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

[223] Mr. Beamont's Warrington in the Thirteenth Century.

[224] Mr. W. Beamont, in Warrington in 1465.

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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]