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

• 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]