Domestic folk-lore / by Rev. T.F. Thiselton Dyer.

  • Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[1881]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic folk-lore / by Rev. T.F. Thiselton Dyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS, CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND INFANCY. PAGE Value of Superstitions—Lucky Days and Hours of Birth—The Caul—The Changeling—The Evil Eye—“Up and not Down”—Booking the Empty Cradle—Teeth, Nails, and Hands—The Maple and the Ash—Unchristened Children 1 CHAPTEB II. CHILDHOOD. Nursery Literature—The Power of Baptism—Confirmation— Popular Prayers—Weather Bhymes—School Superstitions —Barring out 16 CHAPTER III. LOVE AND COURTSHIP. Love-tests—Plants used in Love-charms—The Lady-bird—The Snail—St. Valentine’s Day—Midsummer Eve—Hallowe’en —Omens on Friday 23 CHAPTER IV. MARRIAGE. Seasons and Days propitious to Marriage—Superstitions con- nected with the Bride—Meeting a Funeral—Robbing the Bride of Pins—Dancing in a Hog’s Trough—The Wed- ding-cake—The Ring 38 CHAPTER V. DEATH AND BURIAL. Warnings of Death—The Howling of Dogs—A Cow in the Garden—Death-presaging Birds—Plants—The Will-o’-the- Wisp—The Sympathy between Two Personalities—Pro- phecy—Dying Hardly—The Last Act—Place and Position of the Grave 48
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