Lancashire Folk-lore / Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine

by John Harland; Thomas Turner Wilkinson

INDEX.

• Agricultural and Farm Celebrations in the Fylde, [298]
• Alchemists, [23];
  • two Lancashire, [30]
• Alchemy, [23]
• Ale, price of, [281];
  • of Halton, [259];
  • Warrington, [259];
  • Cockerham, [281]
• Ale Founders, [281]
• All-Souls Night, [49]
• " Day, [251]
• Apostle Spoons, [262]
• Arrowsmith, Father, his execution and the dead hand, [158-163]
• Arval, cake and ale, [270-272]
• Ascension Day, or Holy Thursday, [249]
• Ash-Wednesday, [221]
• Ashton, (Sir Thomas), of Ashton, [30]
• Ashton-under-Lyne, manorial customs of, [286], [289], [292], [293];
  • the Lord's Yule Feast at, [286];
  • Riding the Black Lad at, [289]
• Assheton (Sir John de), [287]
• " (Sir Ralph de), [290-292]
• Astrologers, Lancashire, [33]
• Astrology, [33]
• Auld Wife Hakes, [216]
• Averia (cattle, goods), [300], [301]
• Aylesbury webs and linen, [302]

• Baal Worship, [3-45]
• Bacon, Customs' dues on, [301]
• Ball, or "Old Ball," [234], [235]
• Baptismal Customs, [260]
• Barguest, bar- or barn-ghaist, [91]
• Barnacle Geese, [116-121]
• Bel, Belus, or Baal, [45]
• Belisama, the River Ribble, [4]
• Bells, church, [41], [42];
  • passing and funeral, [41], [42];
  • pancake, [44];
  • curfew, [44];
  • submarine, [44];
  • verses, [42]
• Beltane or Beltein fires, [3], [45], [47], [48]
• Betrothing and bridal customs, [263]
• Bible, for direction, divination, and dreams, [20]
• Bible and key, [103]
• Bidding to funerals, [274]
• Birth and baptismal customs, [260]
• Black Lad, at Ashton, [289]
• Bleeding, charms to stop, [77]
• Boggart, or bogle, [16];
  • the name, [49];
  • the flitting, [58]
• Boggart Hole Clough, [50]
• Boggarts, ghosts, and haunted places, [49];
  • various, [58];
  • in old halls, [51];
  • in the nineteenth century, [61]
• Bones of St. Lawrence at Chorley, [157]
• Booker (John), of Manchester, astrologer, [34-38]
• Books of Fate, [145]
• Boon rents at Denton, [294]
• Boon shearing at Ashton, [292], [293]
• Bothe (Thomas del) his will, [241]
• Bowland, letting sheep, &c., [300]
• Bragot-Sunday, [225], [258]
• Bridal bouquet, [268];
  • flowers, ib.
• Bride's chair at Warton, [265]
• Brindle Church, footprint at, [134]
• Bromley (Sir Edward), judge, [189]
• Brownies or lares, [16]
• Bryn Hall, the Gerards, and the dead man's hand, [158-163]
• Bungerley stepping-stones, [90]
• Burial by candle light, [273];
  • of a widow in vows, ib.
• Burnley, the church, [89];
  • a witch near, [209];
  • wedding customs at, [265]
• Burying in woollen, [269]

• Cards, [140]
• Carlins, [258]
• Carnaval, [217]
• Carols, Christmas, [257]
• Carr Gulds, [290]
• Cartmel Church, Legend of, [137]
• Cattle Diseases, Charms for, [79]
• Celebrations, Farm and Agricultural, in the Fylde, [298]
• Changelings, [263]
• Charles I., King, [200], [240]
• Charm, a, in cypher, [63]
• Charms and spells, [62];
  • against evil beings, ib.;
  • against sickness, wounds, &c., [74];
  • crow, lady-bird, [70-71];
  • to get drink, [72-74];
  • against danger by night, [74];
  • wounds, [74];
  • toothache, [75];
  • rheumatism and cramp, [75];
  • ague, [80];
  • nettle stings, ib.;
  • jaundice, ib.;
  • to get sleep, ib.
• "Chattox, Old," a witch, [186-189]
• Child, unbaptized, cannot die, [262]
• Childbed presents, [260]
• Childbirth, tea-drinking, [261]
• " turning the bed after, [261]
• Children, gifts to, [262]
• Christianizing of pagan gods and festivals, [14]
• Christmas, [252];
  • mumming at, [253];
  • carols, [254];
  • games, [255];
  • mutes, [256]
• Christmas at Wycoller Hall, [256]
• " Carols, [254];
  • rhymes, [253]
• Christmas customs in the Fylde, [254];
  • games there, [255]
• Christmas-day, old and new, [20];
  • breakfast in the Fylde, [256]
• Christmas Eve, creatures worshipping, [253];
  • called "Flesh-day," [256]
• " Evergreens, &c., [256]
• Christmas Frumenty, [252], [256]
• Christmas hobby-horse, [254]
• Christmas or Yule Feast, at Ashton-under-Lyne, [286]
• Church Festivals, [212], et seq.
• Churches and Churchyards, north and south sides of, [275]
• Cinderella and her slipper, [5]
• Clayton Hall Boggart, [52]
• Clegg Hall Boggart, [52]
• Cleworth, Demoniacs in 1594, [92]
• Clock-house Boggart, [52]
• Cob-seeding, [298]
• Cock-penny, at Clitheroe, [220]
• Cock-throwing and Cock-fighting, [218];
  • about Blackburn, [220];
  • at Burnley, ib.
• Cockerham Manor, [281];
  • ale in, ib.
• Cokersand Abbey, [281];
  • abbot of, ib.
• Collop Monday, [217]
• Constablewick, a Saxon, [295]
• Corals with bells, [262]
• Corpse, carrying the, [272], [274]
• Courting and Wedding Customs in the Fylde, [264]
• Cousell and Clarke, conjurors, [86]
• Cramp Rings, [75]
• Creed and Little Creed, at Eccles, [114]
• Cross-buns on Good Friday, [226]
• Crow Charm, [70]
• Curfew Bell, [44]
• Customs of Manors, [276];
  • in Furness, [281];
  • Ashton, [286], [289]
• Customs' dues at Warrington, [301]
• "Cuthbert, Old mother," and her daughters, [177]

• Dalton-in-Furness, funerals at, [271];
  • manor, [299];
  • hunt and rout, ib.
• Dalton-in-Furness, hiring reapers on Sunday, [299]
• Danish Traditions, &c., [4], [5]
• Darrell's (Rev. John) Narrative, &c. [93], [96];
  • his punishment, [97]
• Dead and Dying, the, [7]
• " man's hand, [158], [163]
• " raising the, [128]
• Deasil, or Widersinnis, [151]
• Death tick or Death watch, [152]
• Dee (Dr. John), [25]
• " charged with Witchcraft, [178]
• Deities and demi-gods, [12]
• "Demdike, Old," a witch, [186];
  • "Young Demdike," ib.
• Demon and Goblin Superstitions, [88]
• Demon Pig, [89]
• Demoniacal possession in 1594, [92];
  • in 1686, [98]
• Demoniacs, [87];
  • dispossessing a, [92];
  • at Morzine, [88]
• Demonology, [86]
• Denton Rent-boons, [294]
• Derby (Edward 3rd) Earl of, charged with keeping a Conjuror, [129]
• Device, Elizabeth and Alizon, witches, [186], [189]
• Devil, the [16];
  • his names, [84-86];
  • a card-player, [81];
  • raised, [17], [81];
  • exorcised, [17], [81]
• Devil, at Burnley, [83]
• " and the Tailor of Chatburn, [82];
  • and the Dun horse, ib.;
  • and the schoolmaster at Cockerham, [83]
• Devil, sacrifices to, [82];
  • appearances of, ib.
• "Devils of Morzine," (demoniacs) [88]
• Dispossession of Devils, [93-98]
• Divination, ancient, [7];
  • Lancashire, ib.
• " [102];
  • at marriages, [103];
  • by Bible and key, ib.;
  • Lancashire form of, [104];
  • by the dying, ib.;
  • second-sight, [105];
  • spirits of the dying and dead, ib.;
  • by lots, [106]
• Doles at Weddings, [264];
  • at funerals, [270];
  • at Swinton, ib.
• Downham, King and Queen at, [248]
• Dreams, [6], [19], [140], [145-149]
• Drink-leans, [288]
• Druidical Rock basins, [106-110]
• Dugdale, the Surey demoniac, [98]
• Dukinfield (Sir Robert), and the heriot, [294]
• Dying, Death-bed, and Funeral Customs, [268]
• Dying hardly, [268]

• Easter, Eostre, [8], [226], [227]
• " Customs, [227-237];
  • Fylde, [236]
• " Day, [227]
• " Eggs, [227], [228]
• " Monday, [233], [237]
• " "Lifting or heaving," [233];
  • game of the ring, [234];
  • Sports, [231]
• Easter sports at the Manchester Free Grammar School, [231]
• Eating and Drinking Customs, [258]
• Eccles, ignorance in, [113-115]
• Eccles cakes, [258]
• Edward I., King, [27];
  • his gift for "lifting," [233]
• Edward III., King, [28];
  • his letter for alms, [133]
• Edward IV., King, [32]
• Edward VI., King, [34]
• Eggs, Pace, Pasche, or Easter, [217], [228];
  • in Blackburn, [228], [229];
  • in East Lancashire, [231];
  • bought for Easter, [229];
  • papal prayer, blessing eggs, [229]
• "Elias, the Prophet," a fanatic, [138]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [35]
• Ellen's (St.) Well, in Brindle, [172]
• Elves and Fairies, [110-113]
• Everton toffy, [258]
• Evil Eye, the, [69]
• Ewe Loaf, the, [256]
• Exorcism of demons by godly ministers, [95], [98-101]

• Fag-pie (or Fig-pie) Sunday, [226], [258]
• Fairies, [53];
  • and Elves, [106-110]
• Fairy, a, on Mellor Moor, [111]
• " Hole, at Warton, [265]
• " Queen, [16]
• " Tales, Lancashire, [112], [113]
• Familiar Spirit, Transfer of a, [210]
• Famous History of Witches, [176]
• Feeorin (fairies), [53]
• Fern Seed, [10]
• Festivals, Church and Season, [212]
• Finger Stocks of Stone, [288]
• Flemings' Wooden Shoes and Oaten Bread, [259]
• "Flesh-Day" (Christmas Eve), [256]
• Folk-Lore, Eastern, [2-6];
  • Greek and Roman, [5], [6];
  • Scandinavian, [4], [5];
  • various, [113];
  • of Eccles and neighbourhood, [113]
• Footprints at Brindle Church, [134];
  • at Smithells Hall, [135]
• Fortune-Telling, [121-126];
  • Story of, [122];
  • "Owd Rollison," [123]
• Frumenty, [262], [256], [258]
• Funeral Biddings, [274];
  • gifts, [275];
  • bay, rosemary, &c., [270], [272], [275]
• Funeral Customs, [268];
  • in East Lancashire, [273];
  • at Dalton-in-Furness, [271];
  • at Warton, [271];
  • Fylde, [272]
• Funeral Doles, [270];
  • at Swinton, ib.;
  • various, [274]
• Funeral Sermons, [274];
  • dinners and drinkings, [272]
• Furness, Manorial Customs, [281], [285]
• Fylde, The (in Lancashire), passim.
• " Easter Customs in, [236], [242], [243]
• " Farm and Agricultural Celebrations in, [298]
• " Harvest Home, [298];
  • "shutting of marling," ib.;
  • cob-seeding, ib.

• Gabriel Ratchets, [89], [167]
• "Gang-Days," or Rogation Days, [248]
• Garstang, a Saxon Constablewick, [295]
• Geese, hatched from sea-shells, [116]
• Gemmel Rings, [263]
• Gerard (Sir Thomas), [131]
• " (Sir John), [162]
• Gerards of Bryn, [158-162]
• Gifts to Infants, [262]
• Gloucester (Eleanor), Duchess of, and Witchcraft, [174]
• Gloves, Wedding, [268]
• Goblin, Gobelinus, Kobold, Khobalus, &c., [16]
• Goblin Builders, [89]
• " Superstitions, [88]
• Good Friday, [226];
  • viands, [226], [237]
• "Goose-Intentos," [250]
• Graves, Situation and Direction of, [275]
• Greek Traditions and Superstitions, [5], [6], [13];
  • Mythology, [13]
• Grendels, The, [17]
• Grislehurst Boggart, [61]
• Groaning Cheese and Cake, [260]
• Guld-Riding, [289]
• Gunpowder Plot, [251]
• Guy Fawkes, [251]

• Hackensall Hall Boggart, [59]
• Hæver or Hiver, [149]
• Hakes, Auld Wife, [216]
• Hallowe'en, [3]
• Halton Ale, [259]
• Hand-bell Ringing, [258]
• Hand-festing, [263]
• Hartlay (John), a Conjuror, [93-96]
• Harvest Home, [298]
• Havercake Lads, [258]
• Helen's (St.) Well in Brindle, [172];
  • near Sefton, [173]
• Henry IV., King, [20]
• Henry VI., King, [28], [29], [31];
  • miracles at his tomb, [132]
• Henry VII., King, his embassy to Pope Julius II., [132]
• Henry VIII., King, [87];
  • his ale, [287]
• Heriot or Principal, at Ashton-under-Lyne, [292], [293];
  • story of, [294]
• "Hobbe, the King," at Ashton, [288]
• Hobby-horse at Christmas, [254]
• Hornby, Honour and Manor of, [285]
• " Park Mistress and Margaret Brackin, [59]
• Horwich Moor, [48]
• Hothershall Hall, [5]
• House Boggarts, [56]
• Household bewitched, [184]
• Hunchback, story of the, [5]
• Huntingdon's, Earl of, letter, [130]
• Hydrocephalus in Cattle, to cure, [79]

• Ignagning, [236]
• Imps, or Changelings, [263]
• Ince Hall, [52]
• Ince Manor House, [52]
• " Oatmeal Charity at, [249]
• Indo-European origin of superstitions, [2]
• Infants, gifts to, [262]
• Invocation at bedtime, [68], [69]

• Jack and the Bean-Stalk, [5]
• Jack the Giant-Killer, [5]
• James I., King, his Dæmonologie, [185]
• Jannocks, [259]
• Johnson's (Margaret), confession, [198]
• Jolly Lads, [236]
• Jourdain (Margery), witch of Eye, [174]

• Kelly (Edward), the Seer, [25], [126]
• Killing a witch, [208]
• King and Queen at Downham, [248]
• King of the May, [254]
• " of Misrule, [288]
• King's Evil, touching for, [77]
• Kirkby Ireleth, Manor of, [281]
• Knighthood, honour of, [277];
  • compulsory in 1278, 1292, and 1305, ib.
• Knives, &c., [18];
  • Manchester, [280]

• Labouring Goblins, [56]
• Lady in the straw, [260]
• Lady-bird charm, [70], [71]
• Lancashire musical instruments, [288]
• " Witches, verses on, [179]
• Lancaster (Thomas), Earl of, a saint, [133], [134]
• Lating or Leeting Witches, [210]
• Law Terms, mediæval Latin, [300]
• Lawrence, St., his bones at Chorley, [157]
• Leadbetter (Charles), a Lancashire astrologer, [40]
• Legend of Cartmel Church, [137]
• Lent, [221]
• Local customs and usages at various seasons, [212], et seq.
• Lord's Day conjuration, [67]
• Lostock May-pole, [243]
• Lots, casting or drawing, [106]
• Lowick, Manor of, [283]
• Lubber Fiend, [59], [89]

• Magic and Magicians, [126]
• Magpies, [143-145]
• Malkin Tower, in Pendle Forest, [186], [189], [204], [211]
• Manchester knife, a, [289]
• " Church, weddings at, [265]
• Manorial franchises, &c., [285]
• Manors, customs of, [276];
  • in Furness, [281];
  • Ashton-under-Lyne, [286], [289];
  • Smithells, [280];
  • Cockerham, [281];
  • Kirkby Ireleth, ib.;
  • Pennington, [282];
  • Muchland, ib.;
  • Lowick, [283];
  • Nevill Hall, ib.;
  • Much Urswick, [284];
  • Warton, ib.;
  • Hornby, [285];
  • Ashton-under-Lyne, [286], [289]
• Maritagium, custom of, [278]
• Marsh (Geo.), the martyr, [135-137]
• Martins, "shifting of," [143]
• Mary Queen of Scots, [131]
• May-day Eve, [46], [47], [239]
• " Customs, [238-246];
  • in Spotland, [242];
  • in Manchester, [245]
• May-day Games, decay of, [241];
  • at Burnley (1579), [244]
• May-Poles, [240-243];
  • Parliamentary ordinance against, [241]
• May King and Queen, [246]
• " Songs, [239]
• Mermaid of Marton Mere, [90]
• "Messes" at dinners, &c., [271], [274]
• Michaelmas Day, [250];
  • goose, ib., [258]
• Mid-Lent Sunday, or Mothering Sunday, [222], [225]
• Mince Pies, [255], [258]
• Miracles, or Miraculous Stories, [131]
• " of a dead Duke of Lancaster (King Henry VI.), [132-134]
• Miraculous cures by a dead man's hand, [158-163]
• Miraculous footprints in Brindle Church, [134];
  • in Smithells Hall, [135]
• "Mischief Night," [239]
• Mistletoe, [252]
• Money gift at funerals, [275]
• Moon, the, [70];
  • omens from, [149];
  • names for autumn moons, [250]
• More (Sir Thomas), Story of, [300]
• "Mothering Sunday," [222], [225]
• Mountain Ash, [72]
• Muchland, Manor of, [282]
• Much-Urswick, Manor of, [284]
• Mutes at Christmas, [256]
• Mythology of Greece and Rome, [13];
  • Oriental, ib.;
  • Northern, ib.

• Naiades, Nixies, Nisses, [16]
• Nails, cutting, [68]
• Nevill Hall, Manor of, [283]
• New Year's-Day, weather omens, [151];
  • Festival, [214];
  • and Old Christmas-Day, [212]
• New-Year's turkey, [258]
• " Eve, fire on, [214]
• New-Year's Luck, [214];
  • first caller, [215];
  • gifts and wishes, [216]
• Nicholas, St., [85]
• "Nick, Old" (the devil), [84-86]
• Night-mare, [89]
• Northumbrian Superstitions, [9]
• November 1, All Souls' Day, [251]
• November 5, Gunpowder Plot, [251]
• Numbers, odd, [4];
  • "3" and "7," ib.
• Nutter (Alice), a wealthy witch, [193]

• Oat Cake, [258];
  • Jannocks, [259]
• Oatmeal charity at Ince, [249]
• "Old Nick" (the devil), [84-86]
• "Old Scrat," or Skrat, [90]
• Omens and Predications, [138], [139]
• Omens, Dreams, Withershins, Cards, Teacups, &c., [140]
• Omens—Cats, [141];
  • Dogs, Lambs, Birds, [142];
  • Swallows, Magpies, ib.
  • Deasil, or Widersinnis, [151];
  • weather for New Year's-Day, [151];
  • Death tick, or watch, [152]
• Ormskirk gingerbread, [258]

• Pace or Pasche-egging, [128];
  • in Blackburn, ib.;
  • East Lanc., [231]
• Pagan gods, festivals and temples, changed into Christian saints, feasts and churches, [14]
• Pancake Bell, [44];
  • Tuesday, [218]
• Passing Bell, [44]
• Paternoster, White, &c., at Eccles, [115]
• Peel of Fouldrey and Tree-Geese, [116]
• Peggy's Well, Legend of, [171]
• Pendle, Forest and Hill of, [202], [204]
• Pendleton and Pendlebury, May-pole and games, [240], [241]
• Pentecost, 16th Sunday after, [250]
• Pentecost (See [Whitsuntide]).
• Persons bewitched, sixteen, [192]
• Philosopher's Mercury, [23]
• " Stone, [23]
• Pigeons' Feathers in beds, [268]
• Pilkington (Dame Jane), [273]
• Pimpernel, [71]
• Pork Pasties, [260]
• Prayer and Blessing on Eggs, [229]
• Prayer in Verse against Sir Ralph Ashton, [291]
• Predications (see [Omens]).
• Presents to Women in Childbed, [260]
• " to Infants, [262]
• Prestwich, Burying in Woollen at, [269]
• Principal or heriot at Ashton, [293]
• Prophet Elias, a fanatic, [138]

• Queen of the May, [246]

• Radcliffe, Burying in Woollen, [269]
• Radcliffe Tower, [51]
• Raising the Dead, [128];
  • the Devil, [17], [81]
• Rent-boons at Denton, [294]
• Rents, Nominal, [280]
• Rheumatism, charms to cure, [75]
• Riding the Black Lad at Ashton, [289]
• Rings, betrothal or gemmel, [263];
  • Wedding, [268]
• Robins and Wrens, [142]
• Robinson, Edmund, [195], [201]
• Rochdale Church, [89]
• " Tithe, Easter Dues, &c., [297]
• Rogation Days or Gang Days, [248]
• Rolleston, Mr., [131]
• "Rollison, Owd," [123-125]
• Roman Traditions and Superstitions, [5], [6], [18];
  • Mythology, [13]

• Saint Cuthbert's Beads, [15]
• " John's Eve, [8], [46], [47]
• " Vitus's Dance, [87]
• Samlesbury Witches, [194]
• "Scrat, Old" (or Skrat), [90]
• Second-sight in Lancashire, [105]
• Services and Tenures, peculiar, [278]
• Sheep and Farms in Bowland, [300]
• Shoes, Old, for luck, [264], [268]
• Shrew Tree in Carnforth, [79]
• Shrovetide, [217];
  • Tuesday, [218];
  • Pancakes, ib., [258];
  • Sports, [219];
  • customs in the Fylde, [221]
• Sickness, charms to cure, [74]
• Simnel Cakes, [223];
  • at Bury, [224], [258]
• Sitting-up Courtship, [264]
• Skriker, [91]
• Smithells Hall, [51];
  • Marsh the Martyr, [135]
• Smithells, Manor of, custom, [280]
• Sneezing, [6], [68]
• Songs, Lancashire, about 1422, [288]
• Sparrows, [142]
• Spell, description of a, [177]
• Spirits of the dying and dead, [105]
• Spitting on money, &c., [69], [70]
• Stocks for the fingers, [283]
• Superstitions in Manchester in the 16th century, [168]
• Superstitions of Pendle Forest, [164];
  • of East Lancashire, [165]
• Superstitions, popular, [153-157];
  • Nineteenth Century, [164]
• Superstitious beliefs, and practices, [1];
  • fears and cruelties, [167]
• Superstitious fear of Witchcraft, [182]

• Talliage or Tallage, [296];
  • of Lancashire towns, &c., ib.
• Teacups, Omens from, [140]
• Teanlay, or All Souls' Night, [49]
• Tenants of Ashton-under-Lyne, [288]
• Tenures and Services, peculiar, [278]
• Thackergate Boggart, [52]
• Throwing the Stocking, [264]
• Toothache, charms to cure, [75]
• Touching for King's Evil, [77]
• Towneley, ghost and tradition, [57]
• Trash or Skriker, [91]
• Tree Barnacles, or Tree Geese, [116]
• Turning Bed after Childbirth, [261]

• Unbaptized Child, cannot die, [262]
• Urswick Much, Manor of, [284]
• Utley, hanged for witchcraft, [195]

• Vervain, to cure wounds, a rhyming charm, [76], [115];
  • against blasts, [115]
• Victor Penny, [219]
• Vitus's (St.), Dance, [87]

• Waddow Hall, [171]
• Waitts, the, [257];
  • of Manchester, [257];
  • of Warrington, [258]
• Walton-le-Dale, raising the dead, [128]
• Warcock Hill, [17]
• Warrington Ale, [259]
• Warton, Royal Manor of, [284];
  • wedding customs at, [265]
• Warts, cures for, [78];
  • caused by washing in egg-water, [121]
• Water Sprites, [89]
• Weather Omens, [141-145], [149-152]
• Wedding Customs, [263];
  • in the Fylde, [264];
  • at Warton, [265];
  • at Burnley, [265];
  • various, [268]
• Weddings at Manchester Church, [265]
• Well at Wavertree, [169]
• Well, Peggy's, [170];
  • Legend of, [171]
• Well, St. Helen's, in Brindle, [172];
  • near Sefton, [173]
• Wells and Springs, dedicated to saints, [169]
• West Houghton Wakes, [260]
• Whitsuntide, [246];
  • Fair, [246];
  • 16th Sunday after, [250]
• Whitsuntide Ales, [246]
• " Tuesday, [248]
• " week, [247]
• Whooping Cough, [10]
• Wicken or Wiggen Tree (the mountain ash), [72]
• Widersinnis, or Deasil, [151];
  • Withershins, [140], [151]
• Widow, Burial of a, [273]
• Widows, manorial customs, [281-285]
• Wilder Lads, [48]
• Will-o'-th'-Wisp, [53]
• Winwick Church, [89]
• Wise Men and Cunning Women, [121]
• Wizards, [87];
  • Swimming a, ib.
• Wooden Shoes and Oaten Bread, [259]
• Woollen, burying in, [269]
• Wounds, to cure, [74];
  • Vervain, [76]
• Wycoller Hall, Christmas at, [256]

• Yule Loaf, [256]