INDEX.
387
Tolv, the King of the Elves, mentioned, 219
Tomte, a Swedish sprite; renounces labour when presented with new clothing, 250
Tongue, lucky to carry tip of dried, in pocket, 74, 112
Toom or empty cradle not to be rocked, 18
Toothache, charms for: splinter of a gibbet; carrying a tooth bitten from skull; paw of live mole, 145; word charm, 172
Treasure, an animal sacrificed and blood sprinkled on burying, 248
Trees told of master’s death in Germany, 310
Trefoil hinders witches, 227
Trinkets not to be buried with a corpse, 57
Tristram (Rev. Canon), on incantation to discover a witch, 223
Trolls: the descendants of the unwashed children of Eve (Denmark), 248
Trout, live: a charm for whooping cough, 141; and worms, 154
Tutösel, the screech owl flying before the Wild Huntsman, 133
Tup, the Christmas, mentioned, 71
Twins: thought to have power of healing by touch, 306; strong sympathy between; survivor inherits the life and vital energy of his fellow; Faerie Queene quoted; a “left twin” (in Sussex) thought to cure thrush by blowing into sufferer’s mouth, 307
Unbaptized child, see Child unbaptized
Underground folk, two Danish legends on their origin, 248
Unchristened ground: the graves of unbaptized children, 12
University College, Oxford, Easter observances at, 85
Universal Fortune Teller quoted on charm to see future husband, 174–5; on divination by sieve and shears, 236
Vampire indicated by meeting eyebrows (Greece), 112
Vehme, The Sacred, mentioned, 30
Verbal charms, see Word-charms
Vermin kept from corn by loaves baked on Good Friday (Florida), 83
Vervain: witches love and dread it, 207; esteemed by Druids; leaves worn by sickly children (Sussex), ib.
Violets: taking a few into a house kills young poultry, 113
Viper, bite of, cured by application of its fat, 160
Vision of a coach drawn by black swine at Durham, 327; of widow Freeman of Horbury, and of another Horbury woman, 342
Voysey (Bishop): his injunction in Cornwall against night watches of a corpse, 55
Waff, see Wraith
Wag-at-the-wa’: verses respecting him; a sort of Brownie; swings on kitchen crook; has a tail, 356; is troubled with toothache; kept away by mark of cross on crook; “wagging the crook” thought to invite his return and strictly forbidden, 357
