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- Cockerham, the Devil at, 241
- Cockfighting at Eccles, rules for, 128, 143
- Coifi abandons paganism, 75
- Courting on Fridays, 176
- Courtship, superstitions respecting, 222
- Cross and pile, game of, 139
- Cuck stool at Liverpool, 167
- Cucking stool at Ormskirk, 168
- Cunliffes of Wyecoller, 79
- Danish sword dance, 153
- Debtor relieved by a witch, 252
- Decorations at rushbearings, 118
- Demons, forms of, 77
- Demon pigs, 7
- Denton, derivation of, 28
- Devil's bond, 6
- Devil outwitted, 240
- Devil's stride, 243
- Derby, Earls of, crest, 22
- Didsbury wakes, 125
- Dilworth, written stone at, 13
- Downham, King and Queen at, 88
- Downes, Roger, superstitions respecting remains of, 66, 69
- Dragon of Wantley, 265
- Drawing dun out of mire, 140
- Drowning female criminals, 172
- Ducking pits at Burnley, 165
- Dule upo' Dun, 15
- Dun cow and old rib, 16
- Drunk as blazes, 208
- Eagle Crag in Cliviger, 5
- Eagle and child, legend of, 19, 259
- Earl of Mexborough, cockfighter, 144
- Eccles guising, 89
- Eccles pageant, 92
- Eccles tithes wagered on cocks, 145
- Edward Longshanks "lifted," 143
- Edwin of Northumbria, 75
- Egerton lady and the skull, 70
- Entwisel, Sir Bertine, ballad, 23
- Eustace Dauntesey sells his soul, 42
- Expenses of guising, 91
- Fair women of Lancashire, 206
- Fairs at Manchester proclaimed, 84
- Fairs, origin of, 125
- Fairfax, General, 26
- Farm house, description of, 17
- Fighting "up and down," 145
- Fish, superstitions respecting, 224
- Fives, game of, 150
- Fleetwood Habergham, ballad by, 30
- Flodden Field, battle of, 35
- Fox, Mr, and Earl of Derby, 51
- Furness, rhymes and proverbs in, 202
- Fylde, ducking stools in the, 170
- Gallows at Manchester, 171
- "Gaping Saturday," 161
- Ghosts, vanishing of, 56
- Goblin builders, 53
- Godly lane, cross in, 7
- Gorton, derivation of, 27
- Great main of cocks, 144
- Grinning through collars, 126
- Grith, meaning of, 85
- Habergham Hall, 29
- Habergham's, Mrs, lament, 31
- Habergham, John, reckless life of, 30
- Hair, superstitions respecting, 224
- Hale, Chylde of, 31
- Halper pots, 137
- Hand-ball, game of, 149
- Hanging ditch, origin of, 34
- Hanging male criminals, 172
- Harrop, Joseph, printer of race lists, 156
- Heaving or "lifting," 142
- Hector, speech of, 107
- Helston, Mother, the witch, 6
- Hidden treasure, 38
- Higson, John, on plague stone, 54
- Hoghton pageant in 161 7, 93
