- St. Valentine's Day, [32]
- ——, Divination on, in Devonshire, [33]
- Salt on Breast of Corpse, [60]
- Salt-spilling, Superstitions about, [103]
- Seasons admitting or prohibiting Matrimony, [38]
- Second Sight, [173]
- Selling Eggs after dark, [108]
- "Shaping" of Wedding Dress for Divination, [46]
- Shift, Divination by, [30]
- Shivering as a portent, [131]
- Shoeing-horn and Shakespeare, [91]
- Shoe-throwing, [87]
- —— at Weddings, [46]
- Shoes, Rhymes on, [90]
- ——, Superstitions about, [87]
- Shortbread at Wedding, [45]
- Sieve and Shears, [137]
- "Sin-eaters" in Scotland, [60]
- Sitting above and below the Salt, [105]
- —— cross-legged, [80]
- Sleeping on Bones, [8]
- Small-pox, Remedies for, [161]
- Smith, Mr. G., the Assyriologist, and Dr. Delitzsch, [55]
- Snail, Divination by, [32]
- Snails, Rhymes about, [25]
- Sneezing and Sneezers, [122]
- Snow, Rhymes about, [24]
- Sortes Virgilianæ, [136]
- Sowing Hempseed, [29]
- "Spade-money" in Wales, [62]
- Spark in Candle, [130]
- Spasms, Cure for, [160]
- Spatulamancia, [139]
- Specks on the Nails, [79]
- Speedwell and Snowdrop, [53]
- Spider, Superstitions about, [126]
- Spitting on Money, [132]
- Sprains, Charms for, [161]
- Staff, Divination by, [146]
- Standing in another's Shoes, [91]
- —— on end, of Hair, [73]
- Stillborn Children, Graves of, [15]
- Stockings, Superstitions about, [85]
- Stolen Kisses and Gloves, [93]
- Stopping House Clock at Death, [117]
- Stumbling Up-stairs, [123]
- —— on Threshold, [124]
- —— at Grave, [124]
- Sty, Prevention and Cure of, [162]
- Sudden whitening of Hair, [73]
- Sunday good Day to marry, [38]
- —— Lucky for Birth, [2]
- Superstitions about Marriage, [42]
- ——, value of, [1]
- ——, in what interesting, [1]
- ——, whence sprung, [1]
- Sussex Superstition about Children born on Sunday, [2]
- Sweeping, Superstitions about, [126]
- Symbolism of shoes, [88]
- Table Superstitions, [100]
- Tea-leaves, Divination by, [109]
- Tea-stalks, Divination by, [147]
- Teeth, Superstitions respecting, [72]
- Thirteen at Table, [101], [102]
- Three Magpies sign of a Wedding, [32]
- Thrush, Charm against, [163]
- Toothache, Charms against, [163]
- Touching Corpse among Poor, [60]
- Turning Back after starting, [132]
- Turquoise in Ring, [96]
- Typhus Fever, Remedies for, [165]
- "Unchristened Ground," [14]
- "Universal Fortune-teller," [2]
- Unmarried Person between Man and Wife, [111]
- Venetian Glass, Breaking of, by poisoned Draught, [116]
- Virgin Mary at Birth of John the Baptist, [8]
- Warts, Charms against, [165], [166]
- Watching dead Body, [61]
- Water used at Baptism, [20]
- Weakly Infants, how treated in Cornwall, [12]
- Wearing Looking-glasses, [115]
- Weather, Charms to influence, [23]
- Weather-lore from Fires, [129]
- Wedding-cake, [44]
- Wedding-ring, Divination by, [45]
- —— placed in Wedding-cake, [45]
- —— hired in Ireland, [47]
- ——, Notions about, [47]
- Wens, Cures for, [167]
- Whistling Woman, [125]
- White Gloves and Death of the Unmarried, [94]
- Whitsuntide, new Clothes on, [82]
- Whooping-cough, Cures for, [167]
- Will-o'-the-Wisp, Omen of Death, [53]
- William I. at Hastings, [83]
- Wine, &c., drank at Funerals, [64]
- "Wise Woman," [121]
- "Wishing-bone" of Fowl, [109]
- Witch taking form of Cat, [14]
- Witchcraft, Divination in, [138]
- —— Precautions against, [169]
- Worthing, case of Dog howling at, [49]
- "Wrong Side of Church," [62]
- Yellow Hair and Beard, [75]
- Yew, at Christmas, [53]
- Young, Lieutenant, Announcement of Brother's Death to, [56]
- Zadkiel's Almanack, [142]
CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO., BELLE SAUVAGE WORKS, LONDON, E.C.
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