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Hipping Day: St. Michael’s Day in Yorkshire, 96
Hobs: Hob of Hobhole in Eunswick Bay cures the whooping cough—Hob Headless, a sprite once infesting road near Hurworth, now laid under a stone—Hob of Coniscliffe mentioned—one near Danby—Hobthrush attached to family at Sturfit Hall—fled on receiving the gift of a hat and hood, 264
Hogg’s (James) tale of the Woolgatherer, quoted on bogles and brownies, 246
Hogmenay songs: verses used by children in Scotland, 76; at Richmond in Yorkshire; first sung on St. Sylvester’s night (Scotland), 77
Holdean Mill, the miller of, and the witches, 194
Holes, stones with natural, charms against witchcraft, 166
Holland’s (Mr.) sonnet on Gabriel hounds, 130
Holly: divination by water and holly; by leaves of she-holly, 99–100; detested by witches, 226
Holy-fires of Germanic race, 72
Holy Innocents Day called Childermas Day (Preston), 72
Horse, white: unlucky to meet one on leaving home, 116; image of, carried by Christmas mummers, 70; appears in Germany at Christmas, ib.; is Gleipmir the steed of Odin, 71; Head and skin dragged about on Christmas Eve in Midland Counties, 70; Shoe protects stable from witches, 193; Spirits, in shape of; their existence a wide-spread belief, 272
Horse Knot (Centaurea nigra), divination by stamens of, 99
Horsham, a monstrous serpent found near, in 1614, 300
Host, bees building wax chapel over the, 310; and lifting it from ground, 311
Houndwood, “Chappie,” the family apparition at, 269
House, blessing the: clergyman’s visit after a death, 63; building believed to be fatal to one member of the family (Lancashire), 45; should be entered right foot foremost, 116
Hudibras quoted on sieve and shears, 234
Hug-ma-close, the sidesman or sidebone of a fowl, 35; given to bride at wedding dinner in Scotland, 35
Hume-byers or blackpenny: a charm for madness in cattle, 163
Humble (Canon) on a charm for extracting thorns, 159; on Kate Neirns, 245; on the fishermen and their pastor, 313; on aërial appearances before French Revolution, 308; on haunted house at Perth, 328; on apparition of young lady to curate, 330
Hunt’s Romances and Drolls, quoted on living sacrifices in West of England, 149
Hurst, a bogle procures the return of stolen candles to a woman at, 247
Hurstpierpoint: robin singing on altar before a death, 124; charm against ague, 169; witch, 183
Hurworth, the road near, once infested by Hob Headless, 264
Husbands, charms to bring back truant, 176–178
Hutchinson’s Cumberland, quoted on barring-out master at Bromfield Free School, 78; on sports at Blencogo, 79–80; on Whitbeck Christmas breakfast dish, 67; on weather augury from position of bull on All-Hallow-e’en, 97; on superstition at Caldbeck, 277; on bees singing on Christmas Day, 311
