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Avents, les, de Noël, 66.

BAAL Hills, 255.

Babie Coche, a Christmas character, 116.
Bacchus, the Sun, his different names, 56.
Bachelettes, christmas beggars, 123.
Bæl fyr, 302,-See Fires of Bel.

Baka, the name of a sprite, see Bock.
Bal Dan, 302 n.

Ball play, in churches, 203.

Boc, what among the Saxons, 9.
Bock, a northern name for Bacchus, 127
Boggart, its connexion with Bacchus and
the stag of Yule, 128
Bokene, see Bock.

Bon or rather Bone Fires, their origin in
the burning of dead bodies, 287, 299
Books, dates of printed, 35

Books, records of titles, 27
Bootes, see Buddha.

Bannock Brauder, 222,-St. Michael's Ban- "Borough of Walton," a treasonable de-

nock, 351.

Bar Gaist, 277 n.

Barley brakes, game of, 268

Barnabas, St., his day, 296.

Barnes Bishop, see Boy Bishop.

Baron, a title given to Saints, and why,
330 n.

vice, 359.

Borrowing Days, 210, see p. 208

Botulf, St., mistake of his day, 6 n.
Boxing Day, origin of, 105.

Boy Bishop, proclamation against, 61,-ce-
remony of, 178

Bragawd and Braggot Sunday, 176

Bartholomew, St., his day, 338,-patron of Brant Geese, see Bernacles.

Königsee, 346

Beards, wagging, epigram on, 159 n.

Belly Blind, see Blindman's Buff.

Bread-ale, 282.

Bremonatacæ or the hill of stone and fire,
a Roman station in Lancashire, 366 n.

Beltane or Beltein, 246, see Hercules, Hir- Brethren, sworn or wed, 266 n.

pini.

Bernacles, 379

Beuno, St., his coffin, 295

Bidden Wedding, 288

Bishops, Mock, proclamation against, 61

Black, a sacred colour, see Apis.

Brevia Testata, 26

Brice, St., his day, 384

Bridal, 281 n.

Bride Cake, origin of, 154

Bride, St., her day, 153
Bridewains, 289

Black Sow, 367,-what in Druidical rites, Britannia, Camden's, passage condemned

368,-See Boar, Hog.

Blackalla, for Blækulla, the resort of

Witches, 207

in, by the Spanish Index Expurgatorius,
82 n.
Bubastis, Diana, 297

Blakehills, Soutra Fells, singular pheno- Buddha, Buta, the sun, 246

menon upon, 310

Blase, St., his day, 157.

Blinde Bok, 126

Blindman's Buff, game of, its origin, 126
Boar, sacrificed by the Goths to the sun 93,
-same as Typhon ib.-its flesh the food
of heroes in Valhalla, 94,-head soused, ib.
-presents of, among the Romans, ib. n.
ult., ancient hunting of, 96,-Roman re-
cord of a hunt at Stanhope, 97, see Black
Sow, Hog.

Bull Baits, patronized by Henry VII, 159
n. ult., running, 384

Bulls, Papal, dates of, 45 n.
Buns, see Cross.

Burial of Alleleuia, 149

"Burning of the Old Witch," a druidical
relic, 138
Bydale, 287

CABIRI, their festivals in honor of the pla-
nets, 52, 72

Caca Brideoige, see Bride Cake.

Calendar Loaves, 110

Calendi di Maggio, see May Day.
Calenes, les, 110

Campus Martii, in Saxon England, 267
Candlemas, 154

Canute, his prohibition of Well worship,
130,-gift of St. Bartholomew's arm and
other relics, 298 n,-sworn brother of
King Edmund, 260 n.

Caput Kalendarum Maii, 266

Cara Cognatio, 52

Charms, at Advent, 66, against Witch-
craft, 200

Charta, a term employed by the Saxons, 9
Charters, earliest English, 10,-explanation
of undated, 29,-difference between Nor-
man and Saxon, ibid.,-circumstances to
be noticed in, 38, 49,-forged charter to
Liverpool, 39,-date of charter to Chi-
chester ascertained, 48 n.,—general diplo-
matic rules, 41,—particular rules, 45
Charwoche, 178

Chercheseed, 110 n., 383

Card playing, allowed at Christmas, to ap- Chichester, see Charters.

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Castor and Pollux, worshipped by the Na- Chroniclers, ancient, their mistakes in dat-
harvali, 73

Cathedra Sancti Petri, 166

Catherine, St., her day, 62,-patroness of
spinsters, and Catherining, ib.,-play of,

296

Cats, worship and immolation of, 297
Cautio, deed of gift so called, 9
Cavendish, Lord Ch. J., his reason, in latin,
for writing the rest of his will in french,
19 n.

ing by festivals, 5 n.

Chronicle, Saxon, confused chronology in
the different MSS. 3

Chronology, uncertainty of ancient, 7, 8
Church Ale, 282,-holiday, 353

Churches on the sea shore, why often dedi-
cated to St. Nicholas, 69

Church Scot, 110

Churls, king of, probably the origin of Lord
of the May, 262

Cave of Trophonius, 174, see Purgatory of Churn Supper, 343
St. Patrick.

Cerealia, 226

Cervisarii, the Domesday, 288

Chacke Blyndman, game of, 127

Chalkismos, an ancient game, 126, n. ult.
Chare Thursday, see Maundy Thursday
Charistia Virorum, 52, 166

Charlemagne, dates of his charters, 46

Chylde Bysshop, his song and sermon, 81
Chyrographum, a deed of gift so called, 9
Ciphers, Arabic, introduction of, 43 n.
Circle, Dance of the, 259
Clement, St., his day, 60

Clericus, in charters, the title of the con-
veyancer or notary, 14 n.

Clerk Ales, 282

- Cneph, the creator, 249
Cnud, king, see Canute.
Coats, blue, worn on St. George's day, 214
Cock, belief of its repulsion of evil spirits,
84,-a symbol of the sun, 85,-origin of
cock fighting, 160

Cockle, Order of, 356

Coffin pies, see Christmas pies.

Cursing enemies, Welsh and Greek custom,
170

Custard Coffin, 103 n.

Custard-eater, a treasonable device, see
Walton.

Custom at Mentz, see Valentine.
Cyff, St. Beuno, 295

Cymbelline Sunday, see Simbellin Sunday.

Coke, Sir E., his attempt to explain undat- Cymmortha, 170

ed charters, 12

Colcannoch, 373

Colin-maillard, 128

Collop-monday, 158

Commorth, 287

DAFT DAYS, 124

Dagon, see Owen, St.

Dance, astronomical, 259
Dances, Country, ib. n.

Computation of dates, Roman manner of, Dancing of the Sun, 291

inverted in the Middle Ages, 35

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Conversion, St. Paul's, 152

Conveyancers, carly, 14 n.
Conveyances, ancient, without writings, 13
Cwn Annwn, Cwn Wybir, see Hell Hounds
Coronation, sign of the cross, and other
ceremonies in, 192

Corporation of Walton, Mock, a treasona-
ble device of the northern nobility and
gentry, 359

Corpus Christi day, 295

Dates, remarkable errors in, 5 n., 6 n.,-

in the middle of charters, 28,-redund-
ant, ib.,-negligent,

rules, 41-48.

David, St., his day, 168.

Day, Lady, 206

34,-diplomatic

Days, Egyptian, evil or unlucky, 152, 208,
209, 210.

Dead and Living Ford, 129
Deasil or Deis iuil, 255
Death, Druidical god of, 138
Denarius S. Petri, 335

Devu and Dia, Indian incarnations of the
sun, 75

Court French, Sir Thomas More's epigram Dies Ægyptiaci
on, 19

Crispin, St., his day, 361

Cristes Maundy, see Maundy Thursday
Croix de St. André, not a saltier, 63
Cross, signature of, 20,-error respecting
St. Andrew's, 63,-buns marked with,
what they denote, 187,-numerous anci-
ent ceremonies, uses, opinions respect-
ing, 188-199,-destruction of, 198,- -re-
jected in signatures, by the Puritans, in
favor of the Phallus, 199,-Fell altar,366
Cross and Pile, whence the name, 197
Crow, left-hand, a Roman superstition,
257 n. ult.

Curses in Charters, see Anathema

Dies Atri

see Days, Egyptian

Dies Dedicationis, 353
Diespiter, derivation of 54 n.
Dii Patellarii, 277

Dinner, time of, Greek, Roman, Saxon,
and old English, 86-89
Disasters, Signal, on Lady Day, 207-8.
Disguisings, Christmas, 117,-Easter, 205
Distaff's Day, 139

Dius and Dies, synonymous, 54 n.
Döckalfar, 200 n.

Dominica ad carnes levandas, 158
Domna, Domnus, Dominus, &c. titles of
Saints, 330 n.

Dragon, symbolical, 53, 219

Drinclean, 288

Drudden Ey, see Egg, Druidical

Druid, derivation of, 122, n. ult.
Druidical Fires, 366,-see Death

FACE, February, 153

Facts, many false, in real charters, and

true, in forgeries, 40

Faiolteach, 211

"Drunk as blazes," proverb of, whence de- Fairs, origin of, 355

rived, 157

Fairy Food, 276,-skeletons, 206

Dugdale, sir William, his inaccurate dates, Februata Juno and Maria Purificata, 156,

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Edgar, king, his celebrated charter, a for- Fiend's Fell, 366

gery, 11, 27

Edmund, St., his day, 384

Edward, Confessor, his charter, 13

Edward IV. his coronation superstitions
deferred, 120

Egg Saturday, 158

Egg, Symbolical, 248,-Druidical or Ser-
pentine, 249

Ellen's Well, Lanc., superstitions at, 337
English, state of the, under the Normans,
17,-French attempt to abolish it, 18,-
begins to be common, 19
Epiphany, 134

Fires of Bel, 246, 252, 301, 304.

of Odin, 317

Fire Wheels, May Day, 237,-St. John's
Eve, 300

First Fit or Foot, 98

Flight, the night, of Fairies and Witches,
364

Floralia, 229, 240

Flower of the Well, 130
Fohi, the sun, 246

Folcmotes, when held, 266
Fonts, consecration of, 290

Fool Plough, a relic of the Julbok 139

Epochs, Mundane and Christian, uncer- Fools, order of, instituted, 357
tain, 7, 8

Fool's Prose, a festival, 141

Escallop, worn by Pilgrims of St. James, Forgeries, Agatho's Charter, 10,-Edgar's,
325

Esculapius, a form of the Sun, 75

Esti or Estonians, their funeral race, 285,
-supposed by Dr. Ingram to have been
introduced into Britain, 286 n.
Ethelbert, his charter in 619, 10

Eve of Christmas, see Christmas,—of St.
Paul, 152

Evil, King's, touching for, 193 n.

11,-by Saxon monks, 16, 40,-a Liver-
pool attorney, 39
Fountains, worship of, 130
Fratres Conjurati, see Guilds.

French, statute for pleading in English, 18,
-general affectation of, ib.-bad, spoken
at Court, 19

Friday, Good, 186, an evil day, 208

Evohe! a cry in medieval churches, 141, GAD CRACKING, petition against, 182

145

Gambol, a Christmas character, 116

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Going through the Well, a custom at Aln- Hog, a hieroglyphic of winter, 368,-see
wick, 222

Golden Bough, Virgil's, 125

Gole Feast, origin and derivation, 92 n. ult
Goose dancing, 201,-intentos, an absurd in-
vention, 348,-tenure, 138

Goule and Vampyre, deduced from ancient
sacrifice of blood to ghosts, 167
Gowk's errand, 212

Grave, fine for murder at open, 323
Gregory, ordination of, 347
Grodens Heer, 317 n.
Grottos, symbolical, 171-175
Guilds, origin of, 266 n.

Guisards, 123

Guising, 126

Gule, derivation of, 92, 282

Gule of August, 332, 334

Boar

Hogmaney Trololay, explanation of, 122,
282 n.

Hogmyne Night, obnoxious to the Puri-
tans, 161

Hog's Tide, v. Hock Days
Holidays abolished, 103

Holy Cross, brethren of, their festival, 277
Holy Innocents, see Innocents
Holy Oil, in coronations, 194

Honey, a symbol of death, 108,-of New
Year's Gifts, 109

Hoodman Blind, 126 n. ult.

Horse, a form of Vishnou, 75,-bleeding on
St. Stephen's day, 118,-why, 119,-of
Hela or Hill, v. Helherst.-Race, 144 n.
Hospitality, Christmas, 91

Gul Reazee, a Persian May Day custom, Hours, Dinner, 86, 89

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