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with black ribbon, of spinster with white, 58; extinguishing fire where corpse is kept, 59; killing cats and dogs after passing over a corpse, ib.; carrying the dead with the sun, 61—case at Stanton, ib.; in Wales carried on right hand of way and by north gate, ib.
Deazil, the: circling a person thrice with the sun, brings good fortune; the reverse direction or “withershins” evil fortune (Highlands), 61
Deerhurst, near Tewkesbury: a prodigious serpent molested the inhabitants; one John Smith enticed it with milk, cut off its head, and received an estate as a recompense, 298
Deliverance, charm for easy, 169
Deloraine, farmer’s wife witch of, 197
Denbigh: a dragon haunted the precincts of the castle; killed by Sir John of the Thumbs, 299
Denham Tracts quoted on Bogie and Redcap, 254
Denny (Mr. H.) on spell with hemp-seed, 104; on Headless Coach at Norwich, 327
Denton Hall, haunted by a silky, 269, 270
Derry, elf shooting in county, 186–7
Derwentwater lights, the aurora borealis, 307
De Salle’s (Ensebe) Peregrinations en Orient on divining by Bible and Key at English consulate, 237
Devil: sacrificing black cock to, 147; French receipt for raising him, ib.; assumes the form of various quadrupeds, 277; can simulate the crow and duck, but not the lamb, cock, pigeon, or dove, ib.; piece of land (“Cloutie’s Croft”) set apart as a propitiatory gift to (Scotland), 278; molesting a minister, ib.; selling one’s soul to (Sussex), ib.; story of the tailor of Clitheroe who outwitted him, 279; his attempt to learn several trades a failure (Scotland), 279–80; praying aloud keeps him away, 280
Devil’s bird: the swallow in Ireland; the yellow-hammer in Scotland, 123
Devils knell: a hundred strokes and then thrice three, rung on Christmas Eve in Cleveland, 66
Dew, washing the face with May; climbing hills to “meet the dew,” 85; see Witches and May-dew
Dill hinders witches, 227
Diddersley Hill, fairies once danced on, 328
Dishaloof: the rite used in saining a corpse, 53
Disease cured by waters of Loch Monar, 164–5; by the elements in the Eucharist, 146
Dishclout boiled in crock, causes loss of lovers, 116
Dittisham, an incantation at, 224; by “shaping” of a wedding dress, 35
Divination by horse-knot or Centaurea nigra; by “kenips” or spikes of ribwort plantain; by water and holly, 99; by nine leaves of she-holly; by knot-weed, 100; by yarrow from a young man’s grave; by hanging sark to dry, 101; by sprigs of sage, rose water, and shift; by knotting garter about stocking, 102; by the willow wand; by “hair-snatching” in Germany; by crossed garters and looking-glass in Belgium, 103; by sowing hemp-seed on All Hallowe’en—and on St. Martin’s night in Norfolk, 104; by new-laid egg;
