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girls’ shoes and boys’ caps, 84; tansy pudding eaten near York, ib.; observances at University College, Oxford, 85
Monday: girls “heaving” and kissing lads in Lancashire—an unfortunate School Inspector—same custom in Pyrenees—the chaplain and the convict women; “luking:” playing at knor and spell begins, 84
Tuesday: lads lift and kiss lasses (Lancashire), 84
Earthworm water used to cure worms, 154–5
Edessa, King of, see Agbarus
Eels: produced from horse-hairs, 28; their skin prevents cramp, 28—and cures cramp, 155; their blood a charm for warts, 139
Eggs, divination by new-laid, 105; an uneven setting only lucky, 112
Eiderstedt miller’s wife in cat shape, 208
Elder: knots used in incantation by Dawson the Wizard, 218–9; a charm against rheumatism (Sussex)—obnoxious to witches—juice gives the eyes power of seeing them, 219; standing under on Midsummer Eve one may see the elves and their king (Denmark), ib.; Danish remedy for toothache, 220; not made into furniture, ib.; Hyldemoer or Eldermother’s permission sought before cutting it, ib.
Elf-stones: believed to injure cows, 185; were once fairy breast-pins, ib.; probably arrow-heads which Irish peasants wear as amulets against elf-shooting, ib.—the disease an over-extension of cow’s first stomach, ib.; their use confessed by Irish witch in 1662; fall of one in Ettrick forest, ib.; an ancient Scandinavian superstition, 186; case in Iceland in 11th century, ib.; charm for cure of wounded animals, ib.; elf-shooting in County Derry, 186–7
Elfs: descendants of fallen angels, or of the unwashed children of Eve (Denmark), 248; see Elder
Elleree: one possessing second sight, 345; sees sparks on persons near death or a shroud covering the figure, ib.
Embleton, bridal party pass over a bench across church porch at, 38
Epilepsy, charms for: silver rings made of Offertory money; sacrificing black cock to devil in Highlands; drowning cocks in Algeria, 147–8; a bottle of pins made hot, 231–2
Epworth vicarage haunted in Wesley’s time, 316
Erendegen, Castle of, infested by witches in cat shape, 208
Eruptions, rubbing with gold a charm for, 167
Erysipelas, charms for: blood from cat’s ear; mystic words, 149–50
Eskdale witches hunted in hare form, 203
Etherley Dene, the abode of the Pollard Brawn, 285
Ettrick Forest, fall of elf-stone in, 185
Ettrick Shepherd on the popular belief respecting fairies, &c., 246
Eucharist, sacred elements in the, efficacious for cure of disease, 146
Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c., 248
Evergreens: sinful to burn those used for decorations, 119
Evil eye termed “blinking:” suffering child placed on anvil, 187; cured by “gold and silver” water (Scotland), 188; by a charmer in Sunderland, ib.; self-bored stones a protection, and copy of letter to King of Edessa, 194
