Thomas Turner Wilkinson, John Harland
Lancashire Folk-lore
Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066219109
Table of Contents
SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES.
BEAL-TINE OR BELTANE FIRES; RELICS OF BAAL WORSHIP.
BOGGARTS, GHOSTS, AND HAUNTED PLACES.
BOGGARTS OR GHOSTS IN OLD HALLS.
HOUSE BOGGARTS, OR LABOURING GOBLINS.
HORNBY PARK MISTRESS AND MARGARET BRACKIN.
BOGGARTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
CHARMS AND SPELLS AGAINST EVIL BEINGS.
A CHARM, WRITTEN IN CYPHER, AGAINST WITCHCRAFT AND EVIL SPIRITS.
THE CROW CHARM AND THE LADY-BIRD CHARM.
THE MOUNTAIN ASH, OR WICKEN OR WIGGEN TREE.
CHARMS TO CURE SICKNESS, WOUNDS, CATTLE DISTEMPER, ETC.
CURE FOR HYDROCEPHALUS IN CATTLE.
CATTLE DISORDERS.—THE SHREW TREE IN CARNFORTH.
TO PROCURE SLEEP BY CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF THE BED.
THE DEVIL & THE SCHOOLMASTER AT COCKERHAM.
DEMON AND GOBLIN SUPERSTITIONS.
DEMONIACAL POSSESSION IN 1594.
DEMONIACAL POSSESSION IN 1689.
ANOTHER LANCASHIRE FORM OF DIVINATION.
SPIRITS OF THE DYING AND THE DEAD.