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by melted lead on New Year’s Eve in Denmark, 105; by looking in a glass ball; by apple pip in fire, 106; by ring and “south-running” water; by palmistry, 107–9; by bracken-stalk, 226; by riddle or sieve and shears, 234–6; by Bible and key, 232–7; by book and key, 236; by “blue clue,” 253; see Death, divinations of
Divinations, spells and, 99–109.
Dobie: a sprite of small sense and activity, 247; Border phrase: “Ye stupid Dobie,” ib.; Sir Walter Scott on families of the name bearing spectre in arms, 248; and on the Dobie of Mortham in Rokeby, canto ii. ib.
Dobson’s Rambles on the Ribble, quoted on the devil and the tailor of Clitheroe, 279
Dogs: their howling a wide-spread death omen; attendants on the dead—can see ghosts, 48; jumping over a coffin destroyed, 59; their bites rendered innocuous by slaughter of the animal—by eating its liver (Sussex)—by applying its hair to the wound, 159–60—and by word charm, 179; buried alive in foundations of churches formerly, 274
Door: opened at the time of death, 56–7
Dove, Satan cannot take the form of, 278
Dragons, see Worms
Dream: lady’s, of accident to brother-in-law, 339; child’s, of coffin bearing his own name, 340; clergyman’s, of death of his son in America, 341; recovery of a body in Tees through a, ib.; lady’s, of her own death by drowning at Truro, 342; of reading wife’s death in Times, 344; of a Lincolnshire man, 343; remarkable one of a Highland lady respecting a funeral, 345–8
Dreaming: on bride cake, 36; on St. Agnes’ Day, 91; of loss of teeth, fire, weddings, and water, 111
Dreams, 339–48
Dressing: to button or hook apparel awry indicates misfortune, 113
Drowned bodies believed to float on ninth day, 59; firing guns to raise them to surface, ib.; seeking them with loaf and quicksilver, ib.—and with loaf and candle, 60
Drury’s (Mr. Edward) experience of Willington ghost, 317
Duche’s (Rev. Jacob) dream of the death of his son in America, 341
Ducks, Danish witches take the form of, 210
Duffus family, ancestor of, spirited away to France, 196
Dumb-cake: made in silence on St. Agnes’ Fast, 90–1
Dunnie: a Northumbrian sprite of Brownie type—his mischievous tricks—verse used by thought to be the ghost of a reiver, 263
Dunters, see Powries
Dust should not be swept out by front door, 117
Dutch Redcaps, see Redcaps
Dyterbjernat, i. e., Diedrick of Bern, supposed to be the Wild Huntsman, 133
Ear: itching, a sign of sudden news; tingling, of being talked about, 113
Easter Eggs in general use in the North as in Germany and Russia—given as offerings of goodwill, 83; hidden in Yorkshire, and sought by children, 84
Sunday: new clothes to be worn—penalty bird droppings; the sun dances: watching it rise in Devonshire—a lamb looked for therein, 83; pulling off
