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gains of the coming year; other Yorkshire cases, 51; apparition of a doomed rector on; cauff-riddling at Malton, 52
St. Michael’s Day, prediction of floods from age of moon on; the devil then renders the blackberries unwholesome (Devon, Ireland, and Sussex); “hipping day” in Yorkshire, 96
St. Osythes, in Essex, a dragon there in 1170, 298
St. Patrick engrafted Christianity on Paganism, 6
St. Peter’s stone: pieces of the figures from Exeter Cathedral powdered a charm for sores, 156
St. Stephen’s Day devoted to hunting and shooting, 67
St. Sylvester’s night, the children in Scotland begin singing Hogmenay songs on, 77
St. Thomas’s Day: the time for making Christmas presents in Eastern counties and West Riding; “going a Thomasing,” 66: ghosts most numerous then, 326
St. Valentine’s Day: derived its customs from the Roman Lupercalia, 2
St. Vitus’s dance: cured by wiseman of Ripon, 152
Salt, placed on the breast of a corpse, 53; spell to bring a lover, 176; spilling, ominous—ill-luck averted by throwing a pinch over left shoulder; “help to salt help to sorrow”—a second help repairs the mischief, 120; dangerous to give it away—the giver in the power of an ill-wisher, 217
Sark, divination by the washed, 101–2
Satan, see Devil
Scald, word charm for (Sussex), 171
Scantlie Mab, a companion of Habetrot, 259
Scarborough, a story of St. Mark’s watch at, 51; a threat to consult the wiseman of, announced by bellman, 238
Scarlet fever transferred to an ass by mixing patient’s hair with the fodder, 143
Schoolboy consolation: rubbing down a companion in trouble with coat sleeves, 41; notions: that a hair will split the master’s cane, 27; that an eelskin preserves from cramp; that horse-hairs turn into eels, 28; that a black cat will raise the devil, 32; pledge: spitting over little finger, 32
Scott (Nannie) a Sunderland witch, 213
Scott’s (Reginald) Discovery of Witchcraft on divination by Psalter and key, 234
Scott’s (Sir Walter) Demonology quoted on divines and witchcraft, 7; on elf-stones, 185; disenchanting rhyme, 204; on Dobies, 248–9; on Redcap, 254; Minstrelsy on Brownie of Bodsbeck, 251; on Worm of Spindlestone Heugh, 293; Lay on weapon salve, 157
Seamen wear cauls to preserve them from drowning, 22
Sedbergh: procession there on All Saints’ Eve of those about to die, 52; payments by scholars for fighting cocks, 78; a Capelthwaite haunts a farm there, 276
Sefton, a well at, used to try fortunes by throwing in pins, 231
Seggs, see Rushes
Self-bored Stones, see Stones
Selkirk: Fairies there defeated in an attempt to steal a child, 14
