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Warboys, poor allowed to gather sticks on May day morning at, 86
Warrington, a School Inspector “heaved” and kissed by girls on Easter Monday at, 84
Warts, various charms for: black-snail; dropped bag of pebbles; cinder in paper; raw stolen meat; knots in hair; eel’s blood; whispering threats; crossing with new pin: sticking pins in ash tree; lard skin (Bacon’s experience quoted); burying apples and wheat stalks; counting them, 138–140; the hand of a corpse (Germany), 154
Washing clothes on Good Friday, see Good Friday, hands in same basin with another forebodes a quarrel—averted by crossing the water, 112; face before killing anything, 113
Washington (Sussex), Piskies found at work threshing by farmer at, 284
Wassailing in Yorkshire, see Christmas
Wastell (Mr. C.), on Stainmore story of Hand of Glory, 242
Watching anyone out of sight unlucky, 117
Water, running, destroys all spells, 212; dreaming of, portends sickness, 111; of Loch Monar cures diseases, 164; see South-running water
Water Kelpie (Scotch), mentioned, 272
Waul-staff and rogen of Schaumberg–Lippe, 90
Weather predictions: from direction of wind on New Year’s eve, 75; from calends of January (Buckingham), 175; from Candlemas day; from oak and ash, 76; from arrival of cuckoo; from last three days of March, 94; from cat washing her face, 206
Wedding, see Marriage
“Weeds and onfas:” ephemeral fevers so called on Scotch Borders, 20
Weld’s (C. K.) Two Months in the Highlands, quoted on Loch Monar, 165
Well-dressing in England, 2
Wells, Sacred: St. Bede’s, near Jarrow, where weakly children are dipped and crooked pins offered; at Whitford in Flintshire used for sore eyes; Locksaint Well in Skye; at Sefton in Lancashire, where fortunes are tried by throwing in pins, 231
Wishing: the Worm Well at Lambton, where crooked pins are offered; at Wooler; St. Helen’s Well in Yorkshire, where pieces of cloth are offered; and the Cheesewell in Peeblesshire, into which cheese is cast, 230
Wen, charms for: touching with dead man’s hand, 153–4; parson’s touch, 164
Werewolf (or Hamrammr) indicated by meeting eyebrows in Iceland, Denmark, and Germany, 112; disenchanted by drawing blood, 182
Westley’s Vicarage of Epworth haunted by “Old Jeffrey,” 316
Whately (Archbishop): Miscellaneous Remains quoted on heathenism of the vulgar, 2; on killing magpies in Sweden, 126; on cramp-bone of sheep, 155
Wheatstalk buried, a charm for warts, 140
Whistling, never practised in Devon and Cornwall mines, 44; women, dreaded on sea coast—one declined as a passenger at Scarborough, ib.
Whitbeck, peculiar Christmas breakfast mess used at, 67; bees said there to sing as Christmas day begins, 311
Whitburn, wedding custom of offering “hotpots” at, 40
