICAN, iii, 366-7.

Penance for ante-nuptial fornication,
ii, 95.

Pendrell, Richard, custom of deco-
rating his tomb on the 29th May,
i, 274.

Penny weddings in Scotland, ii, 147-8.
Pepys, extract from his Diary, Valen-
tine's Day, 1667, i, 58-9.
St. David's Day, i, 105.
goes to Woolwich to gather
May-dew, i, 218.
Perambulations, parochial, in Roga-
tion Week, i, 197.
Percy, Thomas, dinner at the funeral
of, A.D. 1561, ii, 239.

Percy, James, the claimant of the
earldom of Northumberland in
1680, had a mole like a half-moon
on his body, iii, 253.
Περιδειπνον, ii, 238.
Perilla, verses to, from
Hesperides, ii, 235.
Persians, festival of the solar year
kept by, on the 20th March,
i, 170.

Herrick's

sneezing a happy omen among
the, iii, 124.
Perth, street called "Couvre-Feu
Row" in, ii, 224.
Perthshire, popular superstitions in,
iii, 294-5.

to St. Fillan in, iii, 295.
Peruvians, custom amongst the, when
bringing home the maize from the
field, ii, 21.

Peter ad Vincula, St., i, 365.
Peter, St., i, 365.

presides over the castle of St.
Angelo, i, 364.

fire of, iii, 401.

and St. Paul, ceremonies used
by the Irish on the eve of, i,
337.

PETER'S DAY, ST., i, 337.

London watch on its vigil, i,
338.

Petrel, stormy, iii, 222.
Petting-stone, custom of the, in Holy
Island, ii, 167.

Philip and James, Saints, custom in
Eton school on the festival of, i,
430.

Phillips, Ambrose, parody on the
style of, ii, 364.
Philtres, iii, 307.

PHENIX, the, iii, 366.
Phooka, the, ii, 508.

PHRASES and EXPRESSIONS, Ob-
scure, iii, 304.

PHYSICAL CHARMS, iii, 269-309.
Physicians the only persons at present
who interpret dreams, iii, 131.
PHYSIOGNOMY, Divination by, iii, 355.
Picardy, women of, called the de-

ceased by his name, while carrying
to the grave, ii, 272.
PICCADILLY, or PICARDILLY, ii, 435.
Pickelen, the Dutch name for huckle-
bones, ii, 412.

Picks, the suit of diamonds so called
at cards, ii, 449.

Pictures, votive, in the Temple of
Neptune, i, 419.

Pie-powder, court of, ii, 468.
PIGEON HOLES, GAME OF, ii, 435.
Pigeon, a white, an omen of death,
iii, 218.
Pigeons' feathers, supposed properties
of, ii, 230; iii, 232.