| PART I. |
| SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES. |
| PAGE |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Lancashire Alchemists | 23 |
| Lancashire Astrologers | 33 |
| Bells | 41 |
| Beal-tine or Beltane Fires; Relics of Baal Worship | 45 |
| Boggarts, Ghosts, and Haunted Places | 49 |
| Boggart Hole Clough | 50 |
| Boggarts or Ghosts in Old Halls | 51 |
| House Boggarts, or Labouring Goblins | 56 |
| Hornby Park Mistress and Margaret Brackin | 59 |
| Boggarts in the Nineteenth Century | 61 |
| CHARMS AND SPELLS. |
| Charms and Spells against Evil Beings | 62 |
| A Charm, written in Cypher, against Witchcraft and Evil Spirits | 63 |
| The Crow Charm and the Lady-bird Charm | 70 |
| Pimpernel | 71 |
| The Mountain Ash, or Wicken or Wiggen Tree | 72 |
| Charms to Cure Sickness, Wounds, Cattle Distemper, etc. | 74 |
| Charms for the Toothache | 75 |
| Vervain, for Wounds, etc. | 76 |
| Charms to Stop Bleeding | 77 |
| Touching for the King's Evil | 77 |
| Cures for Warts | 78 |
| Cure for Hydrocephalus in Cattle | 79 |
| Cattle Disorders.—The Shrew Tree in Carnforth | 79 |
| Charms for Ague | 80 |
| Stinging of Nettles | 80 |
| Jaundice | 80 |
| To Procure Sleep by Changing the Direction of the Bed | 80 |
| THE DEVIL, DEMONS, &c. |
| The Devil | 81 |
| Raising the Devil | 83 |
| The Devil and the Schoolmaster at Cockerham | 83 |
| Old Nick | 84 |
| Demonology | 86 |
| Demon and Goblin Superstitions | 88 |
| Dispossessing a Demoniac | 92 |
| Demoniacal Possession in 1594 | 92 |
| Demoniacal Possession in 1689 | 98 |
| DIVINATION. |
| Divination | 102 |
| Divination at Marriages | 103 |
| Divination by Bible and Key | 103 |
| Another Lancashire form of Divination | 104 |
| Divination by the Dying | 104 |
| Second-sight | 105 |
| Spirits of the D
Celebration of Christmas at Wycoller Hall | 256 |
| Carols, &c. | 257 |
| EATING AND DRINKING CUSTOMS. |
| Various | 258 |
| The Havercake Lads | 258 |
| Wooden Shoes and Oaten Bread or Jannocks | 259 |
| Pork Pasties | 260 |
| BIRTH AND BAPTISMAL CUSTOMS. |
| Presents to Women in Childbed | 260 |
| Tea-drinking after Childbirth | 261 |
| Turning the Bed after Childbirth | 261 |
| An Unbaptized Child cannot die | 262 |
| Gifts to Infants | 262 |
| BETROTHING AND BRIDAL OR WEDDING CUSTOMS. |
| Betrothing Customs | 263 |
| Curious Wedding Custom | 263 |
| Courting and Wedding Customs in the Fylde | 264 |
| Ancient Bridal Custom.—The Bride's Chair and the Fairy Hole | 265 |
| Burnley | 265 |
| Marriages at Manchester Parish Church | 265 |
| DYING, DEATH-BED, AND FUNERAL CUSTOMS. |
| Dying Hardly | 268 |
| Burying in Woollen | 269 |
| Funeral Dole and Arval Cake | 270 |
| Dalton-in-Furness | 271 |
| Old Funeral Customs at Warton | 271 |
| Funeral Customs in the Fylde | 272 |
| Mode of Burial of a Widow who had taken Religious Vows | 273 |
| Funeral Customs in East Lancashire | 273 |
| Bidding to Funerals | 274 |
| Situation and Direction of Graves | 275 |
| CUSTOMS OF MANORS. |
| The Honour of Knighthood | 277 |
| Maritagium | 278 |
| Peculiar Services and Tenures | 278 |
| Manor of Cockerham—Regulations for the Sale of Ale | 281 |
| Manorial Customs in Furness | 281 |
| The Lord's Yule Feast at Ashton | 286 |
| Riding the Black Lad at Ashton-under-Lyne | 289 |
| Boon Shearing | 292 |
| The Principal or Heriot | 293 |
| Denton Rent-boons | 294 |
| A Saxon Constablewick | 295 |
| Talliage or Tallage | 296 |
| Rochdale Tithe, Easter-dues, Mortuaries, etc. | 297 |
| Farm and Agricultural Celebrations in the Fylde | 298 |
| Dalton-in-Furness | 299 |
| Letting Sheep Farms in Bowland | 300 |
| MediÆval Latin Law Te
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