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162—by Lee Penny and Charm-stone water, 163–5—by hanging calf’s leg in chimney, 167—by needfire; their madness cured by water charmed by Lockerby and Black Penny of Hume-byers, 163–4; word-charms for, 170, 179
Cauff-riddling: A mode of determining whether a person will survive the year or not, practised in a barn at midnight—case at Malton on St. Mark’s Eve, 52
Caul, see Child’s Caul
Cauld Lad, of Hilton, 266–7; of Gilsland, 267
Causleen, the evening star, mentioned, 259
Cedar-wood formed part of the Cross, 151
Chaff or straw strewn before wife-beater’s door, 32
“Chappie,” the family apparition at Houndwood, 269
Changelings: Martin Luther on, 7; idiots deemed such in Western Islands, 189; case in Denmark where false child detected by stallion colt, ib.; two methods of getting rid of them, 190
Charms and Spells, 138–179.
Charms, child’s: to catch a butterfly—to drive off rain—to disperse a rainbow, 24—and to cross one out, 25; for crows and snails, ib.; for ladybird, 26; for nettle-stings; for thunder, ib.
Charms for ague, 150–1, 169; bleeding, 169, 170; bleeding at the nose, 153; bite of dog, 160, 179; bite of snakes, 160, 165–6, 171; bringing back truant husband, 177–8; bringing lovers, 172–6; burns and scalds, 171; butter making, 184, 200; cattle, 170, 179; cattle disease, 162, 165, 167; cattle madness, 163–4; children (weakly), 227; colic, 83; cramp, 28, 155, 201; disease, 146, 164–5; easy deliverance, 169; epilepsy, 146–7, 231; eruptions, 167; erysipelas, 149; fevers, 20, 143; goitre, 153; king’s evil, 205; lumbago, 20; lunacy, 165; money, 74; ringworm, 140; rheumatism, 33, 160–1 (Prussia), 172, 201–206; St. Vitus’s Dance, 152; sores, 156; sore eyes, 145; storms, 170; thorns, 159, 171; tic, 20; toothache, 145, 172; vermin (Florida), 83; warts, 138–140, 154; wens, 153–4, 161; whooping cough, 140–4, 264; wife (quarrelsome), 176–7; witchcraft, 166, 214; worms, 154–5; wounds, 156–9, 166, 169, 171
Charm-stones: gave curative powers to water of Loch Monar, 164; used in Lewis to cure diseases of cattle, 165
Cheese: the “shooten” or groaning—cut by father after a birth—pieces used by girls to secure dreams, 11
Cheese Well on Minchmuir: a wishing-well where pieces of cheese are offered, 230
Child, birth: augury from day (of week) when it occurs—old rhymes, 9—used also in Devonshire—the auguries differ; on Sunday secures immunity from evil spirits, and from hanging and drowning—confers power of seeing spirits (Denmark), 10; an hour after midnight gives same power; feasting on the occasion the “shooten” or groaning cheese—cake and cheese cut by doctor—offered to all visitors in Yorkshire, 11; placed in bridal bed in Sweden, 12
Stillborn: treading on its grave unlucky—produces the grave-merels or scab, 12; old verses on the subject—a remedy for this disease; thought to make grave lucky (Devon); buried in adult’s grave, 13, 14
