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355
Buckland (Mr. F.) on the herring-spear, 131
Bull: sacrificing one in the Highlands for recovery of a person’s health, 148
Burbeck’s Bone, an ivory tablet—a charm for lunacy, 165; lent on deposit of £100, ib.
Butter, charms to bring; twig of mountain-ash, 184—and service-tree handle to churn, 200; of churchyard-fed cows cures consumption produced by witch-riding, 192; see Witches
Burn, word-charm for, 171
Butterflies: child’s charm to catch, 24; three flying together a portent of death, 48
Cabbages thought lucky when double or without heart, 110
Cake Day: New Year’s Day on Scottish borders, 77
Caldbeck in Cumberland mentioned, 277
Calends used in Buckingham weather rhyme, 75
Calf’s leg hung in chimney: a charm for cattle disease, 167
Calverley (Sir Walter): his ghost once haunted the village of that name—laid as long as holly grows on the manor—the hero of “The Yorkshire Tragedy,” 328
Candlemas Day, weather rhyme on, 76
Candles: sparks betoken coming letters—three, elevation in life or a betrothal, 111; snuffing them out an early marriage or bad luck, 113; stuck with pins: a charm to bring lovers, 172
Capelthwaite: a spirit appearing in form of quadruped, 275; spiteful and mischievous—laid by a vicar of Beetham, 276; another haunts Capelthwaite Farm near Sedbergh, ib.
Cap, see Child’s cap
Capet (Hugh), supposed to be the Wild Huntsman, 133
Cardinals: their deaths in threes noticed, 62
Cards played on the coffin at a lykewake, 55
Care, see Mountain ash
Care, Carle, or Carling Sunday, Passion Sunday, 80
Carlings: grey peas steeped and fried in butter, eaten on Passion Sunday, 80
Carols, Christmas, sung in Durham, 64–5; in Yorkshire, 65–6
Caseburg in Germany, witch milking broomstick at, 198
Cats jumping over a coffin are destroyed, 59; their blood a charm for erysipelas, 149; mix largely in Northern Mythology—draw the chariot of Goddess Freya—supply weather portents—turned out of doors when they sneeze (Sussex)—witches take their form, 206; black ones kept by sailors’ wives to ensure husbands’ safety—old rhymes: black cats bring lovers—their blood used as a remedy for croup in Pennsylvania, 207; throwing them overboard provokes a storm at sea; German miller’s wife mutilated in this shape, 208; blood drawn from Halifax witch—Flemish story of their molesting a man, 209–210
Caterpillar carried in pocket a charm for the ague, 150
Cattle: buyers deem it unlucky not to receive back a coin, 119; sacrificed when herds diseased, 148–9; their diseases cured by hanging turf in apple-tree
