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 ELEVENTH SERJES.

Ill

Folk-lore :

Nettles and bee-stings a cure for aheumatism

xii. 298, 363, 506 New Year's Eve customs, x. 505 Nightshade and pigs, iii. 427, 491 Number 13 on houses, viii. 347, 393, 434 Oak-apple Day, x. 7, 177 Octopus, the use of, in medicine, ix. 128, 173,

276, 434

Ogre-stories, vii. 228, 295 " Parkin" for the 5th of November, iv. 430 ;

v. 38

Pears and nettles, xii. 301, 347 Pied Piper, ix. 245 Pig-killing and the moon, ii. 504 Pin in necromancy, iv. 368 Propitiatory sacrifices, vii. 78 Quakers and rain, v. 467 Quicksilver as a charm, v. 468 Raising feast, building custom, viii. 32, 57,

77, 134

Rice for the complexion, iii. 189, 258 Robins fighting their parents, x. 29, 78, 139,

174

Roping the bride, ix. 365 Roses and colds and sneezing, xi. 280, 369,

461 ; xii. 147, 208 Royalty, superstitions of, xii. 98 Russalky lore, vi. 247

St. Agatha's Day and white rabbit, v. 349 St. Agnes' Eve, Keats's poem, v. 47, 112, 156,

275

St. Dunstan and Tunbridge Wells, iii. 489 St. Mark's Eve, watching the supper, iii. 305 St. Nicholas's loaf, x. 310 Saints' Day customs, x. 129, 178 St. S within and broken eggs, xii. 480 St. Wilfrid's needle, threading it, v. 32 Salt, ii. 150, 198 School folk-lore, c. 1850, xi. 277, 347, 409,

496

'"Seven, in Papua, ii. 305 Shem, Ham, and Japhet, ii. 185 Shoes and death, v. 249, 377 Shuddering and burial, ix. 150 Sleeper, methods of waking, xii. 440, 489 Snakes drinking milk, x. 446 Spider's web and fever, i. 96, 174 ; ii. 109.

194

Spoon superstitition, x. 146, 196 Stones, ii. 9, 96

Sussex drinking custom, ix. 248 Swallows and cows, x. 29, 78, 174 Swan superstition, xii. 258 Teething, horse's hairs worn during, viii. 106 Tigers, use of their whiskers in magic rites.

xii. 481

Toads and poison, vi. 87, 157, 256 Tolmens, perforated stones, iv. 463, 533 Touching for the king's evil, ix. 506 Touching wood to avoid ill-luck, ix. 370, 418 Tree lore of the Nigerians, ix. 366 Trees growing from graves, iv. 250. 297 ;

viii. 425, 494

Trials by ordeal, Fordwich, vi. 368, 436 Turtle and thunder, ix. 268, 335 ; xi. 52 Twitching, divination by, viii 187, 237, 273.

280, 417, 471 Unicorn's horn, remedy against poison, viii

16, 33

Folk-lore :

Venus's ear, the use of, in medicine, ix. 128,

173, 216, 276, 434 ; x. 72 Viper and cow, iv. 147 Walking through a bog, iii. 47 War fetishes, German," xii. 198, 399, 448 Wart charms, iv. 446 Wasps and the weather, iv. 267 Weather prognostications of China and

Japan, ix. 327, 513 Wedding-pieces, viii. 48, 276 Wells, sacred, vi. 190, 311, 413 Werwolves and flowers, vi. 388 West Indian, ii. 225, 352 Wet hay, ii. 469, 535 ; iii. 53, 114 Whelk, the use of, in medicine, ix. 128, 173,.

276, 434

Wild Huntsman, ix. 15, 76, 152, 197, 232 Wine-fungus superstition, vii. 109, 214, 298 Woodwose, ii. 388, 471 Wyinondley chestnut tree tradition, iv. 287,

419: !

Yews in churchyards, iii. 166, 291 Folk-poetry, the making of, xii. 358, 405 Folk-speech of Worcestershire, " plain," xii. 137,

187, 267, 330 Fol ies, topographical, ii. 29, 78, 113, 158, 215,

273

Folly =lane, ii. 29, 78, 113, 158, 215, 273 Folmer (A.) on Francis Lodwick, vii. 49 " Fondness for " or " of," quotations from J. R.

Lowell, iii. 226 Fontevrault, Plantagenet tombs at, ii. 184, 223,

278, 332, 356, 390, 410, 431 Fonts, their size, i. 507 ; two in Wargrave church- yard, viii. 108 ; of Rye Church, Sussex, ix. 328 Food, insurance of supplies, 1914, x. 208 Food offering to .the dead, vii. 348 ; viii. 77 " Fool, gooseberry fool," word used, 1737, ix. 387 Foord (A. S.) on Bagnio in Chancery Lane, ix. 408 " Broche," i. 389 Danvers family of Swith- land and London, viii. 48 Essex Bath, Strand Lane, vi. 348 Roman bath in the Strand, ix. 93 Foote (Mrs. S.), c. 1741, her maiden name, xii.

260, 307, 347, 370, 466 Foote (Samuel), his jest on the Archbishop of

Canterbury, ii. 125 Foot Guards, in London, 1812-13, vii. 124;

privileges of officers in, xi. 187, 337 Footman : "I am the only Running Footman,"

tavern sign, x. 229, 298, 356 Footmen, Royal, the status of, xi. 341, 477 " Footpiece," author of the word, vii. 168 Footsac, South African slang word, ii. 63, 138,

372 Forbes (1st Lord) and the lairds of Drumminnor,

iv. 527 ; v. 116, 175

Forbes (Alexander), 1564-1617, his father, iv. 489 Forbes (Archibald), his representatives, ii. 227"4 Forbes (Avary^H.) on Dryden's ' Parnassus ' Y

viii. 370 Forbes (Lady Helen E.) on Orrok of Orrok, ix.

208; Royal descents, 418 Forbes (J.), 17th-century Shakespearian critic,

xi. 49 Forbes (Urquhart), his ' Ian Roy,' v. 110 ; vi. 510 ;

vii. 54, 98 Forbes-Mackenzie hour of eleven, origin of the

term, i. 268, 353 Forbes-Skellater family, iii. 467 ; iv. 17, 36