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Aaskarreya, the name of the Wild Hunt in Norway, 133
Abel (Duke), supposed to be the Wild Huntsman in Schleswig, 133
Abgarus, Christ’s apocryphal letter to him, used as a charm against witchcraft and evil eye, 194
Abrahall (Rev. J. H.), versification of Breton legend, 124
Adder: its bite cured in the dog by washing with milk of an Irish cow; cannot escape from ring drawn by a native of Ireland, 166
Adder’s stone: a charm for snake bites made by adders, 165
Advocates wore cauls to insure eloquence, 22
Aerial appearances have preceded wars, 308
Ague, charms for: a dead man’s nails and hair buried under a neighbour’s threshold; spiders, worn or swallowed; caterpillar in pocket; tansy-leaves in shoe; eating sage-leaves; its transfer to willow and aspen, 150–1; word-charm, 169
All Hallowe’en: unlucky to let the house-fire out on, 72; Burns’s poem mentioned, 96; sports and divinations, 97; augury of fortune from lighted brand of direction of wind from position of bull in stall, 97; divination by the washed sark, 101 and by the “blue clue,” 253
All Saints’ Eve: churchyard procession of those doomed to die within a year, at Sedbergh, 52
All Souls’ Day: two persons walking round a room at midnight in the dark will never meet, 62
Alnwick, cow’s heart burnt near, 222
Amulets, flint arrow-heads worn as, by Irish, 185
Andermas: St. Andrew’s Day in Scotland, 98
Andæslis: Icelandic term for going against the sun, 62
Apple-pips, divination by, 106
April fool or “gowk days” on Borders; custom of bootless errands extends to Germany; “hunting the gowk” a local name for cuckoo, 92; rhymes on the month, 95
Apron: turning it for luck at sight of new moon, 115
Arkingarthdale, house in, haunted by a bogle; how driven away, 247
Arrow-heads: flint, termed elf-stones in Ireland, 185
Arthur (King), supposed to be the Wild Huntsman, 133
Ascension Day: strewing rushes or “seggs” on door-steps in Yorkshire, 86
