Folk Lore eBook

James Napier
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 190 pages of information about Folk Lore.

Folk Lore eBook

James Napier
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 190 pages of information about Folk Lore.
Speaking Aloud to One’s Self, 138 Spell to make a Fire Kindle, 135 Spider, A Legend concerning, 115 Spittle Confirming Bargain, 100 Spittle, Customs connected with, 100 Social Habits of Elfland, 26 Sorcerers, 108 Souls of the Departed, 11 Sooth Sayers, 10 Sow to Meet in the Morning, 120 St. Augustus, 152 St. John’s Day Festival, 174 St. John’s Wort:  a Talisman, 128 Stealing Children and Youths by Fairies, 21 Star Gazers, 10 Stonehenge, 171 Strangers on the Grate, 140 Stye, Cause of, 96 Stye, Cure for, 97 Suicides, Superstition relating to, 85 Sun Worship in Ancient Times, 146 Sun, Primary God of the Ancient, 9 Survival of Sun Worship, 145 Superstitious Rites with a Corpse, 60 Superstition, Meaning of, 2 Swallows, Omens connected with, 112 Sympathetic Cures, 91

Thank-offering for Answer to Prayer, 13
Theory of Curing by Charms, 91
Touching for Disease, 91
Touching of a Corpse to Prevent Dreaming of it, 63
Twin Nuts in One Shell, 136

Visions, Seeing, 72
Visit to Stonehenge on Midsummer, 171

Warts, Cure for, 97
Weighing Children Unlucky, 137
Willow, The, 125
White Butterfly, 115
Wishes Fulfilled, 87
Wishes against Self:  an Oath Fulfilled, 88
Withershins, 133
Witches, A, Account of Fairyland, 22
Witches Changing their Shape, 70

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