| No. 61. | Saturday, December 28. 1850. | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
Notes:— Page
Illustrations of Scottish Ballads, by Richard John King [505]
The Red Hand—The Holt Family—Vincent Family [506]
Vondel's Lucifer, by Janus Dousa [507]
A Myth of Midridge [509]
Folk Lore Miscellanies:—St. Thomas's Day—Black
Doll at Old Store-shops—Snake Charming—Mice
as a Medicine—"Many Nits, many Pits"—Swans
hatched during Thunder—Snakes—Pixies or Piskies
—Straw Necklaces—Breaking Judas' Bones [509]
Local Rhymes and Proverbs of Devonshire [511]
A Christmas Carol [513]
A Note for little Boys [513]
Similarity of Traditions [513]
Pixey Legends [514]
The Pool of the Black Hound [515]
Popular Rhymes [515]
Minor Notes:—"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde"—
Inscription on an Alms-dish—The Use of the French
Word "savez"—Job's Luck—The Assassination of
Mountfort in For folk Street, Strand—The Oldenburgh
Horn—Curious Custom—Kite—Epitaph on
John Randal—Playing Cards [515]
Queries:—
Dragons: their Origin [517]
John Sanderson, or the Cushion Dance; and Bab at the
Bowster [517]
Did Bunyan know Hobbes? by J.H. Friswell [518]
Minor Queries:—Boiling to Death—Meaning of
"Mocker"—"Away, let nought to love displeasing"
—Baron Münchausen—"Sing Tantararara Rogues
all," &c.—Meaning of "Cauking" [519]
Replies:—
The Wise Men of Gotham, by J.B. Colman [520]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Master John Shorne—
Antiquity of Smoking—Meaning of the Word
"Thwaites"—Thomas Rogers of Horninger—Earl
of Roscommon—Parse—The Meaning of "Version"
—First Paper-mill in England—"Torn by Horses"
—Vineyards—Cardinal—Weights for Weighing
Coins—Umbrella—Croziers and Pastoral Staves [520]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. [523]
Notices to Correspondents [524]
Advertisements [524]
NOTES.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCOTTISH BALLADS.
In the ballad of "Annan Water" (Border Minstrelsy, vol. iii.) is the following verse:—
"O he has pour'd aff his dapperpy coat,
The silver buttons glanced bonny;