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Notes on English Folklore.

Curious Wedding Custom and the Result. — At West Hartlepool County Court to-day a schoolboy named Keith was awarded ^^ damages against Joseph Franklin, a miner. After a colliery wedding hot and cold coppers were thrown in accordance with custom, and it was alleged that a hot coin thrown by the defendant out of a window went down the boy's back and burned him severely, so that he was absent from school eight weeks.

{Edi?il>urgh Eveuitig Dispatch., 6th July, 191 7.)

Marrick, Sivaledale, N. Yorks. Church Removal. — The village is on a hill, and the Church at the bottom. The Devil is said to have moved the Church from the top of the hill to its present position.

(Mrs. Day, Minchinhampton, native of Swaledale.)

Sto7V-d-Niite Churches, near Daventry, Northants. Church Removal. — They tried to build the Church nine times (hence the name) and every time it was overthrown.

(From ]\Ir. Fennemore, farmer, crt. 90, native.)

Inkberro7v, I Vorcestershire.

Charm for Thrush. — Old Mrs. Perks, born 1801, farmer's wife, married a man with the same surname as herself. She was there- fore believed to have gained the power of charming away " thrush" (or "white mouth") in babies, and children were brought to her from far and near. She muttered something over them, but would never tell what it was. (From her own family.)

Flowers unlucky. — A farmer's wife from Inkberrow {cir. 1887), visiting my mother at Aloechurch, was given a bunch of roses from our garden. But before going back to the house she contrived to drop them quietly, one by one. This was noticed by my young brother, who knew the reason — it brings bad luck to the chickens if flowers are taken inside a house.

Alvechurch, North-East Worcestershire. Tradition of Seven Churches. — This village of about 1000 inhabitants, with Church (on pre-Norman site) dedicated to St,