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353
Belford: bridal parties there jump over the louping or petting stone at church porch, 38
Bell: should clock strike whilst it is tolling another death will occur within a week, 61; helps the soul to its place of rest; a complaint of the delay in tolling (Buckingham), 62–3; tolled on Good Friday morning at Fishlake, 81
Bells of Bottreaux heard in the sea by Cornish fishermen, 122
Beltane, see Midsummer Eve
Berry Well, near Melsonby, haunted by a spectral white goose, 328
Bertha (Frau), of German Folk-lore—attended by troops of unbaptized children when she joins the Wild Huntsman, 131
Berwick-upon-Tweed, wise woman of, consulted on stolen web of linen, 237
Bessel or Wassail cup of Cleveland: figures of Virgin and child, with ornaments, carried at Christmas, 66
Beverley haunted by headless ghost driving headless horses, 327
Bewitched, see Witches
Bible and Key, divinations by: modern instances, 233, 235–7
Bigge (Rev. J. F.), on haunted house at Dalton Hill Head, 329
Bingham’s Antiquities quoted on early Christian superstitions, 4
Birds: hovering near and settling on a house, an omen of death, 49; season for taking their nests closes on 29th May at Fishlake, 96
Birth, see Child: birth
Bishop’s (Rev. Samuel) verses on presenting a knife to his wife, 118
Bishop’s hand, see Confirmation
Bites, see Dog, Viper, Snakes
Blackbeetle, see Cockroach
Blackberries: the Devil makes them unwholesome at Michaelmas: “puts his foot on them” (Ireland); “throws his club over them;” “spits on them” (Sussex), 96
Black cocks, see Cocks
Black Heddon, the Silky of, see Silkies
Black Jock, a Newcastle wizard: his incantation to discover a horse poisoner 221–2
Black Penny, see Hume-byers Penny
Blacksmiths drive no nails on Good Friday, 81
Black Willie, a Hartlepool wizard, 223; his incantation to discover a witch, 224
Blade bone and knife charm to bring a lover, 175
Bleeding of a corpse, on touch of murderer, 57; urged as evidence of guilt in 1668 at the High Court, Edinburgh, ib.; of the nose, stopped by wiseman crossing running water, 153—word-charms to stop, 169–170
Blencogo, rural sports at, on second Sunday in May, 79–80
Blessing the house: clergyman’s visiting after a death, 63
Blind days: last three days of March (Devonshire), 95
Blood of sacrificed animal sprinkled when treasure buried, 248
Blue, auspicious colour for maidens, 35
Blue-clue, divination by the, practised on All Hallowe’en, 253
Boar or dog buried alive under cornerstone of church to keep off witches, 274
