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Clover, four-leaved, lucky, 110; keeps witches from byre, 201
Coach, the Headless, with headless driver and horses, haunts several localities, 326; with black swine presaged a death at Durham, 327
Cockroaches, called clocks; an Irish reason for the name, 83
Cobbing match, the verses and rites used at a, 28
Cocks: schoolmasters provided them for boys to throw at, on Shrove Tuesday, 78; fortunate for a brood to be all, 110; crowing on a threshold indicates coming visitors, 123; black, used for raising the devil in France—favourite of a Jewish banker—sings in the Scandinavian Niflheim, 147; for cure of epilepsy sacrificed to the devil in the Highlands—and drowned in sacred well in Algeria, 147–8
Cock-penny: the sum paid to schoolmasters for providing cocks, 78
Coffins: kept in readiness and used as cupboards, 58; by an old brother of Sherburn Hospital, 59; by an old Yorkshire woman, ib.; cramp rings made from their fittings, 156
Colds are caught when cat sneezes thrice in the house, 200
Coleridge’s Table Talk quoted on charm for cramp at Christ’s Hospital, 155
Colic, piece of egg laid on Good Friday, a cure for (Suffolk), 83
Colludie stones mentioned, 259
Communications with unseen world quoted on ghosts in Whitehaven mine, 322
Confirmation: bishop’s right hand preferred—a second attempt to secure it (Exeter)—left hand dooms recipient to celibacy—good for rheumatism (Yorkshire), 33
Coniscliffe, a Hob at, mentioned, 264
Consumption produced by witch-riding cured by butter of churchyard-fed cows, 192
Conyers: the worm of Sockburn destroyed by him, 284
Corfu, custom of breaking crockery on Good Friday in, 81
Corpse, see Death.
Corpus Christi, a procession of trades companies at Durham on festival of, 86
Corn: a grain found on floor on New Year’s morning indicates an abundant harvest (Sweden), 75
Corner cupboard not distrained for rent; Northumbrian saying: “they have sold him up, corner-cupboard and all,” 19
Corp cré, or criadt: image of clay stuck with pins, claws, &c. placed in running water by ill-wishers (Inverness), 229
Coskiomancy of the ancient Greeks, 233
Counting warts: a charm for their cure, 140; increases their number, say the modern Greeks, ib.
Cow cured by minister’s touch, 162–3
Cow-lug-e’en: a night when cow-eared sprites are abroad, 262
Cradle, see Child’s cradle
Cramp, charms for: eelskin round leg, 28; crossing shoes—tortoise-shell rings—brimstone in bed—one used in Christ’s Hospital—cramp-bone: kneecap of sheep—rings of coffin fittings, 155–6—hare’s forefoot (Warwick), 201
Cranshaws in Berwickshire once the abode of a brownie, 250
Crawhall (Mr. Joseph), on game of Sally Walker, 26; on rhymes used in a
