Catalogue of BTand Mate7'ial.
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Go round church seven times (three times, S. Wales), peep through keyhole, visions of doomed appear
Watch in porch ; appari- tions of doomed pass out
LOCALITY.
Montgomerysh.
South Wales.
IV, Local Festival Observance.
Mayoral Banquet ; presents to new Mayor, 1801 -
Oswestry.
V. Business Transactions.
Hiring Fairs (kept by O.S.) (Half-yearly hiring) -
Llandilo (nr. Swansea). Montgom. (Llansant- ffraid).
Planting fruit-trees and quickthorns.
SCOTLAND. I. Names. locality.
Samhain (first day of winter) ^ - Highlands and Hebrides.
All Saints' Day - - ^ - Highlands and Hebrides.
Hallowmas ----- General.
Hallow E'en, the Eve of Hallowmas General.
n. Natural Phenomena.
Fairies ride -----
Fairies ride on cats ... Fairies ride, dance, and cast knots Fairy Court rides, human captives recoverable . - . - The dead return to earth
Witches hold assemblies- mas Rade " Witches are abroad
Hallow-
Highlands and Hebrides,
Borders (Nithsdale). Galloway (Dairy). North-east.
Tale of Tamlane
Galloway, Renfrew, Ayr- shire, Highlands and Hebrides.
Galloway (Nithsdale). Galloway (Kirkpatrick).
I Should it fall, on Wednesday, forebodes hard winter.
