NOTES ON THE
FOLK-LORE
OF THE
NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND
AND THE BORDERS.
A NEW EDITION WITH MANY ADDITIONAL NOTES.
BY
WILLIAM HENDERSON,
AUTHOR OF “MY LIFE AS AN ANGLER.”
“Our mothers’ maids in our childhood . . . have so frayed us with bullbeggars, spirits, witches, urchins, elves, hags, fairies, satyrs, pans, faunes, sylvans, kit-with-the-candlestick (will-o’-the-wisp), tritons (kelpies), centaurs, dwarfs, giants, imps, calcars (assy-pods), conjurors, nymphs, changelings, incubus, Robin-Goodfellow (Brownies), the spoorey, the man in the oak, the hellwain, the firedrake (dead light), the Puckle, Tom Thumb, Hobgoblin, Tom Tumbler, Bouclus, and such other bug-bears, that we are afraid of our own shadows.”
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
W. SATCHELL, PEYTON and CO.,
1879.
