SALKELD, Curious Remains at, i.
Salt, a charm against evil spirits,
i. 311.
The falling of, ii. 278.
SALTATIO PYRRHICA, i. 236.
Sapientes, or Sophis, ii. 63.
Sarum, Monument in the cathe-
dral of, ii, 287.
SATYRISCI, i. 108,
Say, ii. 21,
Scadding of Peas, ii. 266.
SCALDS AND BURNS, i. 205.
School of the Angles, ii. 126.
SCOT-ALES, i. 282.
Sea, Custom at, ii. 265.
Seasons, Astronomical, ii. 281.
Popular, id.
SEEK, to blow a, ii. 138.
Sengyll, ii. 138'
SHEEP, THE GOLDEN-FLEECED, i. STEPHEN'S (SAINT) DAY, Horses
SITH, ii. 220.
SKIBBS, ii. 250.
SLAIGHTS, i. 282.
Sleepers, the Seven, ii. 104.
medicine, i. 156.
STRONG WOMAN, i. 253.
STYLE, Old and New, i. 112.
Subdeacons, Feast of, i. 14.
Suitors, i. 325.
Summer, Astronomical and Po-
pular, ii. 282.
Summer Solstice, ii. 8.
SUN, dancing on Easter-Day,i.191.
of Numbers, íd.
of Les Hans, i. 300.
of Revenans, id.
Fifollets, i. 301.
Letiches, id.
Lubins, id.
Goblin, id.
Loup Garon, i. 302.
Rongeur D'os, i. 303.
La Iete Saint Loup, id.
in North Wiltshire, i. 304.
of choosing Valentines, i. 305.
of Lide and Ramsins, id.
of Onions, i. 44, 45, 47.
how to raise the Wind,i. 305.
of the Teeth, id.
of Hares, i. 306.
of the Holy Mawle, id.
of the Sieve and Shears, id.
of Magpies, id.
of Running Streams, id.
of Horses hag-ridden, id.
of Thief in a Candle, id.
of Whinny Moor, i. 307.
of the New Moon, i. 309.
of Invisible Beans, id.
of Thunder, i. 310.
of Horseshoes, id.
of Invisibility, id.
of the Silly-How, i. 311.
of Salt, id.
of Unlucky Hours, id.
Spell against Hydrophobia,
of the Jews as to Houses,
ii. 265.
SUPERSTITIONS, Popular.
in regard to the Sea, id.
of signing with the Cross,
ii. 266.
a Charm against Thunder,
ii. 270.
in regard to Ashes, ii. 271.
of Magpies, id.
of Invisibility, ii. 275.
of seeing Lovers, ii. 275, 276.
of Dumb Cakes, ii. 31, 276.
of the New Moon in York-
shire, ii. 276.
of the Mistletoe, id.
of black Cats, ii. 278.
of the falling of Salt, id.
of Fairies, id.
of Pewits, ii. 279.
of the Ox on Christmas Eve,
ii. 305.
Swanimote, ii. 237.
SWITHIN (Saint), ii. 103.
SYLPHS, i. 151.
Symbols, the practice of, whence
derived, ii. 61.
Symmachus, ii. 185.
Symposiarch, how elected, i. 29.
Synod, Constantinopolitan in 867,
i. 295.
Synodals, ii. 290.
(Thrift, worn by the Morris
Dancers, i. 240.
THUNDER, i. 210, 310.
Theophylact, introduces Feast of
Fools, i. 13.
His death, i. 14.
Thirteen, a bad Omen, i. 299.
Thomas (St.) Day, ii. 297.
THRESHING THE FAT HEN, i. 65.
charm against, ii. 270.
TIDDY DOLE, i. 254.
TIM TATTERS, i. 60.
TIMYCHA, Story of, i. 126.
TOASTS, origin of, ii. 330.
Toledo, Council of, i. 11.
TOWN-WAITS, i. 65.
Transfiguration, ii. 130.
TRANSMUTATION OF METALS, i.
135.
TRAVERS, i. 186.
TRARAMES, i. 155.
TREASURE-SEEKING, i. 153.
Trefoil, i. 116.
Trilidi, ii. 120.
TRUCKLE-CHEESE, i. 57.
Trullum, or Trullan Council, ii.
25.
Tutbury, Bull Running at, ii.
132, 140.
custom of the Flitch of
Bacon at, ii. 226.
TUCK, FRIAR, i. 235.
his Dress, i. 238.
Twelfth-Day, Eve of, i. 18.
why so called, i. 19.
or Epiphany, i. 21.
Twelfth-Night, i. 29.
Tythes, originated with Saint
Swithin, ii. 103.
Virgin Mary, Assumption of, ii. Winterfylleth, ii. 120.
Nativity of, ii. 164.
Conception of, ii. 296.
VOLTAIRE, his attacks on Shak-
speare, i. 216.
VULCAN, ISLE OF, ii. 241.
WAFF or WHIFF, i. 210.
Waits, ii. 252. 311.
Walnuts used at Weddings, ii. 216.
WARD, John, ii. 190.
Wassailing in Herefordshire, i. 19.
WASSEL-BOWL, ii. 326. 329.
WAS-HABL, of Saxon origin, ii.
325.
how derived, ii. 329.
WATER-PROGNOSTICS, i. 293.
Watch, City, ii. 18.
Weedmonath, ii. 2, 96, 119.
WELL, LADY NANT'S, i. 179.
Well-worship, ii. 271.
Were-Wolf, i. 301.
Weydmonath, ii. 2.
Wheel, how a symbol of the sun's
descent, ii. 17.
WHICHNOR, WHICHENOUR, Manor
of, ii. 228.
Whiffler, explained, ii. 19.
Whiffs, etymology of, ii. 117. 250.
Whinny Moor, i. 307.
Wintermonath, ii. 281.
Winter Solstice, i. 2.
WINT OF WIND MONATH, ii. 234.
WITH, i. 178.
Woedmonath, ii. 2.
Wolfmonat, i. 4.
WOMAN, STRONG, i. 253.
Women, a charm against light-
ning, i. 288.
Woodmasters, ii. 137.
Woodmote-Court, ii. 136.
Woodward, ii. 137.
WORTHIES, THE NINE, ii. 337.
Female, ii. 339.
Wren, burying of the, ii. 304.
Wynmonath, ii. 97.
Zoroaster, his prediction respect-
Winter, Astronomical and Popu- ing Christ, i. 24, 26.
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.
THIS month takes its name from the Latin Januarius, which itself was derived from Janus, the two-faced God, who looked both before and behind, and hence was chosen by Numa as typifying the New Year, that stood between the past and the future, and might thus be said to look both ways at once.* Prior to the time of this monarch the Roman year had but ten months, and commenced with March; but he added January and February, making it begin with January, though the months, quintilis, sextilis, &c. still retained their old designations, as if no change had taken place in the Roman calendar.†
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"In duos novos menses pari ratione divisit, ac de duobus priorem Januarium nuncupavit, primumque anni esse voluit, tanquam bicipitis Dei mensem, respicientem ac prospicientem transacti anni finem futurique principia."-Aur. Macrobii Saturnal. Lib. i. cap. xiii. p. 263.
† Ρομαῖοι δὲ ὅτι μὲν δέκα μῆνας εἰς τὸν ἐνιαυτόν ἔταττον, ἐ δώδεκα, τεκμήριον ἡ τοῦ τελευταίε προσηγορία, δέκατον γὰρ αὐτὸν ἄχρι νῦν καλοῦσιν. ὅτι δὲ τὸν Μάρτιον πρῶτον, ἡ τάξις ἑκδηλοῖ· τὸν γὰρ ἀπ' ἐκείνα πέμπτον, ἐκάλεν πέμπτον· ἕκτον δὲ τον ἕκτον
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