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Palmistry, 107–9
Pancakes eaten on Shrove Tuesday ensure money all the year, 114
Parkin, a kind of gingerbread eaten in West Riding on 5th November, 97
Parkin Sunday, the Sunday within the octave of All Saints, 97
Parting-stool: a three-legged stool over which bridal party jump at Bamburgh, 39
Parson’s touch cures rheumatism, a wen, 161; and an old woman’s cow, 162–3
Passages, see Subterranean passages
Passing-bell, see Bell
Passion Sunday (the fifth in Lent), called Care, Carle, or Carling Sunday; grey pease steeped and fried in butter eaten, 80
Passon Harris, his spell to bring his maid’s lover, 176
Pea-pod, lucky with one, nine, or many peas, 110
Peg-o’-Nell: a sprite of the Ribble; demands a life every seven years, 265–6
Peg Powler, a sprite of the river Tees; lures people to drown and devour them; river froth termed her “suds” and “creams,” 265
Pennant’s Tour quoted on extinguishing fire where corpse is kept; on killing cats and dogs which have passed over a corpse, 59; on Welsh mode of carrying a corpse, 61
Peony beads worn by children to avert convulsions and assist teething (Sussex); the plant of high repute of old, 21
Percy (Sir Joceline) drives the headless coach at Beverley, 327
Perth, strange noises in a house at, 328
Petting stone, see Stone
Pettit (Rev. George), on Indian images stuck with nails, 229
Phooka: a horse-shaped and malignant Irish spirit, 272
Picktree Brag: a mischievous spirit in form of a horse, ass, or calf, 270; probably the Nick, 272
Pigeon: feathers in beds make death difficult, 60; Russian objection to their use in beds, ib.; white one an omen of death, 49
Pigs: still-born when lions breed (Sussex), 23–4; their forelegs bear marks of devil’s fingers when he entered the herd of swine, 312
Pins: the favourites of superstition; unlucky to lend or give them, 117; used to pierce hearts in incantations; and to impale waxen images, 228; crooked, offered at wishing-wells, 230–1; Indian tale of a prince thrown under a spell by a shower of pins, 230; bottle of, a charm for epilepsy; deposited under hearthstone to keep off witches (Sussex), 231–2
Piskies, see Pixies
Pixies of Devonshire: gay and graceful sprites; description of a painting of a pixy merrymaking, 276–7; driven away by gifts of new clothing; discovered at work by Sussex farmer, 249
Phynnoderee: a Manx sprite—offended by remarks on his work and by gifts of clothing, 251
Plantain, divination by spikes of ribwort, 99
Pocket, new clothes should have money in right, 119
Pockthorp, part of the city of Norwich, 327
Pollard Worm: killed by knight of that name; the head stolen; had for the ser-
