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Newborn: first placed in maiden’s arms (Yorkshire), 12; carried upstairs before going down, 18; acquires longevity by passing through a maple, 17; gets three gifts on first visiting another house, 20; must not look in glass before a year old, 21
Unbaptized: treading on its grave produces the grave-merels, 12; at the mercy of the fairies—how protected in Denmark, in Yorkshire, and in Germany—not left alone by modern Greeks—protected by father’s clothing in Scotland; fairies defeated near Selkirk, 14; never thrives, 15; brings misfortune when taken into another house (Sweden), 20; its soul without rest after death—thought to become Gabriel Hounds—to wander in woods and solitudes, in Scotland and Devonshire—connected with the Furious Host, in Germany, 131—and with the Yeth Hounds, in North Devon; where buried apart in a spot called Chrycimers, 132
Baptism: passed through cake in Oxfordshire on the day of; cake and cheese given to first person met in street; similar custom in Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall, 12; the rite has a physical effect—case of weakly one cured in Yorkshire; must sleep first night in cap worn at, 15; lucky to cry—new minister bestows his own name on first child brought for—boy must precede girl, 16; confers the right to receive gifts on first entering another house—called “puddening” at Leeds, 20; in a new font fatal to a child, 121
Cap: must sleep first night in that worn at baptism, 15; no cold taken if left off on Sunday, 19
Caul: the halihoo or holy hood—thought lucky—must be preserved—an ancient superstition—être né coiffé—worn by seamen and advocates—prices of them—a link of affection between mother and child—return of one demanded of doctor in Scotland, 22; consulted by girl as an oracle, 23
Cradle: not to be rocked when empty—rhymes from Wilkie MS. 18; prognoses its death (Holland)—makes it noisy (Sweden)—brings an early successor—Sussex couplet; not distrained for rent—ancient one of Neville family found in Durham, 19
Hair: not to be cut on Friday, 17
Hand: right unwashed that it may gather riches, 16; using left to first take up spoon unlucky, 20
Nails: must not be cut before a year old, 16—may be bitten; first parings buried under ash tree; not to be cut on Sunday or Friday, 17; rhymes on cutting, 18
Teeth: early—indicate a successor—“soon teeth soon toes,” 19; first in upper jaw forebode death, 20; peony necklaces assist cutting (Sussex), 21; cast, burnt in fire—must not be thrown away, ib.
Childermas Day: Holy Innocents’ Day (Preston), 72
Childhood, Folk-Lore of, 24
Children’s games: one connected with the rhyme of “four-and-twenty tailors;” Sally Walker—verses used at Morpeth, and in Devonshire, 26; rhymes used in a similar dance, 27
Chipchase rookery, deserted before Reed family left there, 122
Chipping Norton, a winged two-headed serpent there, in 1349, 298
