Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (well read books .TXT) 📕

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">212. Cobwebs, used for stanching blood, 265. Cock, crows on Christmas Eve, 103; spirits disappear at cock-crow, 48. Cock-a-hoop, applied to a reckless person, 107. Cockatrice, superstitions relating to, 174, 175; applied to a loose woman, 175. Cock-boat, 108, note. Cock-chafer, old name for, 100. Cock-fighting, 105. Cockle, badge of pilgrims, 498. Cock-light, 160. Cock’s-body, 106. Cock-shut time, name for twilight, 159. Cock’s-passion, 106. Coddling, apple so called, 206. Cold palsies, 284. Colt, its metaphorical use, 175; pixey, 6. Columbine, a thankless flower, 212. Comets, considered ominous, 89. Cony-catch, term for cheating, 196. Cooling-card, 415. Coranto, old dance, 426. Cormorant, 108. Corpse, unlucky to keep on board, 370. Cotswold games, 316. Couch-glass, 243. “Coventry Mysteries,” 313. Crab, name of apple, 205. Crants, name for garlands, 374. Cricket, a good omen; 251; unlucky, 516. Crispin’s (St.) Day, 325. Crocodile, tears of, 176; said to be deceitful, 176. Cross, wood of, 208. Cross-bow, shooting with, 178. Cross-road, ghosts of suicides haunt, 382. Crow, bird of ill-omen, 108. Crow-flowers, 212. Crowfoot, 213. Crow-keeper, 109. Crown, burning, placed on criminals, 436, 437. Cry, applied to pack of hounds, 179. Cry Budget, a watchword, 529. Crystal, old term for the eye, 483. Cuckold, 113. Cuckoo, superstitions connected with, 110-113. Cuckoo-buds, 213. Cuckoo-flowers, 213. Cuerpo-Santo, meteor so called, 84. Curfew-bell, 85. Curtal dog, 183. Cut, name for a horse, 192. Cuttle, a foul-mouthed person so called, 498. Cypress, 213, 214.   Daffodil, weather-lore of, 214. Dances, 424-432. Dancing, ascribed to fairies, 18. Dark-house, term for a mad-house, 50, 278. Darnel, 215. Date, 215. David’s (St.) Day, 226, 303. Dead, burying of, in their ordinary dress, 375, 376; feasts of the, 378; tombs of, ornamented, 377; cannot die on pigeons’ feathers, 367; closing eyes of, 372; decorated with flowers, 373. Dead men’s fingers, orchis so called, 227. Death and burial customs, 362-385. Death, prophecy at point of, 362; high spirits presage impending, 363; warnings at time of, 364, 365; watch, 516; delayed until ebb of tide, 370; devil seizes soul at, 365. Death’s-head rings, 388. Deer, hunting customs relating to, 177-181; shooting with cross-bow, 178; tears of, 180. Deformed children, 78. Deformity, superstitions connected with, 269, 270. Demoniacal possession, 475. Demonology, 52-61. Dennis, St., patron saint of France, 326. Devil, cloven foot of, 57. Devil’s Dyke, myth of, 189. Dew, its supposed virtues, 90; curious notions respecting, 63. Dice, 402. Disedge, term in falconry, 127. Divine right of kings, 512. Dog, its howl ominous, 181, 516; rides with ghosts, 49; days, 183, 319; killer, 183. Domestic fowl, 113. Dove, customs associated with, 113-115; Mahomet’s, 115; of Venus, 115. Dragon, type of evil, 184; draws chariot of night, 184; folk-lore of, 185. Dreams, prognostics of good and evil, 508; malicious spirits torment their victims in, 509. Dribble, term in archery, 411. Drowning, dangerous to save a person from, 271. Duck, to swim like a, 116. Duck-hunting, 115. Duels, 509. Dun is in the mire, Christmas game, 403. Dwarf elder, superstition connected with, 216.   Eagle, gazes on the sun, 116; its great age, 117; bird of good omen, 118; selected for Roman standard, 118. Ear, tingling of, 480; biting of, expression of endearment, 481; want of, for music, 481. Earnest-money, 528. Earthquakes, cause of, 93; ominous, 93, 516. Easter morning, dancing of sun on, 63; clacking at, 302; new clothes worn on, 302; Monday, 302, 303. Ebb of tide, death delayed until, 370. Ebony, emblem of darkness, 215. Eclipses, savage notions respecting, 71; unlucky, 72, 516; a bad omen, 65. Eels, roused by thunder, 93. Eggs in moonshine, 78; witches sail in, 35. Eisel, name for vinegar, 292. Elberich, 14. Elbow, itching of, 481. Elder, tree on which Judas hanged himself, 216; plant of bad omen, 216. Elements, the four, 475. Elephant, said to have no joints, 186; capture of, 186. Elf-fire, 87, note; elf-locks, 190. Elfin-grey, 17. Elmo’s (St.) stars, 84. Elves, 9. Embossed, applied to deer, 179. Emmew, a term in falconry, 128. Engine, name for the rack, 439. Epilepsy, 271, 283. Equinox, weather-lore of, 93. Eringoes, 217. Etheldreda’s (St.) Day, 324. Evil spirits, assume various forms, 53; a dead friend, 55. Exclamations, 529-531. Exorcism of spirits, 44. Eyas-musket, name for a young sparrow-hawk, 154. Eye, closing of, at death, 372; bitten, 335; blueness of, 482; the evil, 335, 482.   Face, to play the hypocrite, 484. Fading, a dance, 426. Fairies, assume various forms, 12; attentive to youthful dead, 22; beauty of, 10; fond of cleanliness, 18; diminutiveness of, 12; dislike irreligious people, 18; dress of, 17; enrich their favorites, 21; exchange children, 24; expeditious in their actions, 21; fatal to speak to, 21; fond of dancing and music, 17, 18; haunts of, 15; immortality of, 11; kind to mortals, 20; malignant, 22; mischievous, 23; perpetual youth of, 11; vanish at will, 12. Fairy revels, 18. Fairy-rings, 15, 16, 232. Falcon-gentle, species of hawk, 158. Falling-sickness, 271. Fast and loose, a cheating game, 403. Feet, stumbling of, unlucky, 454. Fencing, 404. Fennel, an inflammatory herb, 217. Fern-seed, renders invisible, 217, 218. Feux follets, name for will-o’-the-wisp, 88. Fever, spider a cure for, 258. Fiery dragon, 85. Fiery Trigon, 79. Fig, phrases connected with, 218, 219. Filliping the toad, game of boys, 406. Finch-egg, 101. Finger, itching of, 482. Finger-stone, 92. Fire-drake, 84, 85. Fistula, 271, 272. Fit, 272, 273. Fitchew, 196. Flagellation, treatment for persons possessed, 56. Flap-dragon, 406. Flap-jacks, name for pancakes, 299. Flaws, sudden gusts of wind, 95. Fleas, loach said to breed, 499. Fleshment, military term, 541. Fleur-de-lys, 219. Flibbertigibbet, a fiend, name also for ignis fatuus, 6, 61, 85, 269. Flitter-mouse, term for the bat, 163. Flower-de-luce, 219. Flowers, carried on a maiden’s coffin, 374; for decorating corpses, 374; on graves, 373; at weddings, 355. Flowering Sunday, 374. Fly, form of an evil spirit, 54. Folk-medicine, 264-295. Fools, 532. Football, 407. Forelooked, term for evil eye, 335. Forfeits, 533. Fortune-tellers, 510. Fox, hunting of, 187; a weapon so called, 186. Frateretto, fiend so called, 61. Friar’s lantern, name for ignis fatuus, 87, note. Frogs used for divination, 252. Fullams, false dice, 403. Funeral rites, supposed necessity for, 46, 382.   Gad-fly, 252. Gage, a glove so called, 536, note. Gall of goat, used by witches, 187. Galliard, dance, 425, note. Gambling, 533. Game laws, 180. Garters, 534. Gaudy days, 535. George (St.) and dragon, myth of, 184. George’s (St.) Day, 304. Giants, belief in, 512. Gib cat, 173. Gillyflower, 221. Gimmal-ring, 347. Gleek, old game, 408. Glove, worn as a favor, 536; memorial of a friend, 536; signal of a challenge, 536; a pledge, 537; scented, 538. Glow-worm, superstition relating to, 138. Goat, superstition relating to, 187. “God save the mark,” exclamation, 529. God’s tokens, plague-spots, 285. Gold, melted, poured down the throat, 369; chains, worn by persons of rank, 544; medicinal virtues of, 273. Golden-russeting, name of an apple, 206. Goldfinch, 119. Good Friday, 301. Good Lubber, name of a spirit, 8. Good year, corruption of goujère, 274. Goose, emblem of cowardice, 119; terms connected with, 118, 119. Gossamer, notions relating to, 259. Gossip’s bowl, 205. Gourds, false dice, 402. Gout, 288. Grand liquor, the aurum potabile of alchemists, 274. Grave, position of, 382; yards, haunted by spectres, 381, 382. Gudgeon, 498. Guinea-hen, 113. Gull, term for a fool, 120; used for a trick or imposition, 120. Gull-catcher, applied to sharpers, 120; groper, 120. Gurnet, term of reproach, 499.   Habundia, Mab, perhaps, a contraction of, 4. Hack,