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383
Service-tree handle to churn aways brings butter (Germany), 200
Seventh sons: have the reputation of healing by touch, 305; in France called Marcoux from St. Marcoul; the Marcou of Ormes most celebrated; in great request if doctors; thought to possess second sight in Highlands—to be changed into asses on Saturday night in Portugal, 306
Seven Whistlers, The: cry of curlews; considered a death-warning (Folkstone), 131
Sexhow, ghost haunting farmer at, 321–2
Sharpe’s (Sir C.) Bishoprick Garland quoted on sword dancers, 70; on Picktree Brag, 270; on Lambton Worm, 287
Sheep, sacrificing: in Devonshire, 149; marked with cross by butchers, 257
Shefro, The, or gregarious fairy of Ireland wears foxglove bells on head, 228
Shell-fire: a lambent flame on bodies of the sick portending death (Sussex), 45
Sherburn Hospital, see Coffin
Shivering indicates some one passing over your future grave, 113
Shoemakers cursed by Christ because one spat at him on his way to Calvary, 82
Shoes thrown after bride: its meaning, 36; crossed, a charm for cramp, 155
Shrove Tuesday called Fasten’s Eve; football and cockfighting in Scotland, 77; schoolmasters formerly provided cocks for boys to throw sticks at; barring-out the master at Bromfield, in Cumberland, 78—capitulation on stipulation of football match and cock-fight, 79; eating pancakes on, ensures the possession of money, 114
Sidesman, see Hug-ma-close
Sieve used in the rite of Dishaloof, 53; a sacred instrument with ancients, 233
Sieve and shears, divinations by, among ancients, 233; a Newcastle case in sixteenth century; how practised in Mecklenburg, 234; case at Fenbog, 235; method given in Universal Fortune Teller, 236
Silkies: female sprites clad in rustling silk, 268; Silky of Black Heddon; sat in old tree; had power over horses, &c.; thought the owner of a hidden treasure, 269; Silky of Houndwood named “Chappie;” another haunts Denton Hall, near Shields; the Banshee of Loch Nigdal also arrayed in silk, 270
Singing before breakfast portent of grief, 113
“Sitting,” a gathering of neighbours to watch a corpse by day, 54
Sixpence, crooked or with hole, lucky, 112
Skerne, sprite haunting the river, mentioned, 265
Skir, see Left-handed
Sleep induced by Hand of Glory, 241; by foot of hanged man, 243; by a thief’s finger, ib.; by hand and arm of woman in Mexico, 244
Snail: child’s charm for, 25; finding a black one unlucky on leaving home, 116
Snake, crossing path indicates rain, 113; charms for bites: adder’s-stone—porous stone in Syria, 165; see Viper and Adder
Sneezing: a blessing still invoked in Durham and Germany; an ancient pagan practice; reproved by the Fathers; common in Africa, Siam, Scandinavia, and Mexico; Buckingham verse on its portents, 137; cat turned out of doors when (Sussex), 206
Snowdrop, unlucky to take the first of year into a house, 50
