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Fortune Teller (The Universal) quoted on divinations, 102; on palmistry, 107–9
Fortune-telling in Yorkshire with a glass egg, 105–6
Foul in cattle, a charm for: hanging turf in apple-tree, 162
Foundations, ancient custom of burying animals alive in church, 274; of border castles bathed with human blood, 256
Fox, person bitten by, will die within seven years (Lincolnshire), 120; its tongue a charm for extracting obstinate thorns, 159
Foxglove: loved by witches, and called witches’ thimbles, 227; connected with the good people in popular fancy, ib.; called lusmore and fairy cap in Ireland, 228; the Shefro’s head-dress, ib.; probably the folks’-glove, ib.
French Revolution, fighting-men appeared in the sky at Durham before the; and people heard cries and groans, 308
Freya: her attendants, hares; her horses, cats, 206
Fugees, runaway birds, perquisites of the schoolmaster at the cock-fights on Shrove Tuesday, 80
Funeral, meeting one a death omen unless averted, 42; seen by farmer’s wife at St. Boswell’s, 44; Israelites enjoined in Talmud to follow every, 43; three in succession expected, 61; see Death
Furious Host (The), see Gabriel Hounds
Gabble retchet, see Gabriel Hounds
Gabriel Hounds: Wordsworth quoted—“whist hounds” in Devonshire—thought to be monstrous human-headed dogs—forebode death and calamity, 129; sonnet embodying Sheffield feelings on the subject—really bean-geese, 130; termed “gabble retchet” near Leeds, and thought the souls of unbaptized children, 131; “Yeth hounds” in North Devon—Yule Host in Iceland—connected with the Wild Huntsman, 132
Gallitrap: a patch of land set apart in several Devonshire parishes, 278
Games, see Children’s games
Game-birds’ feathers, persons cannot die on, 60
Garters, divinations by knotted, and stocking, 102; and in Belgium by crossed, and looking-glass, 103
Gay’s Shepherd’s Walk quoted on giving a knife, 118
Ghost, of “Old Nannie” haunting the farmer of Sexhow, 321–2; haunting Whitehaven mine, 322; tormenting a guilty miner, 323; of old lady of Littledean, in Tweedside, ib.; of two ladies at Bow-brig-syke, near Maxton, 324; at a country house in Fifeshire, 325; of a murdered woman near Neville’s Cross at Durham, 326; of a headless woman at Dalton, near Thirsk, and at the Lady Well at Melsonby, 327–8; of a white goose at the Berry Well there, ib.; of a lady tainting meat in Devonshire, 335; of a Dartmoor vicar laid in a beer-cask and bricked up in parsonage, 336–7; of a Sussex lady laid by two clergymen, 337; at Homersfield outwitted by priest, 338
Ghosts: Romish priests thought the proper persons to lay them, 326; most numerous on St. Thomas’s Eve and Day; vanish at Christmas, ib.
Giant story of Polyphemus type at Dalton, 195
Gibbet, splinter from, used as a charm for toothache, 145
