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The Folk-Lore
Society.
(1895.)
EDWAKI) CLODl).
ANDKEW LANG,
M.A.
SIR
M.P., D.C.L.,
EDWARD
MISS
C.
BURNE.
S.
LAURENCE GOMME,
G.
F.S.A.
CTounril.
Dr.
PROF. A.
BILLSON. M.A.
C. J.
KARL
W. BRABROOK, F.S.A.
MISS M. ROALFE COX.
U.A., F.LS.
F.S.A.
F.L.S., F.E.S.
NAAKE.
ALFRED NUTT.
T. FAIRMAN ORDISH, F.S.A.
PROFESSOR F. YORK POWELL,
FRAZER, M.A.
DR. M. GASTER.
W. B. GERISH.
MISS G. M. GODDEN.
G.
M.A., F.S.A
HENRY
il)on.
W. BRABROOK,
KIRBY,
\V. F.
J. T.
THE REV.
E.
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E.
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J.
C.
SIDNEY FIAKTLAND,
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Committees.
1846
AND
1859.
EDITED BY
Dr.
JAMES HARDY,
VOL.
II.
LONDON
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BY DAVID NUTT,
270,
1895.
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PEEFACE.
^
The
of Dr.
it
up
issue of this
Hardy when
at this stage,
at
its
made
to
but
much
the
in
a hurry
student
poses
jn
'^,
'i
is
now
to
seeks
badly
line
to use
Of course
without
their
The
off".
between
collections
work
world
The dividing
who
perfect,
and
was a record,
it
antiquaries.
being derived
sympathy goes
my
I confess
who were
before
results of value
their
I took
press.
to the illness
the
for
this
too
is
class
collector
scientific
the
of
and
pur-
The functions
be kept distinct.
for.
-^
scientific
Bough
or Mr.
collection
Hartland's Perseus,
as
is
Mr.
is
a thing to pray
such as this in a
Frazer's
Golden
J
^^
But the
PREFACE.
VI! I
When
classification
to
Superstitions
and
modern
life
what
the substantive of
is
is
human
life
of
the facts
by
truth
that
is
marriage, or death,
itself to see
now
superstition
a
to
domestic
the
any other
side of
modern
And
original form.
life^
attached
it
modern
birth,
to
modern
the
actions of
qualify
to
agreement.
in true
The
made
are
beliefs
is
it
with,
agriculturist, or
cir-
observance, not
its
afi'octed
later
its
Denham was
collection
not
haphazard
is
guilty
my
folk-lore
mind,
it,
some fancied
anvthing
He
began
''
is
like
lore.
is,
burdened
general
it.
life
it
may
be
which from
a classifica-
witli
and generally
and
more or
ritual,
the
is
what
folk-lore
less extensive
and more
It is a reflex of
found
in patches here
and
existing
as
superstitious
remembered
and
different
down
His
this.
to classify
collections
later
winds up with
like
simply jotted
to be collected,
which
a distinct gain.
it first
into errors
of true research.
profitably
tion
is
was when
of
a degree.
to
fall
way
difficulties in the
game with
folk-lore
some
with
belief
others,
There
it
is
no
may have
PREFACE.
become attached
to
persons, a rule of
life,
attachment
this
ix
a place, an object, a
season,
of
class
is
been preserved,
association
it is
into
so
permanent one.
even
if it
If
am
it
best evidence
as the
assumed a
it is
much
not too
say that
to
To take an
instance,
which
it
w^ould have
it
now
it
right
")
which
beliefs
which belongs
have
been
Romans
whereas the
to dress,
^'left"
divination
opposed
(as
to
by
discussed
to
the
is
appears
been deemed
the
this
Folk-lore Society,
(p.
on
at
Grimm and
upon Indo-European
other
history.
It is
left,
thus
unluck of the
the
Roman
belongs to the
left
is
found
further
south,
riofht
wall
and
and in the
this
it
til
way
treat
of each
there
will
be
recorded item
found
of spirits
(on
some investigation
although there
are
to
study
separately.
folk-lore
For
pp.
The names
77-78)
philologically
is
very
here
for the
full,
is
to
purpose
this
classification in
which
different
and
needs
misconcep-
PREFACE.
of
tioiis
me
to
tJie
important
contain
to
Ajjparitions,
ghosts,
and
are
which
others
make np
spirits
seem
God-names.
indications of early
a large element in
The attachment
customs leads
42)
(p.
to
to the preservation
interest,
is
Family
a})paritions
seem
missed
later
but in the
many
of the
features
distinctive
Britain,
recorded of northern
beliefs
Mr.
groups
of these
last
Denham
has
enquirers.
Stones and
im-
or whether
Mr.
Denham was
in
made
is
it
Whether
this
is
due
a characteristic feature of
no sense a
literary
man, and
his i)eculiar
means of
whether
is
identification
all
makes
extremely
difficult to ascertain
no com})lete collection,
London has
Museum
good
in another tract
])ublication.
many
a great
librar}- is
collection.
believe, extant.
Antiquaries of
too, has a
it
It
very
of the
deficient.
made
originals,
Dr. Hardy,
and that
later
This has
There
The Society of
it difificult
to pick
to the original
the material,
and
in
261, 262-5J
the
two instances
(pp.
121-124, 132-135
258-
])rinted
PREFACE.
twice.
if
Dr.
tliis
until
XI
it
was
this
well
enough
to see the
have happened.
This volume does not contain a reprint of the Proverbs and
it
believed that
is
all
this
Society.
The Society
he has done.
added from
is
He
his
for the
work
own
store
of
Denham
Hardy
winter stopped
all his
work^ and
Tracts
some
that the
But
left
him unable
to
pursue
what has been the pleasure and delight of a long and busy
lifetime.
G. Laurence Gomme.
2^, Dorset Square ^ N.
May, 195.
W.
rOLKLOriE/ OK MANNERS
For
tlie
want of
and interesting
local
of history Avhicli
portions
lost
and
Midsummer Cushions.
This was a custom, used some seventy years ago at
places in the
Xorth of England
but
it,
like almost
mnny
every other
away,
if it
procured a cushion
icIiisJiion,
attractive
or, in
and covered
colour,
it
villao;e havino;
with
calico,
proceeded to bedeck
or silk
it
of showy
and
manner
so as to give
it
tlieir
in such a
All this
cushion of Flora's
VOL.
II.
soliciting of
was
numerous
set
cases,
liberally
Day, which
have never
Midsummer Day
to
Magdalene
Day, or Harvest
]\Iell
In the counties of
known throughout
this
rou rJs oP a
An
fiddle.
merriest
tunes
shearers, binders,
When
dance.
is
and
is
expected to
all
haste to
some of
i)lay
at
and lucky
his
the
inter\'als,
last
sounds of which,
the
to
the melodious
with
where he
field,
This
others.
all
entertained
are
the north
day,
auspicious
IIg^ie.
honoured above
is
Dav."
on
latter
The
is
when
to obtain.
day
I believe)
which
been able
in
all
bound up
is
man, or some
'*
rhymes
is
We've getten
Weel
boiuid,
't
mell of Mr.
Hip
The labourers on
this
"s
corn
Hip
day arc
Hip
Huzza
Huzza
good
which
is
often
added, by
way
of stimulus^
pretty liberal
rum
some of the
maids_, as
fair
village, chirping
This seldom
bottle.
send home
fails to
Some
merry.
is
now
Supper
When
This shilling
women
is
after the
by Mummers
that
their
to the regular
but
Shilling.
supper, these
is,
men and
This
is
in the
selves Cruisers.
Feasts of Dedication.
ales,
summerings,
tides,
are anniversary
the counties of
tive glory
rush-bearings,
Whitsun
feasts_,
hospitality, in
commemoration of
patron
'
hoppan
Hopping
saint.
'
to
dance or
is
leap.
derived
Dances
from
ales,
kept in
still
the
some
Anglo-Saxon
of time.
By an
Henry YIIL,
held on the
'"
[Gant,
first
in the
reign
was ordered
to
of
be
village
fair
or
wake.
Brocket t.]
B 2
East
(Halli\Yell).
Xot
in
termed phiys.
rails
and rowls.
Sunday
last
order
in July,
and proceed,
Cockerton, Haughton-le-Skerne,
Harrowgate,
berge,
Coatham,
racing,
Braff'erton,
and
Duck-hunting,
Aycliffe.
of secular sports
sorts
all
Burden, Sad-
are the order of the day on the Sabbath, and a day or two
afterwards.
p.
242.
and
name
of
Lamb.
Now,
which
man
[i.e.
by giving him a
^^reet
lady set herself and gave him a most severe beating, or, as
Northerners term
it,
a threshing,
whole scrimmage
we
Some
the bargain.
into
man and
his
better half.
Then Fame, with her thousand tongues, bruited the tale abroad,
and not without adding that much which made the little into
A consultation
a mickle.
Lamb.
with
'^
AYell, the
was held
it
delinquent,
and
for Mrs.
and
whole
leiio'th
With
And
full
villao-e
It isn't for
But
it is
my
't
stang,
for the
She bang'd him, she bang'd him, she bang'd him, indeed
need
nor stower,
neif
Hip
Hip
Huzza
Huzza
And
And
fule
then hit him sae hard, and cut him sae deep,
That the blude ran down his legs and into his shoes,
Like the blude of a new stuck sheep.
Hip
Now
if
Or that
Then
And
With
And
ivver I hears
lie
tell,
Hip
come
we'll ride't
Huzza
Huzza
't
stang.
again.
stang again.
a hey tinkle,
how
Hip
tinkle,
!
Hip
hey
tinkle, tang.
Huzza
Huzza
Huzza
name
complains of us ridin
we'll all
fifty
Yowe
years ago,
is
of
Lamb,
From
to wit, "
another
Yowe,"
i.e.
it is still
is
repeated
and, though
when
it
the occasion
variety
disgrace, as
mark
he
is
many
in
it is
of honour."'
mounted upon
^'
Stang," not
others
meant
as
on the contrary,
pit's
is
rather
mark of
a
it
crew a
'
blaw
The
out.'
is
expected
to
man
is
married
last
\gaudy
days.'
Both
"
grand blaw-oiit
Avi'
Grundy's
yell.'
[Gaudy Day
''
J. II.]
when
and
p. 51.
insist
on a
the
gaudy day
for instance,
;'
the first
morning
they hear the cuckoo, aud when the turnips and peas are at
maturity.
They
call
these
periods,
'
cuckoo mornin','
a pea mornin'.'
'
At such times
Lamb,
adYcrtiug to the
of Christmas, says
to
'
J.
when
the richest of us
Wilson's
H.]
Bariuxg Out.
This was a ])ractice once very
common
in schools of a superior
north.
It
St.
Day
Nicholas's
December),
(Gtli
may bo proper to
On this day was
Roman Catholic farce of
wlio^
it
Boy
Bishop, one of
whom,
I.,
at the
Chapel of Heton,
was permitted
King Edward
much
so
pleased
them a considerable
present.
Some
military character.
is
evidently a
Dean and
in the
that
Brand says
England.
was retained
Durham, and
the
the
in
Kepier School, of
York
and
at
Cumberland
grammar
those of Scotby,
was
also
in the Gentleman'' s
It
in
Westmoreland.
A writer
men-
:
In September or October, the master
school
by the
scholars,
who, previously
is
called,
orders
with two
is
the
immediately opened
board, and the day
is
bondsmen.
signal
beef,
of
beer,
to the orders, as
capitulation
festive
spent in mirth."
founded A.u.
scholars
is
specially directed.
See
practice
by the
Endowed Grammar
Sclicols," vol.
at llotlibury in Nortliumberlaiid,
son,
ill
ih'id.
of Cumberland,
his Hlstorji
vol.
ii.
vol.
ii.
or
p.
p.
259.
Hutcliin-
322, says
free school
of
tlii-s
Brom-
county,
IJrumfield, in that
It prevailed also
p. 133.
i.
of
An
Bhyme, used
Ebor nearly
at a school in
com.
Orders
Master
Onlers
Orders we do crave
And
if
We
we
are both
And
if
are but
stiff
little
boys,
and stout
out.''
Although the above may form only one half or may be but
one-third or fourth of the grand total of the poetical address
issued on these
privileged days
for
have cause
to believe
that the whole of the holidays claimed for the ensuing twelve
have thought
still
that either
be able to
it
worth
''
uncouth verses
in equally
A
still
relic of this
retained to a
awnre
of, in
and here,
much
the counties of
is
hitherto I was
Cumberland and Westmoreland
little
or
Loving Cup,
the
separate,
tin's
quantum of good
old
is
The
also continued.
is
of which ore
contents
composed of
liberal
This
handed round
assembled party
of the
to
taking
it
bowl
the
then
is
in both
By
hands of
the
time the
loving
all
all
to trip
Fig-Sue,
in the
it
is
still
ale,
figs,
bread,
families through-
The dish
sugar,
who
most
white
many
dance.
Good Friday.
position
mazy
have,
is
com-
and nutmeg.
tell
me
that
it
is
excellent.
Fairings.
The children
in
many
districts in the
whom
fair
''
Cowper,
CoT^-per, a
nag
or a knowt.
me
a fairing
"
?
same
to be
given in
tlie
Literary
still
rhyme
living,
Gazette^
I took
down
10
really valuable
and interesting
London, 1849.
And
marMe
Jesus passed by
Peter said,
How my
''
little
My
Lord
My
(xod
"
!
Mr.
records
Halliwcll
And whoever
stone,
in
"
!
my
sake,
Amen.
his
and
he has
^'
been informed on
from obsolete
far
"As
in the
Sant Petter
sat at the
Mee and
fiat
charm
fi^t
Lord
My
Teeth
thy
X-"
is
sead,
Eake Eney
>^ever
is
What
Eleth
More,
fiat
in the Physicians of
Myddvai,
p.
p.
453.]
141.
Saturday's Moon.
Eorster,
nivver a good
mnne
Bruges,
well
of
by and
Was
Dr.
shall
districts "
Crist pased
for toothache
Another charm
remote rural
known
by
as
meteorologist,
new
liave
moon has
fallen
in
11
Charm Prayers.
The following cliarm prayer
land and
is
children, and
is
used
day
at this
in
Westmore-
God
If
bless this
bed that 1
lie
on
Sweet Christ
is,
I lay
I pray to
And
if
I sleep
I pray the
Lord
my
soul to take,
Two
in
the
articles
Amen.
Folh-Lore Record,
vols,
and
ii,
the
first
Varia.
to pray,
soul away.
by W.
;
J.
of these
12
World
Satan's Invisible
In Sinclair's
varieties.
may
some
be placed along-
in the time of
peoj^le,
at other times
when
morning
occasion ofFereth."
He
of
palm
my
tree
dame.
My
shook.
"
God
all
FOLKLORE
"At
niVlit, in the
OB^
time of Popery,
when
folks
went
13
to
bed they
"
Who
They that
sains
ilka night.
it
Keep
this
From running
And
And
burning thief
from
^Yeir
a' ill
Hea,
And
from an
ill
wight,
light.
Keep
What
So
it all
is
the night.
that
v>liat I see,
red, so bright,
'lis he
thief;
Fast on Good-Friday."*
after meat.
Lord be blessed
siller.
* p. 148.
Amen."
t P- l-l^-
always before
14
Rhymes on Mountains
1.
in
When Eosebeny
Topping wears a
When
When Eston-Knab
And
Then
4.
When
Camden.
puts on a cloake,
Morden Carrs
Rosebeny Topping
in the
a chippe.
Roseberr3-e a cappe,
all
Ken
cap,
of a rap.
is
name
the
Camden
observes, that
is,
when
Morden Carrs
the
in
is
''
hill
hill
^'
;
hence the
county of Durham,
near Sedgfield.
It
Be
When
When
Lancashire.
'tis
sure to rain.
Cinubcrland.
Scruff ell wots full well of that.
When
in Scotland.
a clap.
Yorkshire.
flood.
Westmoi eland.
Guy Fawkes
cloggrel
or,
15
hominy roared
Kirkby Stephen
in
West-
collect
I took
chase of
who
many
had, on
Let the
bells ring
God
save the
King
Pray to remember
Had
Therefore
it
And
his companions,
all England up
But God's mercy did prevent,
Strove to blow
And
Going
With
And
to his play,
a dark lanthorn,
a brimstone match,
Ready
for the
prime to touch.
parliament,
16
As
Stand back
Stand back
be intended as a compliment
^'
it
"Aw
cannot
tell
what
to the reciter
it
means
when
larnt
it
sae,
it
to
to the
meaning
to its
to paper,
answer was,
tliis,
com-
it.
His
Singular Will.
will
was proved
This
is
my
I insist on
last will,
it still,
And
I,
e'en
laugh your
fill
William Hickingtcn,
Poet
of Pocklington,
Do
As
free as I breathe,
My
my
cash and
With
To have and
Come
cattle,
every chattel,
to hold,
heat or
come
Sans hindrance or
Tho' thou'rt not
cold,
strife,
my
wife.
at
York
in tlie
year
As
my
witness
Just
liere as
17
liand
I stand,
William Hickixgtox.
Schoolboy Riiyjies.
rhyme
Sunday
after Trinity
Stir
The following,
as also the
still
its
'"All
Rome was
at Popery,
It,
too,
members of
the
among
like
the
many
Betty Martin,
Mary
Popudariy,
Egg
shells,
is
sacr(}d
fall of grace,
curtail face
goose
quills,
bills.
ShROVE-TiDE PiHYME.
Shrore Sunday,
Collop Monday, Pancake Tuesday,
Then hey
flings
Knobsticks, sparrow
VOL. n.
in
''
in its
It
my
THE DENHAM
18
TRxiCTS.
bnns,
Butter them and sugar tliem, and put tlicm in your muns.
ON BaTHIXO.
PiIIY3IES
He who
bathes in May,
who bathes
Will
sing- a
He who
Juno,
in
merry tunc
bathes in July,
a fly.
Book Rhymes.
Ill
Dean
and.
Durham
Chapter of
is
an
as
we
learn
by Bishop Cosin
to
the
it is
library^ left
Durham.
And most
strange
is
is
a stane.
yt to
tell.
When
FOLKLORE OF THE XORTPI OF ENGLAND.
19
It is a
pancake
to smell.
North of England
of fritters
is
Thursday.
is
this
festival
dish
See Hone's
In Lanca-
7, 8, 9.
day introduced
on
Shrove Tuesday.
^'Fit as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday,"
is
saying.
is
at
found in
its
night
to poAvder at
it
is
regularly
I understand there
this skull,
brayed
which
is
to obtain.
Magpie Pihymes.
According
to the
ill
luck, as follows
One
Two
for sorrow,
c 2
see at one
you may
and the
calculate
20
Three
Four
wedding,
for a
Five for
Seven
Not
for a secret
to be told
Nine for h
And
Sir
Humphrey Davv
Devil's bird
a haggister
tionary gives
pyanot, and
''
maggy
Lancashire, a pyanot
good
i\\y tail
ground
ill
called
in his Dicit
is
called
At
AVestmoreland make
omen
fall
me.
making
for this
is
flee.
is
it
spelt maggot-pie.
folks in
names
Kent
in
Cotgrave
it
But
In Northumberland
magatapie.*'
Turn np
sell
nanpie, ehatter-pie,
in
awn
>se
Salmonida has a note on thos
in his
The following
verses.
much more
eflectual
the sign
charm
Hay Harvest.
Nay
be nowther
my
luck
in
(?).
"
21
warming
Rabj
Castle in the
to
Bishopi-ic, at
whose
feet
It
fact
this primitive
would be
whether
its
Church down
to
the period
were
for
''
Durham
was not
its
in
The Xoble
Weather
or
Nevilles,
Priory Church.
slain,
The
the
thirteenth
battle array,
in
church as a portion of
of the
vol. vi. p.
See
436.
Proverbs.
As
is
generally the most stormy in the year, the sailors' wives at the
seaport towns in
The following
" Folklore
or
pages
Manners,
Charms, Juvenile
England."
(21-80)
are
Customs,
Rhymes,
Ballads,
and the
of
sailor,
Weather
&c.
&c.
Proverbs,
in
the
Popular
north
of
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
22
-when
lie
'^
backwards
at hand,
is
[Chatto's
Border,
Geordy
the Scottish
p. 207.]
Rain Ehymes.
There are several infantile rliymes used as charms for or
against rain, viz.
1.
Come
2.
And
3.
And come
4.
And come
5.
na'
again on
Midsummer
When
I'll
G.
day.
give you a
little
cake.
7.
And oome
8.
again on Saturday.
EulVs
in
the pastnre.
Cow's in the
meadow
(varia clover).
Rhymes
When
't
o?^
wind's in
't
east,
When
wind's in
't
It suits
When
't
't
W^e ha'
When
It's
't
farmer best
wind's in
't
neist
't
west,
;
north,
't
wind's in
muck up
23
"
to
't
't
south,
mouth,
At
St.
Barthol'mew,
Then comes
cohl dew.
August.)
(2-4
Vulgar Errors.
1.
It is
an
articde in tlie
if a
female appears
remedy
at law\
Neither must a
If she
is
uncanny,
so
it
betokens
ill
The popular
Common
life,
about a love
p.
affair,
21
kSco
Southey's
24
Fortij Footsteps.
name.
this
1800.
There
is
also a
dramatic piece
bears
wliicli
positively asserted
by
mature age.
it
prove a thief in
will
moon
o.
I once
to the
new
There
is
a tradition that
proverb,
''
He
this belief
may
head of black
have given
rise to
the
is false
red beard."
6.
New
Day
Year's
your house on
sure to occur if
is
it
Never throw
be allowed.
may
allow,
your
this
bring in as
day
and a blessing
first visitant,
morning of
New
much
to
do so betokens
luck
ill
but you
and be permitted
Year's Day,
it
to enter
means
If a female
is
portendeth
ill
whole year.
7.
common
applying an3^thing to a
8.
If a child tooths
ominous of
9.
is
considered by the
its
dying
wound
first
is
never used in
or sore.
in
its
u|)per
jaw
it
is
considered
in its infancy.
25
Puddening Infants.
offering of an eo-g^ a handful of salt, and a bnneli
The ancient
of matches, to a
neighbour
England
joung
is still
child on
very prevalent in
ceremony
" puddened."
called ^'puddening,"
is
There
is
the
many
the house of a
to
is
said to be
ofi'er-
tality
lake
Brockett^s
''
of the
burneth,
that
ITort/.^, vol.
i.
c^c See
p. 90, art.
Christmas Observances.
To send
'^
of
all
first
that comes)
afford
it
at least
them before
table, these
and grocers
good luck
it is
upon the
to forfeit \\\q
is
Every family
is
A tall
mould
and
to their customers.
is
either
bought
would be unlucky
period
so also
it
is
set
considered unlucky to
candle
stir
till
field.
the proper
the fire or
move
any one
these suppers
it is
stir
from the
table
till
supper
is
ended.
Li
26
from the
Jast
Christmas,
thrown
it
fire,
till
good
luck.
go out of doors
till
No
A piece
next
it
will
by the
footsteps of a male.
St.
Xew
Year,
is
considered as
is
devoted
All
few
thrifty, elderly
Souls' Day.
housewives
still
(2nd November)
for
good luck.
Was
drown'd at
Mont
members of
the
Archasological
Ferrand.
rhyme
Of
at
At Montferant,
their
meetino-
or Montferand,
some
light
upon
it.
A
The following
down from
NuESERY Song.
beautiful
nursery
little
gem
unquestionably the
cated by
me
27
to J.
of baby literature.
now no more,
It
is
was communi-
Rhymes of
Enc/Imid, and
acknowledgment
The Babes
My
Wood.
ix the
How
And when
it
So sad was
The sun
And
And
And
the
it
moon gave no
light
They
laid
And when
little
down and
died.!
robin so red
leaves,
;
sigli'd,
things,
Brought strawberry
And
went down,
And, poor
The
was night,
their plight
p.
163,
28
in the \yooLl,
Poor babes
in the
And
The babes
The
is
in
the dead
bodies
human
of the
of The
Soldier's Repentance^
of
office
the ballad
by
eovei'incr
(tc,
wood
remember
the wood ?
don't you
and Webster.
the robin
is
In
invoked
leafv boughs
*'
and her
a burial to her
youthful lover.
Day
James's Day
Easter
a goose
at
Christmas
gammon
on Michaelmas Day
of bacon on
ovsters
on
St.
hot-cross
buns on
Good Friday;
proverb
bull
beef
at
Candlemas;
If yon but
To
knew how
If you
Eggs on
All Souls'
to
in
your
salmon and
all
flock,
Day
were
,o-ood it
Sunday
kinds of
fi^h in
a soul
Lent,
cake on
ikc. 6:c.
29
museum
In the
Keswick
at
A bone
or was,
shown
MulgTave
at
Castle,
Yorks.
in
is,
is
tlie
Dr. John
Book,
Le.o^.
cj-c,
Ode
Carr'.s
Div.
p.
i.,
Eichardson's Table
the Dericent.
to
They resided
285.
Corbridge
at
in Northumberland,
Markets.
Brough
in T\"estmorland,
and Pieeth
Xorth Riding of
in the
Wales,
is
St.
David's, in
Vulgar Errors.
A long
1.
into a
mane
or
tail
of a horse thrown
When
eel.
If a fruit tree
2.
is
tojiped with
saw
it
will die,
and not
3.
wind,
''
t'
was a
lad,
wise
man
is,
this
even
morning,
still,
occa-
sionally heard.
4.
also
recollect,
truly
lightning,
dreadful
night
of
wind and
manv
rain,
years
ao-o,
thunder
and
bear
awav
the soul of
to the infernal
30
And
regions.
tliis
England.
be quoted in
saying,
^^
very widely
is
which might
The
As busy
wind"
is still
used
in the North.
5.
Communications of
if
they
exist
and
Cliffe Hall,
from
Nicholas's to
St.
Richmond
so likewise
in
also
the vicinage of
also
secret passage
was
to
also
In con-
is
Many
6.
legend
told.
Fairy Money, Elf Locks, Elf Shots, Fairy Cakes, Fairy Javelins,
Puck
Fists,
{i.e.
etc., etc.
in the
rowan or
roan-tree.
8.
It
girl at
is
commonly
believed that
if
a female has a
boy and
31
Pax CAKES.
At
Sheffield,
sort of
more
for
to
and
many
it
there held as a
is
whom
moment
strikes twelve.
is
it
still
but
if
it
to fry,
and
toss
one was enougli, thej were dragged out of the house, put into
a wheelbarrow and
muck-midden.
the
LiFTIXG.
The
stanging as
many
it
is
Westmoreland,
called in
lift
Xew
women upon
the
preserved in
ladder or
is still
On
Year's Day.
pole,
is
left
in pledge
ale, at
to
the expense of
which
away
and
this
is
denudedt of
It is,
as
its
is
shoe,
may
be
Goodman.
*'
The word
is still
in popular
32
Caxdle-Bark.
now
met with
is
still
to
be
a cylindrical
now
of wood,
to
be kept
It
tin.
wanted
till
Herb-puddixg.
In the north
is
it
customary in some
still
herb -pudding on
in Passion
day
Week]
[a
in the composition of
districts to
pudding of
have a
Of the
those
household
primitive
thousands, are
still
and many
either of their
many hundreds
mills;
in existence,
bein<x
still
not
if
in the keeping of
history or use.
Dr.
visit.
Ball Playixg.
This
without intermission
[*
Eumex
Patientia
cultivation in 1573.
Dock
is
Alton's
Hortiit,
the North.]
continues
Easter.
till
Kewensis,
name
of
ii.,
p.
318.
Patience
Polygonum Bistorta
in
FOLKLORE OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.
33
Oi-D Shoe.
When
going
him
to
young person
be married,
for luck.
is
it is still
Many
Virgin Garlands.
This truly elegant custom has^ I
May
desuetude.
I,
however,
live
much
One
by two
girls,
who
placed
on the
it
coffin in the
Thence
it
was conveyed
in the
tlie
same manner
church during
to the grave^
to the
and
church
emblem of
human
life.
A garland
Bj
art
framed
shall be
and nature's
Of simdiy coloured
skill,
flowers,
New
Year's Gifts.
it
is
an elegant specimen
county.
tal parts
of
coloured silks
VOL.
IT.
I have
virgin's
cross, in
;
but
same
it falls
34
cliiklren to
Query.
he^
Is
tlieir
New
peculiar to
tliis
tlie
above county
day.
tliis
Holy Wells.
At Bowes, North Riding
of Yorkshire,
is
This
Who
Farmin's Well.
this
would be
settled at
in
Kirkby Stephen
the Eden,
in
Languedoc, and
Norman
Conquest,
the
is
known
Saint
as
popularly
is
Bowes
him no
to
clergy,
honour of
known by
semi-sacrilegious act
name
the
to convert
slightest opposition
fully
improving
This
At
countryman.
saintly
their
his
who
into
ale,
and
that,
its
waters
too,
down
to
without the
little
country town.
The well
Jias
ever been
WooDEx Trenchers.
These primeval utensils were universally used in
hall at
till
and
tlic
servants'
fact
were
numerous
the
fictile
the
plate
previous years.
pcrliaps
till
after
later.
contrariwise)
ol^jections
Fruit puddings
till
sweetened rum
sauce,
many
ratlicr
graA'ies,
were
all
35
They now
(1851) eat off pottery, and have their plates changed like other
Christian folks.
unknown.
Salt
are,
however,
still
Of pewter
nobles.
1am
still
In
sheep.
fact, it
was used
exists at Streat-
whole carcase of a
on the occasion
'of
haye been
told^
Ten
families
make
a tything,
make one
knight's fee.
Dviviiis.
The
works
is
unknown.
In Berwick-
shire there was said to have been a rampart and trench called
Herrit^'s
fragment.
To descend,
to
east to west,
modern days^
now reduced
to a
d2
36
Game, Nursery,
Draw buckets
1.
For
My
mj
etc., Eiiymes.
of water,
lady's daughter
father's a king.
One by bush.
Two by
Pray
My
My
2.
bush.
If
my
cheek,
left
cheek burns
be
it
my
if it
my
bush.
left
eneuiy,
But
under
be
my
true love,
burns
Avith
it,
Always begin
if it
i.e.j
the
rhyme
check that
or vice versa.
3.
Round
My
daddy loves
ale, and so do I.
Up, mammy, up, and bring us a cup.
And daddy and I will sup it all up.
4.
had
And
a grandmother, but
me
she learnt
5.
My
And
And
to
grandy's seeke
like to dee,
I'll
Some
cocklety-bread,
Cocklety-bread
And
Some
ril
cocklety-bread.
!! !
man may
If his wife be
Bnt
And
man may
spare,
nought
man may
spend, and a
37
lend,
be ono'ht.
Four Alls.
1.
Soldiier
Parson
pray for
3.
Countryman
work
4.
Farmer
pay
all
for all
for all
Christ3ias Rhyme.
At Woodhouse, near
Sheffield,
when they go
the children
make
And
And
And
rhyming invocation
you please,
will
all
the year.
Beaxs at Funerals.
It
funeral dole,
Church.
and hence
The
generation was
its
adoj^tion
to distribute
beans as a
God
Beans and
all.
is still
common
38
Still-born
unbaptised children,
persons
all
executed
in
persons ^Yho
excommunicated either by
eccle-
civil
is,
was neither
there
also buried
'^
They were
extended
itself to
where
till
at
High
Coniscliffe,
memory no
inter-
ments had taken place, the south and east portions alone being
used.
Such
also,
strange to
yard attached
sa}',
to All Saints in
in the
be the case.
still
crowded grave-
(2nd
1826, p. 22.
ed.),
of
Nciccastle on-Tijne
sepulture.''
Th? custom
Ace
Nine
of
diamonds
of
Six of hearts
Knave
Queen of clubs
Four of spades
Knave
diamonds
of clubs
is
of hearts
.A
called in
.
Ned
Stokes.
Sunderland
AYestmoreland
.
^'
fitter.
Curwen's
Hob CoUingwood.
card.^'
39
Sevexth So>
On
seventh son,
the birth of a
must
still
observed that he
v^'ell
as the
themselves.
Avas
doctor.
1)0
is
it
still
kings
blessed
The custom
when
admire
his hat.
tliis
moment,
and taking
by
universally practised
customary
limited
still
professing
all
Christians.
it
ofi'
were
[This
is
Arvel Dinners.
Anciently
it
to
{i.e.,
of valuable effects,
when
the friends
who were
possessed
The custom
interment.
solemn
this
are
still
so exposed in
bable that
is
At
we
is
Roman
conquerors.
ord
March^
1573.
Others,
Phil.
esteeming
it
^'
a grete vanity to
God
for
40
On
204.
30
to
''iVt
are gone/'
He
died 1651.
still
and
The funeral
pie
was
being made of
set forth
'
women went
ate at
raisins,
is
and of sweet
is
These dinners
shrid meates.'
prevails,
a rich veal
spices.
described as
were
whiles
the
in
the interment." *
women,
Surtees^
In some
districts of
England formerly no
to
to
the funerals
of
f
'
To
The Cradle.
In
it is
all sales,
either
is
at liberty to repossess
it.
and
it is
at
filthy
Alnwick,
fell
almost more than probable that the year 1852 will see
Ax
St.
friend
castle -upon-Tyne,
Mr. Thomas
name
is
still
Hedley, of
preserved by
Xew
my
Eoad, New-
"
Sliarpe'&
\ King's
to its ashes
Irish Stone.
respected
Peace
Art of Cookery,
p. 65.
i.
p.
p. 91.
259.
FOLKLORE OF THE NOETH OF ENGLAND.
dales of Northumberland,
frogs, toads,
common
Redesdale.
to deter
size the
stone
a pale
it
is
the thickest.
still
so
is
is
of
colour,
the
in
from entering
tribe
In
possessor.
charm
as a
41
common,
distinct
It
is
from the
publication of a
first
pretty
little
couple,
balks
who
benlson of "
the
moment
Banns of marriage
God
to
pronounce the
" on the happy
dialect,
Many
but also their offspring, bending the body towards the east in
adoration, ere they enter their
v^ery
many
instances without
pew
or
stall
knowing
and no doubt in
either the
meaning or
me
to
examine.
It
is
flattisli,
It
presented to the
had been
Museum
oiled to keep
it
shining.
It
THE DEXHAM
42
TIIACTS.
River-Gods.
The
is still
the Tees.
many
Peo;^Powlcr
dreadfully
parents, on
tlieir
the writer
still
its
banks
especially on
particularly
and
dragging
its
And
demon
still
is
mind
when he chanced
to
lest,
more
those waters, she should issue from the stream and snatch
him
watery chambers.
into her
Baron of Drummelzier
submit
Sir
Walter Scott
in the
to
to his
so that
on
his
fair
to
embraces
the
period
believed,
of
and the
his
departure.
child,
whom
to
The
the
lady,
name
however,
was
of Tweedie
was
of a powerful clan."^
and
less
is
is
called
is
the finer
Povvder's
Cream.
'John of Tuedie.'"
422, note. J. H.
as,
of the family
for example,
43
(a
the Thames, Avon, and a few other English rivers which he does
not name, seem never to have been the abode of a neck or kelpy.
"Weddixg Custo3i.
at
weddings
to be
run
for
extensively
is still
in
of the southern
Christenixg Custom.
few families
still
when
of the
slice
Should
this
be a
man
stones,
also
and by the
hag,
called
Scots
it
They are
or huse
that
will be a female
(?
witch), adder
fairy-cups, are
efficacious
to
difficulty of breathing.
X'OTE.
These
naturally.
its
seen
the
malady
called hoose
first,
because they
like holy-
sorts,
kinds
stones to be at
sweating in the
snake-
occasionally
and descriptions of
or
person they
Sto::es.
an
to the first
woman,
Holy or Lucky
These stones,
it
stable.
all
efficacious
must be holed
(See the
ocum angidnum of
the
44
also applied to
'^
celts
^^
The name
xxix._, clii.)
1.
stone -weapons).
(i.e.y
Tansy Pudding.
This piece of olden cookery
in
is
The
late
Mi\
Churclij the house surgeon of Newcastle Infirmary, was particularly fond of tansy puddings,
an excellent hand
at
and
his
preparing them.
Old Rotiibury.
we meet with
names and
places to
is
the following
attached.
In Nor-
Lyham, Old
Felton,
Carlisle,
Old
In Westmoreland,
In Durhamshire, Old
Old Durham.
is
said to
have been
built
by King Peri-
durus, about 270 years before the birth of Christ, and to have
its name from the circumstance of that prince losing a
when washing himself in ye River Costa, which ring was
Hence Pike -ring,
afterwards found in the belly of a pike.
derived
ring
now
Pickering.
fish
is
also
class, in
There
is
is
also a singular
York-
most
45
cruelly.
highly popular,
still
or the Cruel
Daughter.
Knight and
verses, a printed
copy of which
is
Fortunate Farmer^s
tlie
&c."
containing
Spp-,
60
Thunder Stone.
The quartz pebble, which
and
''
also in
is
tillage fields, is
and
is
believed to have
is
performed by
all
good
moment they lay the leaven-trough, containbatch of dough, down upon the hearthstone to rise
to baking.
The process is simple, and is performed by
housekeepers the
ing the
previous
making
right hand;
and
this
exercising
therewith.
My
dough from
any of
their
devilish
housekeeper performs
this
arts
it is
It also
in
termed,
prevents
connection
duty as regularly as
man may
days
an old maid
it is
undecided,
fifty
and three
exist
for
46
Jonx AVycliffe.
At Lutterworth,
Leicestershire, they
tlie
have a tradition
Button Rhyme.
its
tliat
into the
banks.
^yESTMo^ELA^:D.
A tinkler, a tailor,
A soldier, or a sailor,
A rich man, a poor man,
A priest, or a parson,
A ploughman, or a thief.
Bows AXD xVrrows.
Li a survey of Carlisle Castle, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, there
was found
in
all
much
needed.
of arrows
thrumme."
The
best arrows
The arrow
for
bat ash,
warfare was
bow was
The
border
nine inches.
yew was
ground appropriated
of
its
The
2:)lanting
to
of
yew
from the
horned
in
fact
cattle.
47
tree
into
^'
En^^hmd.
Ascham
tliat
the
saith
carried under
belt
from three
The range of
shafts.
moderate distance
Six
a^ro';^5
might
sherives
wing
''
of
many
Hall and
may
themselves
was grey
when
ripe.
his
One
drop
off
PiSTOLS.
and
and
stones, dogs
cats,
awd wives and pipe stoppers, grey meears and fiddlers,*itc .^.^c,
are common similes when speaking of an extremely heavy fall
of rain in the north of England.
my
hands on
During
it.
It rains
dogs and
their
cats,
moment
"'
It
lay
pours
mouths open."
and
little
pitchforks.
It rains
It rains
dogs and
cats,
and
Westmojeland.
48
A^ULGAE Errors.
There
is
very apt to
have
lice,*
and bj
my
made from
worn by
may
be
It is a pretty
toes.
if
i.e.,
another
baby.
4.
The ceasing
known by
the
name
length of time,
Yorkshire springs,
is
and scarcity of
provisions.
5.
it
6:
Hed
7.
'^
But
ladies an effectual
Fill
Fire,
fire,
salt,
and burn
burn baan,
God send me my
8.
by certain
rheumatiz."
is
tutlie
agaan.
it
* [''A
lupis
occisarnm
Amsterdam, 1G61
Ixi. c.
S3. J.
H.]
49
To rock an empty
cracUc
considered ominous of
is
comino' occupant.
Many
10.
look u])on
it
as a
perpetuate
fLivouritc
is
common
'^
sure to prove a
third, or fourth of
who
is
would
He
try.
is still
bit of a
living,
is
uamo
parent's family
in his
is
graceless prodigal."
Avell
have
[Himself?].
be the next
it
who
is
meets on taking a
a male, a female
if
is
sure to
a female, then
will be a male.
12.
The vulgar
superstition
which
is
common
and
If the flesh
13.
pliability,
it
is still
maintained.
portends,
it
is
said,
another death,
if
and
not in the
Brimstoxe Pax,
In the days of
flint, steel,
it
was the
hang
it
usage
VOL.
away
11.
till
next wanted.
Whence
and
so
50
Horned
remedy
the popular
to wit, notice
around which
and
which
tie
away by
Many
still
a sort of charm,
is
it
as
for
its
the Foot.
cattle
called tbul
ix
it
in the
knife,
open
air
the
of the foul.
effects
it
as
an
infallible
cure.
Church Use.
The
old though
Church, Yorks,
Thanks be
to
God
for His
Holy Word.
Need
The
Fire.
who
had a perfect remembrance of a great number of persons, belonging to the upper and middle classes of his natiye parish of
fire.
among
disease
cattle,
to
work
for
by
The
certain,
This
cattle
were made
miraculous
this
and
fire
fire,
to neglect
to pass
wood
yiolent
and continued
it
friction
was thereby
obtained.
connnon proyerb
in the
North of England,
is
51
RiYER OUSE.
It
is
extent,
first
in the
year 1399, before the Civil Wars, and again in the year 1G48,
before the reign of
King
Charles.
Wedding Omex.
It is
It
Taylors.
within the
making
taylors in the
fallen
into
]\[e.
(Printed
Set.)
went
When
ev'ry lassie
me
of
And
e2
it's oil,
in.
dear
of
entire desnetndc
cvc.
And
And now
Oh, dear
And
all
my
must
!
oh, dear
it's
Scq.
an old maid,
die
it's
not
my
And
fault.
oh, dear
it's
&c.
Anon.
From
LAMIl^"TAr;LE Dittie
What
licard
it
or.,
sung
(3rcl
Lament
a dozen bairns
and was
on the
tablet of
in a book.
for tlie
Dead
my memory
must premise
much
so
was induced
taken
who
till
witli
to implant
it
little
by time,
it
down
as follows
it
We'se nivver
He
see
him more
A fustian coat,
A fustian coat.
That buttoned up
It is
Isefore
name
somewhat curious
tin's
own
selves to their
my
Lrenky
1.
My
Riiyjies.
nutty-cock,"
him away
Breiik
nutty-cock's nivver
and spinning on V
crirding
wlieel,
My
nutty-crjck
it sail
Bonny
lass,
canny
avccI
to J. 0. Halliwell,
be mine
lass, will ta
And
sail sit
thou
And
is
my
to J. 0. Halliwell, Esq.
delight,
For
4.
Com.
3.
Esq.
Thou
be brenk'd by nnne.
Com.
2.
them-
Nursery
What
53
ail
my
I'll
father's
money.
away yhame.
And
tell
That
my dyame,
my geese,
all
is
I get
yhame.
i:.
64
5.
Rosemary
gvecii
G.
If!
If!
If!
gold in gonpins,
If I liad
If I had
If I
My
He
money
Lad gold
in store/
in goupins,
Another
7.
The twenty-ninth
May
If
We'll
of
Oak Day
Is Royal
rather superior
a holida_v,
run away.
all
rhyme
relati\'e
and friend of
many
still,
nor yet of
trifling
be received figuratively
tied
up
in the pocket
are, I can
the fact
either sex,
is
its
one
[this
word must
napkin of
at
individual dimensions.
modern pocket of
number
At
possessor]
in general to be
at a tea-drinkiug.
have on various
have inform
me
is
spice
which
is
owing
for that;
but those
name
cake
00
to
who
of burying
some peculiar
flour, fruity
an oaken
funeralj
and the
many
Occasionally as
coffin.
cost varies
from 3d.
May
" Never keep a
Kittens born in
May
May
"
are even
to
Death Omex.
The
each cake.
still
'"'she
at a
Old saying.
kitten."
to 4d.
Kittexs.
as
were
keep
and
From Long
Howlixg
by
^^'<\y
Benton, Newcastle
of Dogs.
nio;lit
or dav,
is
siill
con-
Max
Our
IX
THE Moox.
a veritable
man, of
flesh,
blood,
to all
donned in
as
we
was
are,
his
working
clothes, along
with
which he had
THE Dj^yilAM
56
name
and
I forget),
Tr.ACTS.
and
(the
fiice
command
all
Decalogue.
dog (whose
tlie
third)
in
of an old
is
man
1 see a
Fie
"
in tlie mooiie,
man
I see a
Clonting of
Thou
liast
The name of
the moono,
mail, Fie
man
I see a
in
Man
moone,
in the
w?ll drunken
man
MuskVs
^^
As
forme of those
for the
him with
man
as
rather that
and
his
Hist.
it
head
Kat.,
like a fox,
moone
is
viii.
and certainly
New
'tis
is
have thought
it
as
much
is
like a beare."
World, 3rd
edit.
like a
to be
All that
my weak
moon amounts
to
much
Bishop Wilkin's
Lond. 1640,
very
p. 100.
popular superstitions.
the
cxv.)
could.
boy
usually pictured
to the west,
lib.
myth
tliinke
the
slice loves
it
'tis
Discovery of a
This
guesse
poets
the
her.
the
spots,
and
all
are
tell,
our
still
who can
I never
we
as
see
''
57
in the
depictured
Others
who
scliool-
upon both
Be
to the present
lest the
churl
as
it
out
it
the
o'
myth
will bo
found in Numbers
xv., 32,
c.
twelfth century,
tlie
Tales, p. 229.
Palm
Crosses,
children in
Ha\'e a care
moon."
''
:
the North
still
relics
hands of
of England
on Palm Sunday.
The
mayhap
room
arranged in one,
mean
or despicable
were
appendage.
and poor.
his
Hence
the proverb,
'^
He
his
hand cut
palm in
off."
Another
hedgehogs or
them
ui'chins, as
we
call
them, have
still
is
that
im]:)uted to
have endeavoursd
of the unlearned,
my
endeavour
do so only tended to
58
When
schoolboy
I recollect that
wc were wont, on
the
we termed
it,
to
Lucky Bone.
This relic of another olden superstition
and
still
is
now seldom
seen,
This bone,
sike like
Its
as
uncanny
folk,"
modern heraldry.
Lyke Wake.
The custom of waking
but the use
is
now
far
the corpse
still existti
am
in a
few families,
from general.
my
in
An
old
woman
still
living
(1854)
in
Pierscbridgc.
who
God
this
kind were
common
So
a century ago.
59
tlie
''Wife
of Usher's Well."
poems
(a local
writer,
who
died in early
life,
in
1826).
so
Northumbrian
warn her
him
" Ghost.
Dinah
am
For the
in the grave.
I thus rewartlGcl
'
'
Seeing
all
are unavailing
''
dying person
sense of
will
memory and
speech,
if in perfect
health.
:d l.o'd
Ihis
is
all
alacrity,
tera.ed
'
a lightening
before death."
"
How
Have
oft
when men
A lightning
before death.''
Bom2o and
is
60
and
is
tliat
YOU are
tiie
resting suspicion)
corpse was
tlic
all
and those
entitled to the
and mulcts
to the lord of
accusations of violence
so that the
done
night
to
Formerly,
fairly
too^
and
was
it
or
day.
it
part
in
to
is
least,
at
prevent our
Bloody Stoxes.
Of
these
stained
stones tradition
tales
traveller,
or neiiihbour
still
of robbery
Kortli of England.
to
have absorbed
upon them,
to
is
it
In
hence.
said to keep
it
said that
many
cases the
disposed portion
of
English hobgoblins.
pe;llar;
trait
near
Tliis
it.
and best
I
have
marks
more natural way, by asserting that
they are natural ones, and in good sooth I give not only
credit to the assertion, but
beg leave
to
confirm
full
it.
Subterranean Passages.
Traditionary passages, of which so
many legendary
stories are
Gl
lost a
castle, situated
Bech, in search of
Though
from
he found
this pit,
he arrived
it.
at a
on the top of a
it
By
to
snow remained on
Among the
hill called
corn he discovered
Gervase of Tilhimj^
p.
975.
of the castle of
Wark
and butchery of
its
Edward
were found
III.
An
instance
is
which emptied
With courtesy
Manors
this
common
scaffold
when
and coins of
after,
the executioner
chamber of
underground com-
of a certain drain or
castle,
By
it.
also
is
in
For
dais.
alteration
act,
the
preserved
the
was ready
killed at
all,
see Fordim.
this
62
Tradition and real fact place this event in the year 1697.
Brockett's Gloss, vol.
The
Henry
of an underground drain in
civil
III., 1216.
See
we have
earliest instance
connection with
of
p.
ii.
Turner's
Domestic Architecture.
Tecs,
fully
river.
Money
King John was
Dic4Gixg.
so
remove
make
diligent
to
officers
when
invasion,
terrible
would be unable
search
for
treasures
satisfy
to
th\n those
he
Castle
King John
at Corbridge,
and Nero
Avhich
Simonburn
inhabitants
the
Richmond
who
huntei's,
Wallis,
ii.,
Castle, Yorks,
15.
dungeon
singular
to a verj^
great depth only a few years ago, with the same object in view
To
Gciz.,
Dec, 1851.
is
Brockett's
^''optJi.
considered lucky.
Worcb,
And the
ii.,
60.
said horse-
shoe nailed heel upwards upon the door or threshhold of the byre,
stable,
witches.
In daleish
seen so attached.
districts
great numbers
are
power of
still
to
bo
63
Burial at Cross-Koads.
"They"
Xovember, 1818.
respectable
little
liad
committed suicide
in
insanity.
it.
same time
usual
the
at the time
and
my
we thought
ground
which
it,
if
Sir
late
my
However much
this
and
was
cidled,
brother church-
to
in a
David
W. Smith
It
was not
till
at the
of every relative
"
heard of
Crown,
temporary
suit of the
not
law^
As we wished
secrated
if
of
in fact I
and that
cle se^
yard,
consequently must
verdict
and
friends,
town of
to
at
tlie
it
at the
be
lOtli
Alnwick.
assisted
snicide
(the
command and
friend,
still,
bodies of the
threat mio-ht
luirt the feelinrrs
o
o
as the
tlie
must
David and
distlie
64
unfortunate men, and this was carried out, thougli not exactly
at midniglit,
wish was
have
Duke
to
tlie
The
Hindly
in a lane, called
lane, leading
from Heckley
to
Eglingham,
was
the m'ound
them
for
to
come
down
further
we gave
directions
and horses
carts
when we
dug
travelled.
returned
from
do not think
I
tlie
distressed
melancholy
where
it
As
feelino-s.*
the
law was
Alnwick,
able
Avas
local events,
to
which I
some influence
interest in
be
circumstance had
painful
this
leo-islators.
supply
he takes
information
upon
Private
our
this
of
much
further
incompetent to do."
feel
as
on
druo;D'ist,
will
enquiry,
Correspondence^
1850.
It is
however
wayside, being removed under the cloud of night, and that they
found a third
final
Alnwick
Church.
Anciently a stake was driA'en through the body of a suicide,
but in the above instance this act was dispensed with.
The
burial
of people froi
Go
["
to
may
65
met withj
vulgo,
'^
in
met with
Many
at Pierse-
b ridge.
1.
He's a ganger,
2.
3.
It's a
4.
like
iii't
ass.
a bad bargain.
man
said
like
5.
6.
As
7.
words,
8.
I'll
9.
11.
He
up
sticks
his
riggin
(i.e.,
neets,
rattan.
12.
13.
14.
i.e.,
none at
all.
dishclout.
15.
squeeze me.
Jonathan Martin.
little
Ebd ale's
stockings, they're no
Harry Hodgson
David Pearse's gin,
of both," as
it
ir,
error.
VOL.
fit.
said.
fell
into
GQ
This
horned
tail is
is
cattle, to
make
make
it
bleed
is
and
and
in
i^arlick, tightlv
it
fashion
to
in
to
common
enveloping
all
end
tar, turpentine,
salt, soot,
Butchers as Jcrymex.
exploded,
classes,
is still
may
from juries,
be said to be
ancient law,
bade
a butcher
it
still
I believe that an
it.
Maydex Assize
was formerly the custom
It
"White Gloves.
to present the
of white
ofloves
hano-ed.
no prisoners
for trial.
make
the offerincr
when
is
to
to
be
there are
many
years
of outlawry.
i.e
Amongst swordsmen,
a glove of mail,
to
defiance.
friend,
is still
contempt.
even with a
st. 7.
See
Lay of
it
the
Sir
Last Minstrel^
as a gesture
of
FOLKLORE OF THE NORTH OF FXGLAXD.
The
Kissixr^ Bush.
The bush
Christmas.
is
May
67
this
custom
is
ancient token
of a
be seen
to
still
at
rib-
not only in the kitchens but also in the entrance hall for centuries untold.
at the
Church of Lindisfarne,
in
Holy
it.
This stone
is
supposed to be
stitious yeneration.
may
called
petting
^^the
From
the
burn
issues
when
it is
Lake of Grindon,
suddenly
the neighbourhood,
to the lonely
ber
it
lost in a
known
young mosstrooper,
tion a ballad
as
occupant."
Northumberland, a small
limestone, popularly
that a
in
hssure of
its
rocky passage
as a Swallow-hole.
in the
Tradition states
in attempting to rob a
farmyard in
very pretty.
The grave
is
Upon
now
this tradi-
remem-
^^^orthy of its
lawless
I fear is
lost.
THE DENHAM TEACTS.
G8
for wealth
and power,
term of years,
for a certain
At
exploded in Weardale.
is
not yet
appears in person, and not only claims the sonl, but carries off
tlie
body
It is
also.
when he
So that
majesty
is
either
easih^
would seem
it
or
satisfied
easily
his infernal
gulled."
Frivate
Correspondence.
An
singular succession of
ill
luck
among
came
who
recommended
the
An
it
it full
cow
All
fire in
an awful silence
^\
hei'e the
most awful
may
heart of a
at the
versed in these
to take the
stick
were
eldern, well
owner
wards plunge
lives,
and
it
for-
was
In
met
not, as
with
From
well,
My
story,
this, to
liiair,
and they
lost
no more
for
many
make use
of the language of
long years.
The supposed
my
witch, after
uobbut lived
pleases,"
?),
and
GD
Battling Stones.
These now unused
relics of a
still
numerous
throughout the length and breadth of the land, and must remain
so, unless
They were
home-made
to beat,
The
was thrown
upon the
stone,
into the
Another stone of
still
CNists
on the
It is
on the
Carleburv beck,
magnitude,
premises of the George and Dragon Inn, not far from the bridge.
I have
many
times seen
it
used.
It is a granite boulder, as
was
the other.
Nursery Ehymes.
A
As
Supposition.
And as
And
up
in a paper.
One
o'clock,
Varia in second
line,
o'
day.
time to away."
Bellasay
is
evidently
70
;i
''
coach-horses
'^
is
instead of "Bellasav"
At Wooler,
corruption of bell-liorses.
used.
An
Did ye ivver
Hung
see
And
Hung
fat,
Mother's sayixg.
My
son
But
ray daughter's
son
o'
was
my
an auld wife
is
^\'lle,
till
he gets a wife,
my
daughter
all
Southernwood Pihvmes.
1.
t'
The
2.
Lads' love
And
come
lads doesn't
lasses
if
'11
flite.
is lasses'
delight,
Lasses will
flite \_2.e.
scold.]
Charms.
Ash-Leaf Charms.
The even
The
2.
iirst
ash-leaf in
man
meet
my
hand,
left
shall be
my
husband.
glove,
my
true love.
life.
man
Tlie first
4.
5.
my
meet
71
breast,
who
is
I love best.
Even ash
Even ash
This night
my
I pluck thee,
Bnt
6.
An
in the clothes
8.
Find odd-leaved
And
9.
ash,
and even-leafed
clover,
thee,
Docken
in
Like an awde
2.
Out
wife's dishclout.
nettle, in dock.
stino-
thee
me
THE DEXHAM TRACTS.
72
and
a saying very
is
common
in tlie
is
comfortable homes
on a
to
many
to leave their
own
(splishj-splashy) *
cold, comfortless,
to attend
more
still
from the
too
is
certain
damp than
to a
Sabbath
where
colds,
much more
grave not
cold
the church.
Bowed or Crooked
is
effects of
free circula-
Sixpence.
left side
know
a lady
whom
less
Bowed money
to
another/^
Brand.
Gun-firing tSuPERSTiTiox.
In the
That
if
creed the
sailors'
gun
is
fired over a
following
occurs, viz.:
article
at the
bottom of
the sea, the concussion will burst the gall bladder, and,
like, it will
The
mermaid
belief that
creature, be
of the water,
it fish,
is
o-all
bladder a dead
life
it
is
the surface
also asserted
73
kept
is
tlie
spinster portion of
its
N.B.
Avho spoke, as she herself told me, not from hearsay information^
Ehymes.
1.
2.
Whenever
The lasses
[It
ought
is
lore
implying
to
constantly inquiring
belief.
black,
make ye fat
make ye
who
is
''
lean.
is
What?
that'll
H.]
J.
Corpse Usages.
The
old
cloth in the
room wherein
a corpse lies
custom was
still
generally prevails.
to prevent the
image of
of the corpse
(turf)
the
is
now
occasionally,
salt.
The
folks say
])]aced
salt
is
it
A bowl
done
to
of water
the bed.
I myself have seen a " stranger in blood " lean over a cor])se
Of
and
am
ignorant.
74
use.
mushroom
7)16,
is
One
They
inches.
6|-
j^enes
are
now Aery
rare.
common remark
an unburied corpse.
know
and took
made
to
in her form,
therein, like
many
This I noticed on
soil.
a hare
Bell-Horses.
The
last set
memory),
of
Forest
Hall,
Richmond.
my
Although
ears.
These
still
bells
it
nevertheless fancy I
in
last
(of
can
The Eev.
l\Ir.
which
is
It
(proverbially
liorse
which the
known
salters of oklen
tlie
neck of
as the bell-liorse)
tD
tlic
leading
of the trains by
is
fine
harmonious tone.
Goats.
It
is
still
a generally received
is
good luck
to the
owner.
Ox Children.
It
is
its first
month has
much given
per contra.
has
its first
Also that
teeth in
if
tlie
it
a presentiment
through
life.
upper jaw),
it
If
won't
{i.e.,
live long.
XoETHERN Proverbs,
1.
^vi'
when they
tayleurs.
when
ride scout.
3.
Three great
evils
come out
of the
North a
Cope,
a'
cope, a bargain,
Two
And
-.
cross sticks
a
The use
prevails at Scarborough,
76
and
is
is clearly,
future time.
all
It
[Bargain beVl
ye be deed,
till
tlie leers
liunder'
gangs
pound
if
Hell]
to
ye rue again.]
Ber. vars.
Roundhead Rhyme.
triplet is
sung or said
May
Charles
and
Oliver Cromwell
first
Parliament
the
back
refers us
East Riding of
at Driffield in the
to the
the
un-
Eump
by certain Jacobites.
Ray's Ilistoru of
They
are noticed in
"
And
of
The nights
No
dawning singeth
all
night long
fairy takes,
wholesome
stir
abroad
is
the time."
^[arcellus.
"
in part believe
toasting
Mr. James
York, 1749.
'^
political
it.''
Horatio.
Grose observes^
another incontrovertible
fact.
What
77
spirits
which
must
a happiness this
to those
chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this
festival of all festivals
when
(1), bloody=bones,
overrun
so
demons, ignis
hags
(4),
was
spirits,
(5),
night-bats,
(3),
llobin-Goodfellows
Jemmy-burties, urchins,
mock-beggars
satyrs,
pans,
(9),
fiiuns,
mum-pokers,
sirens,
tritons,
centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubusses^ spoorns, men-inthe-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers,
melch-dicks,
1.
larrs^
kitty-witches,
hobby-lanthorns,
Dick-a-
Bellingham Boggle-Hole,
[Boglehonses in Lowick Forest, l^orthumberlaiKl.]
There is also a river of this name in the Bishopric of Durham.
Boggle-hoiise, parish of Sedgofield.
Northd.
2.
Also
3.
at
ed., p.
4.
new
80, 1852.
This merry fay acted the part of fool or jester, at the court of
G.
7.
Hob-o-t'-Hnrsts,
5.
i. e.
spirits
of the woods.
Hobtln-nsli
I\ook,
Farndale, Yorkshire.
8.
The
9.
Mock-beggar Hall.
spirit or
Of houses,
instances.
name
78
Tuesdays,
Elf-fircs, Gjl-burnt-tails,
(H),
Tom-pokers,
giants, dwafs,
tutgots, snapdragons,
yeth-honnds,
redcaps,
bugs,
bygorns,
bull-beggars,
wraithes
waflfs
(13),
mormos, changelings,
Tom-thumbs,
colt-pixies,
caddies,
bolls,
flay-boggarts,
(14),
black-bugs,
hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes,
bomen, brags,
fiends,
gallytrots,
hudskins,
beggars,
lanthorns, silkies
nacks,
kidnappers, gallyrobinets,
trolls,
friars'
(18), hob-headlesses
nickies,
madcaps,
nickers,
(19),
waiths
[necksj
How, parish
11.
of Kendal.
There
is
Elf-Hills, near
name near
a village of this
enough a ghost
singular
story,
Cumberland.
Elf-
Cambo.
Chester-le-Street
and
Bragg,"
is
attached to
it.
with a
Nanny
sirnames,
is,
is
Powler, at Darlington,
I judge, a sister, or it
who from
may
17.
Occasionally,
is
daughter of Peg's.
Silky's
ii.,
p.
See
181-
20. "
meet
meaning, however,
be a
I also
A place
near Doncaster.
story.
nixies
cliittifaces,
79
dudmen,
Jinny-biirnt-tails,
(22),
dunnies
wirrikoAvs
(25),
lubberkins,
korreds,
brown-men
eluricanns,
(24), cowies,
mannikins,
alholdes,
(26),
kobolds,
follets,
leprechauns,
kors,
men, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabrielhounds, maAvkins, doubles (27), corpse lights or candles, scrats,
sprites,
fates,
fiends,
white women,
fairies
(29),
thrummy-caps
nevins
(28),
22. "
Know
you fhe
nixies,
gay and
fair
sybils, nick(30),
They lurk
in sedgy waters."
Keirjlitley.
'
Brown
INfan of the
Moor."
Eichard-
25.
An
excellent
Northumberland ghost
story.
'^
26.
The works
of
p. Gl.
From
Sketches.
to him,
according
to the
above
28.
Mother witches.
29. Fairy
Fairy Stone,
is
Thrummy
met with
near
This stone.
in the
'15.
Fairy
tales of
The name
Northumberland.
of this sprite
is
80
cutties
and
(31),
iiisses,
form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village
in
Enodand
that
had not
its
own
peculiar ghost.
Nay, every
bogle,
its
Every green
lane had
its
with
it.
who had
And
were
cross-roads,
all
The
haunted.
belonging to
its
and
churchyards,
its
circle of fairies
met
1848, p. 849.]
31.
peculiar to Scotland,
Tliev are
who
not altogether
named by Burns,
in his inimitable
poem Tam-o'-Shanter.
as localized in Somersetshire.
IX.
A
iiucl
white."
Shakespeare.
Where
No more
fairies
Vervain and
and bee-bikes.
dill,
If
You may
Much
ride your
thro'
ony town.
about a pitch,
Quoth the
Much
nag
ilevil to
the witch.
tlio
version.
But
Woe
to the lad,
WTthout a rowan
Some
readinors crive
witcli-wife
"
tree gad.
and an
evil,
VOL.
II.
witcli.
Scots
82
Hey -how
When
for Hallow-e'en,
all
tout
a tout tout
green,
Cummer goe
ye before,
cummer goe
at
on their aerial
Avlien
"
ye,
let
North Berwick,
in Lothian,
me.f
words of a song
who
daunce or
reel,
all
joined hands
one voice.
Witchy, witchy,
Four
defy thee
fingers round
my thumb,
in Teesdale
some
sixty or seventy
years ago.
Black-luggie, lammer-bead,
Rowan
tree,
made
of staves,
* This
t
is
to their speed.
know
[A
not.
Cummer.
gossip, a
young
girl.
small
as
wooden
handle.]
POPULAR PvHYMES,
Lainmcr-bead
still
worn by
83
RELATING TO FAIRIES.
ETC.,
coruption of amber-bead.
Sucli
beads are
tooth-aclie.
witchwood, qnickbane
rowan-
\_i.e.
alive
or ran-tree
also called
window,
to act as a
So
also
Keep
brade
o' \Yitches,
fair
red threed,
i.e.,
charm
Rowan
Ye
this],
placed visibly in
in keeping witches
we have
of
the
and boggleboes
the devils
fra' their
speed.
Waghorn
Falser than
than the
devil.
Ins'ratitude
o
is
To milk
the tether
To carry
tether.
off the
{i.e..
the cow-tie).
prevalent in Scotland
in
Eynt
* To this
list
may
be added Hicken.
g2
84
THE
They that burn von
Xever
DE>s'IIA3I
TRACTS.
o' Avitches.
Friday
is
To hug
Laughs
like a pixy
Langliing
184G,
As
As
As
As
p.
{i.e. fairy).
like
pixies.
Devonshire
ju'overb,
Aihenauj/ij
1092.
black
as
(*;
cross as
sinful as
Four
fingers
Waters locked
^^^^^
wi
a
'^
^>
ugly as
Waters locked
I defy thee
Borram
The cry
Borram!!
of the
Borrani'.I!
after
Irish fairies,
!!!
So many gipsies
The
To
so
many
smiths.
live in the
A Welsh fairy
saying.
j-
also
of
the
So
God grant
in your shoes
and
place, as
Fairies
Its
comb
going on
A pixy
it
had
for
beintr exhausted.
many
It
bung
Topsham
it
ale in
until a curious
On
and a barrel of
their cellar
a secret.
would
aj^pear,
had ceased
'^
Its
at
it
full
were offended,
to flow"
Topsham
of cobwebs
for
but the
to the inquiry
i.e., it
how any
affair
perously.
To laugh
like
Buzz! Buzz
i.e..,
very cunning.
Robin Goodfellow. t
!!
Buzz!!!
if
a person
waved
his
life
of another,
And
if
we may
hee-fayrie, a
86
the old laAY and lawmakers considered the person so saying and
was
a far
from God as
my
nails are
from
dirt.
nails.
my
All
losses
Wednesday
is
tlie
door.
till
yon.
own
i.e.,
One
of the
Faw
blood.
weep.
gang.
Faw
gang.
species of gipsies.
It is
Egypt, with
Little
whom James
Mary saw
not
-Sharp's
To laugh
He
Chron. Mir.
caps Bogie.
Amplified to
He
caps Bogie, bogie capt Ptedcap, and Redcap capt Old Nick.
To be hag
See Telfer's
'*
Witches of Birtley
87
Xiglitmare.
London.
spirit or
hag
1850.
of the night.
An
sayino;
Irish
deuce or
devil.
parallel
Has got
into Lob's
That
is
Pinch
'
To
Keightley's Fcdvy
pounl [or p
})lay
the
Mijtltolofnj.
vn-l].
Ibid.
like a fairy.
legs,
A
The
severe
or somerset
fall
Pigwiggan
fairy
is
is
so
celebrated
by Drayton
his
in
JSymj? India.
To be
The
fairy struck.
paralysis
is,
c^Wed. Fairy
Mythology.
There never has been
lost his
ground.
Manx
fairy saying.
Popular Rhymes
To be pixey
'^
When
misses his
tells
etc.,
of the Isle of
Man,
Man
ii.
p.
148
pp. 16-17.
led.
man
lie
pixies."
See
Fairy Mytholofjy,
p.
300.
THE DEXHA3:
88
The
Tit ACTS.
fairies lanthoni.
That
the
is
God speed
When
glowworm.
you, gentlemen.
the road, he raises his hat and breathes forth the above blessing
in
to
have caused
ao-e at
Said
when
And
me
through
on the bumblekites.
a
I'll
S]3oilt
is
he believes
it.
Hid.
whom
fairies
my gad
a collop.
end.
end of the
Xow
We
in old okes.
the pixeys
"STork is
done,
remember
schoolboy, I have
passing through a
'* Nutting Days "
boy^s calendar
that on
1092.]
wood
p.
my
coat inside
out
good people.
in
On
in the school-
p.
POPULAR RHYMES,
[Children
call witches,
when played
in
Scotland
ETC.,
RELATING TO FAIRIES.
blacken
They
also
by
not so
then
readily Struck
spitting
saying,
''
89
Paddy (Paddock)
pit
ye oot."]
X.
"
New
Yeai-,
]\Ionday."
it \Yill
afterwards.
As dark
as a
of Christmas.
Yule midnight.
That
''
as
''
Yule
Yule
a pack of
I02:
A green
Yule makes
good
to cry
Yule
Christmas
i.e.
in the
West Riding
stool,
in.
a fat kirk-yard.
!
fule.
in place
stide,
was brouodit
is
same thing
beer
of
"fnlc."
of Y^orkshlre
when
PROVERBIAL RHYMES AND SAYINGS FOR CHRISTMAS.
As many mince
months yon
A trite
^vill
pies
as
von taste
at
liare.
land
hospitality.
There
is
extreme
for their
setshire,
91
give
made by
Cliavitij
the rector to
vindy Christmas
As
In
This distribution
is
is
regularly
a sign of a
p.
108.
good year.
allusion
to the
extreme poverty.
Christmas log.
It is
spoken of one in
loo\
hence Laidlaw^s
" 'Twas
fine lines
when
And Martinmas
fa'in,
birch-wood in winter,
of dark twigs,
is
extremely bare.]
A
i.e. J
Yule
feast
may
be quit at Pasche,
a Christmas feast
may
or,
Shakespeare
Busy
eve.
Cold as Christmas.
" one
92
and an egg
kiss at Christmas
They talk
Yule
of
at Easter.
it
comes.
is
A light
She simpers
One
like a
frummetty kettle
at Christmas.
!N'ow's
The year
lasts longer
The day
Is
good
of St.
than Yule.
commencement
This too
fat swine.
is
divine,
and killing
It
is
likewise
Christmas which
first
tlie
anciently
Mary
still
''
exists
called
rino-ino-
practice
'
at
liinging in Christmas."
this
festival,
hence
tlie
A custom,
of considerable
may
on
this day.
While speaking of
as
well
here observe
antiquity
still
exists
at
It
bell-
that
Dewsbury,
PEOVERBIAL RHYMES AND SAYINGS FOR CHRISTMAS.
ringing the great
Yorkshire, which
consists in
church
on Christmas eve.
at midnio-ht
The bell is
The moral
when
Christ
This knell
of
deed
i.
p.
in
shillings
the
called the
manner of
many
Collect. Topograph.^
Queen Elizabeth
fortieth of
it is
167.
the
of the
bell
is
was born.
in
tolled
93
the
sum
of
by
five
The money
is
still
Thomas's day
St.
x\nd Christmas
Maidens
And
An
is
is
most acome.
arise,
Bobby some.
And
Though when
it
comes
it
a year,
brings go jJ
clicer,
a year.
And when
it
But when
it's
comes
gone
it
never
it's
tlie
near.
i'ule
to
bear
ed., p. 44.
THE DENHAM TRACT?.
94
meet companion
He
wlio
marries between
tlie
syckle and
scythe,
tlje
will
never
thrive.
Perhaps the
Latter
month
in
which
celebrate their
to
holds
our
at
The former
present
the
moment.
On
day on a ]\[onday
If Christmas
fall,
Yule
Yule
Y^de
Yule
all.
of Y'ork and
crj
Yule
years ago, a
fifty
Durham, on
common
on a ponderous pe^vter
sw^eetened
rum
sauce
it
but wdiat
dish, floating, as
!
typify I have
The command
were, in a pule of
it
ci'ack nuts
to
may
be
carol,
call
Anon, yon'l
see
them
in the hall,
made
our northern
after service
cliurclies
See
Glosso-
692.
p.
Hogmanay,
Give
95
trollolaj;
some
lis
of
Hagmena, Hagmena
Gi^'e us bread
And
and cheese,
us away.
let
chansons than
proverbs.
named
Marjazine^ vol.
it,
Ix. p.
See
Gentleman's
499.
The eve of
this
day
is
Oh dirty December:
But Christmas remember
I
Yule
is
And
When
Could
When
feet
and legs
At Christmas
UC)
Martinmas
is
To
Wooler, Northumberland.
Yule
is
And we
So Jack must
And Jenny
The following
of the
of
Hichmondj
in
To-night
as
it is
the
New
and
in
com. Ebor
to her wheal.
Hagmena Song,
is gojae,
for
is
the day.
our ray,
Hagman
me
good
heigh
bit
maw
That me and
my
If
That me and
my
heigh
it
merry men
These two words are omitted in the copy taken down from
recitation of old
Hagman
master Craves,
ih.Q
tl
a ponderous piece of
si
hangs upon a
dish- clout
Be she maid
let
or be she nane,
*^* Permit
me
to
song
would chime
at the
Hagnian heigh
to
commencement
Then gang
And
it
pin,
us in
If she
to sing this
97
your aumbrie
fetch us here
if
of another year.
two
I fancy
you please,
And
we'll
That me and
feet in length
two parts.
met with
often to be
fully carved,
the construction.
first
and various other items of still higher value, as implied in the text.
They are now generally devoted to the purpose of holding flour and
bread meaL
for
haver cakes.
is
time.
In the
" poore of
in the hall
will of
VOL.
II.
See
my
first,
pp. 1,2.
98
meaning
its
tlie
'^
merrie men/'
early songs
first
The ^Yord
On
them
x\.nd everycli of
scarlet
it
is
word
evidently
The
silver.
a good mantell
and of raye.
observe that
the
in party-coloured stripes.
Of
may
verse, I
woven
a term of
is
Robin Hood.
Hagmena Song
in
Mr. Wright's
Yf Christmas day on
the Saterday
Hyt
alle
falle,
That hyt
man and
beste
And
Whate woman
And
many
on.
Tho dyest
154
last
stanza of a Christmas
[Excerpit
century.
Harl.^
song of the
No.
2252,
r.]
New
MS.
from
happy
New
i^eav
Handsel Monday
Praise
And
Year's Tide.
and a merry
(or jovial)
Handsel Monday.
in tlie
New
peer,
is
the
first
Monday
New
Year.
Year.
New
99
If betokenetli
If west,
If north,
If
If
be
Yol.
xii. p.
On
the
^'
Superstitions,"
night in January
first
they
etc.,
obserYe
is
The
The
The
The
of the
may
with
be thus translated
anxious
signs
communicates:
fertility.
fish.
At New
Year's tide.
is
a cock's stride.
knows the
truth of wdiat he
lintel
of the door
falls
at tw^elve o'clock,
At Ncy^
its
and
so
is
called
sun at the
'^
a cock's
IT
XI.
Thirty
cIp.ys
April, June,
hath September,
and Xovember,
And
all
And
2.
And
Daily Companion.
3.
The
rest
Xovember
have thiitie-and-one,
it is
p. GO.
RHYMES IN CONXECTION WITH THE
4.
3I0^'THS
OF THE YEAR.
And
al]
5.
And
But
all
in the leape
Days twenty-eight
in second
And
is
month
appear,
Partial Variations.
7.
Except
in leap year, at
which time,
8.
And
9.
in four,
Except
in
February alone.
And
To
Divide by
you
iv,
what's
0, for
past
i,
ii,
and
iii,
Harris.
101
102
Rhyme whereby
to remember ox
And
the merry
New Year
Sunday.
Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thursday.
Friday.
is
Saturday.
Born on
Born
Born
Born
Born
Born
And
fair of face
for wealth,
Tuesday
for health,
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday for
And
all
for crosses,
losses,
Saturday no luck at
all.
Tuesday
Sunday's brother,
is
is
is
no other
Wednesday
carries the
Thursday I won't
And
on Friday
week away
spin,
I'll
never begin.
XII.
CHARMS.
Reyelatiox, or Charact.
words or
letters,
''
ii.
Vol.
is
nature."'
p. 424.
whereupon buildeth
and vaine
and no
so
must
lesse all
also,
by consequent, be
their use,
and helpe,
sorts
of Ignorant and
KngUmd.
London,
4to.
1612, p. 50.
The
sale of
common
thing in England;
it
ao^o,
a not un-
The wholesale
usao;e
in all
is
still
also in
which countries, be
Romish Church
exists in its
Sprinted charms and incantations against Satan and his host, and
104
and are
in great
Borrow's Bihle
demand.
in
Spain.
that he
met
with charms of this cLass not only on the persons of the lower
chisses,
it
were con-
iii.
manu
tracts in
scripta
is
copied verb,
et
lit.
vulvar creed.
A
^^
"
Charm.
was found
coppy of
in
y^ Leter ^vriten
a valey
Christ.
it
ye town of
to
MDCLXix.
this
named
far
command of Jesus
Red Stone Large it
CriSt which
a great
morning
and
that
Turneth
IMacconaby
me
over y^
which
people
was
that
It
found
Saw
in
y*^
Stone
writen
and
it
and when
God That
thay might and of that Same writing and thear came a Litle
Child betw^ixt S'x and Seven years of age which ye
it
Same Stone
turned over ther was found a Leter writen whith Golden Leters
by
the very
to
Jesundry
to
be red in the
Town
this
be longing to y^ Lady
CHARMS.
Pencelbeo in
MDCIII. which
An
commandment was
Day
Command
holy
Shall
and
go
shall
it
zealously
Endevour and
and
your Sins
my commandments
fifthly
you Shall
my own
hands you
keep
is
to
Labour
to forgive all
fliithfully
you go
that
with
fourthly
me
Earnestly desire
you
you Shall
firSt
partially defaced]
that
foloweth
as
shall
of
command
written by je
JeSus ChriStt
105
to the
my
my command-
ments you Shal Live with brotherlye Love you Shal Leave
Shall
brance]
fast
of the
five
five
my
wounds
in
at
y^
o'clock
five
munday
at
ememrance
Received
Li
morning
[remem-
for
days
nighte
untell
words
nor
my
doings
and
will
give
mannyfold blesings and Long Life unto your Cattle and your
Land
and
shall
danse of
all
I will comfort
Cursed
be and not blesed and thear Cattell Shall be cursed and unfruite-
full
I will send
againSt this
with uiy
my
own
liand
Spoken with
my mouth
it
with given to the poor and will not Shall be cursed and not
blessed of
me
in ye Conclution of theas
knoweth
to
106
Seventh
keep
it
my Self ReSted
if
me and
in ye
tliis
Letter and
Sky
to
it
this Letter
he Sinned of then
if
[qy. often]
own hand
but go
again
as thare
him again
believe theas
with his
If
my Commandments
is
Stars
you do not
I send unto
him wormes which will d'Sstroy you and your children and 3'our
Goods or what So ever you hath more over if any writ a copy
of this Leter and keep
hantt him
coppy of
If
it
Avithin his
Avith child if
this
Judgement
all
of this Letter
shall
She hath a
me
untell
ye day of
is
kept.
In nomina patris et
filius et spirit as
sanctas.
" Amen/^
Waldron
in
his
description
of the
Isle of
Man names
which
Manxmen
assert to
the
XIII.
RHYMES
AN])
liiinters
It is not the yalue of the fox, but the pleasure of the chase that
Than
Dnjden.
Chapter
Foxes never
He who
fare better
their
own
holes.
As cunning
I.
for breakfast
as a klyket (fox).
He
Ber.]
finder.
that will
catch J
Hawks
The
don't
s'entle
--j
Xyaria, pikej
hawk mans
herself.
108
Empty hands
High
flying
in
hawking.
lure no hawks.
hawks
are
good
for princes.
Baj.
at a hunting.
You
all.
He
you
hare.
To
Where we
We
is
it (i.e.
eat it).
We
cripple
Varia
1.
2.
calf's
Dog
If
on a cow
A
A
Perseverance
kills the
head
game.
will feed a
huntsman and
his hounds.
you had not aimed at the partridge you had not missed the
snijie.
* There
is
tradition in
inhabiting Britain who, destitute of dogs, trained fuxes and wild cats
for the chase.
J.
H.
is
killed another
EHYMES,
War,
ETC.,
hnntliig,
bnek of the
full
100
of troubles as pleasures.
Lead.
ox.
Plutarch.
CHArTER
If
But
barber's
hand
will
it
IT.
fear.
Dog-draw, stable-stand,
Back-bear, bloody-hand.
man whom
had power
He
Let him
to
tiy^
XIV.
fairies,
account
for,
for
many
obligations to
&
it
to
their
Co.), vol. 2,
My
me
told
little
p. 42.
see
non
elves
mo."
Chaucer.
and
1.
Fairy Shppers.
12.
Elf Shots.
2.
Fairy Stones.
13.
Fairy Cakes.
3.
Fairy Butter.
14.
Fairy Javelins.
4.
Fairy Pipes.
15.
Fairy Ketlles.
5.
Fairy Cups.
16.
Fairy Loaves.
6.
Fairy Caldrons.
17.
Fairy ^Mushrooms.
7.
Fairy Wells.
18. Elf
8.
Fairy
19.
9.
Fairy Rings.
10.
Fairy Money.
11.
Elf Locks.
22.
Hills.
Arrows.
Puck
Fists.
Fairy Fingers.
elves,
Ill
112
They
and
are also
met with
Dane
The Lnck
Eden Hall
of
Danish
forts,
pipe;:;,
where thej
is
This name
is
the
localities of
pipes.
are called
5.
in Scotland,
immediate
in Ireland, in the
workmanship of Elves.
See an account of a
6.
Ant. of the
Surrey,
co.
The
7.
well near
iii.
This vessel
Eden
is
by an old
hill
native
of
Bishopton,
co.
9.
of extraordinary size,
is
fairy's caldron in
306.
mythology,
when daunc-
By moonshine do
bites;
Found
10.
" This
and
is
treasure.
fairy-gold, boy,
to be so still requires
"His
11.
of
Age.
kembing."
Wifs
By Thomas Lodge.
author describes
'twill
it
prove
so.
also Massinger's
want
and
iv. sc.
and
Winter's Tale.
See
1.
full of
Miserie,
4to.
or,
nsck."
12.
The heads
Ireland
wear
them about
They occur
flint,
in
abund-
about an
their necks
set
in silver,
as
an amulet
is
consists in
also a disease in
horned
name, which
this
first
complaint
known by
cattle
an over-distension of the
113
The
it.
is
elf-shot or arrow.
A disease
13.
was so
stition
14. Local
called.
The same
number
as
18.
The same
19.
20.
The purging
number
was
Durham.
6.
fairy-faces.
fairy-stools.
12.
of
species of agaric.
as
fairy javelin
county
Also known as
tlie
Linum
catJiarficum.
lint,
21.
The
word
is
fairy-folks-glove.
My
has no reference to
friend,
foxesglofe,
and
fairies."
bears
4to.
25.
26.
The
ignis fatuus
was anciently
called elf-fire.
An
old tract
of Purgatorie," etc.
London, 1625.
in the
Isle of
It
Man
wliich
was a stone
27.
called
28.
Mushrooms.
29.
of the
also
Romans.
VOL.
II.
is
the
small brown
beetle.
114
31, 32.
means
33.
Engh^nd.
35.
36.
37.
38.
p.
39.
40.
A local
name
There
18, I believe.
f.
is
23.
218.
41.
kind of fungus.
manes
of horses.
43. Toadstools.
44. Certain
13.
marks on women
-with child, or
women
that do give
suck.
Dark,
in the
129.
common
Puck-needle
corn weed
" is the
[In Hampshire,
so-called in Sussex.
is
name given
to
See
The wood-louse.
is
Iluolef,
1552,
part
p.
i.
6.
Pobvn
[This
a species of Oniscus.]
50.
The same,
51.
52.
The glow-worm.
1533-4.
[Lampyris noctiluca.]
summer's eve
fairies
took delight in
bend
of
In
name
this
circumstance
of faiiT-pools.
Il5
55.
species of stone-hatchet.
56. This
grand annual
festival occurred
57.
58.
The
59.
Wednesday
60.
paralysis
is,
is
changeling.
on the
first
day
of
May,
the
fairies'
Sabbatli or holiday.
little,
backward of their
XV.
NORTH OF ENGLAND FOLKLORE.
ILLUSlTvATIOXS OF
Michael Scott.
Long
somewhat varied
him
mitted of
The following
Minstrel.
are
what
on the northern
Walter Scott
Sir
Lay
of the Last
from Michael
I once obtained
Hexham
address
my
call
man
in the
magician
the
him
]\Iitchell
North ambrians
The
district.
Similar
in the telling,
had
Scott
devil's back,
w^ere half
way
ningly asked him what the good wives in Scotland said in the
and
flee
"
rose.
If he
had
replied,
" God
bless
" Mount,
us
a'
this
beat
devil
and
employing them
well-known device of
is
myrmidons by
the
his
to the incohesivc
117
it is
in those
dark
acres
some
Roman
"
A\^atling
mind
human
Street
in
many
places
it
is
England
of
night.'^ *
other
called
is
one
comfort or
occupy them
made
it
in
Roman works
to
Cunninghamhead,
may
in
Ayrshire.
be commemorated in
'^
it
"the
wrote
devil
me
that he
built the
He was
also consulted as
possible
Scot's Corner,
Denham
He
Mr.
||
in print that
in a fortnight."
an engineer
to
streets,
to the
general
Of
this
Nimmo's
\ Blair's
Ramhling
llecollections, p. 118.
118
we have an
Rambles
in
book, Chatto's
little
laro;ely
at a place called
whose fame
as a wizard
whom
and
to the eastward,
Tradition reports
not confined to
is
the
spells,
was
to
if the
tide
chance of
and the
liavino^ the
sea.
Michael intended
Wear
were
be can-ied into
immethe
lost
their
town
to confer a
Durham by making
the
effect in
the
same manner,
Avere also
guide the
"
tide.'
i\Iichael
Scott,"
decessor Merlin,
to
"
says
fell at last
Sir
AV alter
Scott,
"like his
pre-
His wife, or
concubine, elicited from him the secret that his art could ward
off
the flesh of a
breme sow.
qualities of broth
made
of
who
died
in
consequence of eating
it,
(Note 2
umbrian statement
is
to
La
>j
of Last Minstrel.)
The North-
o-ives a
reverse
was more
poirjonous than
tlie
119
nothing
by preparing
him
for
of the
dish
deleterious
article,
of
Growing deadly sick, he suspected her infidelity, and ascertaining what she had done, he
made inquiry of what had become of the " broo," or water in
which it w^as cooked, for this was the only remedy to counteract
the poison.
The wife had thrown it out, but being shown the
which
place
he
heartily partook.
where
made by
this
He
and put
fire-hot
''
with
that
of
equally well
is
liis
known
wonder-working
in North-
countryman
Michael Scott, but I could not recover any more of his savings than a
rhymed
couplet of
his
prophetic utterances
"
/
The author of
Cheviot, a
seer
Fragment, by R. W.,
one of
which includes
its
Then came
the
to
Which never
as
seats
side,
120
hell.
Damp
Stay
is
not known.
air,
yet
seiz'd,
Thomas
" mountain
spirit/'
''
This rock
It
it is
side,
said,
is
looking
from the
it,
also
cir-
with his
burden of cloth too near the edge, when the pack slipped over,
and
its
belt tightening
man and
round
his
to a robber
The
off a stolen
It is thus peculiarly
:
To guard
his
Where Cimbrian
* Cheviot, by R.
W.,
Poetical
f Pringle's
edited by
Works,
p.
XVI.
Under
his
a grassy s^Yell,
Houxds
which
Legend of Beinkburx.
may know by
a stranger
Brinkbrtrn
is
the
its
outside of
a subterraneous
manner denied
in like
is
it
is
who had
in
some way
offended one of the priors was along with his hounds, by the
aid of enchantment,
condemned
mysterious
abode.
to perpetual
slumber in that
entombed
one day
felt
alive.
listlessly
who
sauntering on this
discovered a
by man
flat
are there
aside he
of
its
own accord on
Actuated by curi-
number of
122
from darkness
transition
abrujDt
him of
deprived
gradually recovering he
beheld
some minutes
light for
to
power of observing
the
enough
him with
strike
to
on
his
distance another figure reclined on the floor with his head lying
them
him
lay
many
to all
to
all
the
to his
lij)s
to
sound
it
was
all
examine, and
stepped forward to
it
fatal
chamber of enchantment.
applied
On
but the
shepherd
-quiet, the
taking up
horn
the
no longer.
him he replaced
Reassured, he
own
doo', as if ao-itated
the
door.
noise behind
he
made
lifts
it,
restless
it^
first
whom
hunter^ on
him very
like the
turned round and found to his dismay that the door was moving
to.
by
his dog.
He had
half-
when, shaking the vault with the crash, the door shut behind
him, and a terrible voice assailed his ears pouring maledictions
aperture above.
He
steps,
but
succeeded^
and that was all, in escaping perhaps a worse fate than those
but his
victims of monkish thraldom which he had just left
;
to
through
it
it
its
fore-
and nipped
it
123
many
modes of
which
telling
We
it
localities to
it,
recognise
in the banished
it
Eoman
brethren, in
(2)
habits, lying
in
foreign
seven
the
in
profound slumber in
in a
Germany
of
(3)
whom herdsmen
federacy,
(5)
Bero^
in
Thurino^ia,
in
Untersberg,
place
the
tradition
tales of
of
accordino-
or,
Salsburg
but
(6),
and
(7)
as
told
to
another
to
Britain,
(1) Plutarch.
alihiis;
great
the
the
of
number
peopled
of
the
was charmed
lib.
has
it
in
latter
Cave"
hardiun,
and
379th
the
in
the
legend
the
in
leo^end,
in
him
betwixt
vacillates
chieftain
in the Kylfhauser
Western Empires
huntsmen.
^'
in
vaults
Transferred
Spectator.
mountain
the
near
Emperor Charles Y.
tomb of Bosencreutz,
the
sleep in
the
who
till
Danske, enchanted
call
burgh
Con-
in
i.
c.
(2) Gihl)on.
4
Bomce^ 1555,
his
vrith
i.
c. 3.
at
and Denmark,
(4) Mrs.
Hemans' Worhs^
ii.
p.
G5
Nor-
Table Booh,
124
adjuncts
the
tress (9),
of
Monk
being imaginary.
early
by the
spells of Sir
Thomas
Halbert Kerr,
to aid
to
with
return
who
difficulty to free
hills (12).
him
The
be approached
rna}^
here, as well as
the
host,
asleep under
lies
o'er
.sleeps a
each helmed
knight,
crest,
And
Girt
^vitli
Say,
who
is
he, ^Yith
high,
And
ii.
pp.
747-750.
James Hall,
p.
(9)
84
Widdrinrjton,
Alnwick, 1827.
Tale
(3 0)
"
!
of Hedgley Moor, by
For more on
and
Foil-lore, pp.
written in
lands,
18G4
iv. p.
85.
p.
357.
Popular Tales of
the
West High-
On
Sewixg.-iiield?.
tliis
125
be sufficient, but
without the
complete
pp. 37-46,
ii.
and
corresponding native
lies
this
might be tliought
tlie
between the
the
of
versions
it.
the military
road, near the twenty- eighth mile stone from Newcastle, and at
the western extremity of AVarden
Castle,
low,
"
lumpy mass of
by
^A^all
was
It." *
seven
the basaltic
still
remained.
This
cliffs,
Roman
built.
castle referred to
Is tlie
Harold
canto of
sixth
in
Its site is
south
Of Sewingshields
Parish.
the
In reference to
shields."
Bruce remarks, |
^'
by
Sir
Walter Scoit
in the
Dr.
condition
present
"
moss,^ which
is
now
it
"
'
the
removed, but
the
following
t Wallet-Booh of
% Ibid.
the
Boman
Wall,
p. 100.
ii.
vol. Hi.
126
queen Guenever,
were enclianted
and
in
and
ladles,
hounds,
liis
below
crao-s, or in a hall
till
first
'
hall,
'
it.
downwards through
and
a rush of briars
entrance into
fell
till
sitting
and ran
he supposed,
nettles, as
was
its
The
floor
wings of
bats,
fcarfidly
around him.
strengthened
lizards
l)y
grew gradually
At length
flitted
sinking
courage was
he advanced
brighter,
at
till
his
fire
without
fuel,
from
monarch and
all
and
fretted roof,
and
tlie
his
On
the floor,
beyond
the fire,
and on a
garter.
and
the
table before
it
as he
drew
it
monarch and
leisurely
He
ctit
all
up
from
his courtiers
lifted
till
spell
its
began
asstimed
its
'
On
wliich
tliis
evil
witless
127
day
cut,
'
" Of
Some
is
say
to give
occurred.
it
But
his
agree that
all
among
many
workmen employed
days
in searching for
it,
making any
altogether, without
The version of
this
South Northumberland
discoveries of
moment.
circumstantial, but
less
its
verity
is
it
he
felt
that
it
and
|)ursuiiig the
by
a ball of
which
patli
it
devious passages,
of,
by miners
appeared
in their
perforce constrained to
explorations of
As he approached
to lose itself.
strange
follow the
conductor
After passing
interior.
its
An
broad flashes
immense
to the
fire
on the
blazed
ii.
vol.
iii.
p.
287
128
Over
chamber.
was placed
it
made
Two hounds
as
if
on an extensive
pre-
scale.
of unbroken slumber.
apartment was a
in the
huge cauldron,
for a feast
table,
cloth.
At
of a
dignified mien,
as
it
of
life,
and a sword.
At
sat,
reflect that
he had
now
than
to life
ever,
had
horn.
*'
tlie
started
told the
more
up on
his elbow,"
stao^orered
their ears,
and raising
hind that
if
to death
He, how-
and
lift
the
from
dio^-
tlio
company,
it
might
be,
of maliguant phantoms,
wdio were only tempting him to his ruin, became too urgent
to be resisted,
to
On
his return
Thus
failed another
of Britain
from the
rocky chamber he
appointed hour.
^'
still
charmed
sleep of ages."
sleeps on,
as
tradition
King
Within
tells, till
his
the
BORDER SKETCHES OF FOLKLORE.
Of
sings
the
'^
Castle of the
129
The
Whoever
From
curfew
till
toad,
Avithin,
of heart
waxes old
So dauntless
As
chambers
champion
so bold,
shall
And
the
flint cliffs
rye.
fly,
'"'
One more
Some
w^itli
arrano-ino; her
'
his queen,
back
hair.'
seized a rock
liim,
blow
fell
the stone
Harold
It
comb upon
it,
it
JDaunfless,
made
canto
iv.
the subject of a
lies
off the
to this
very
the
at her,
it
dexterity caught
King
tons.' " f
"
makes the hero of the adventure a sort of Rip van AVinkle. Metrical
Legends of Northumberland Alnwick, 1834, 8vo., pp. 124, 130.
,
Wallet-Booh of
VOL.
II.
the
Roman Wall,
THE DEXIIAM
liiO
Xr.ACTS.
the
front
of the
seat
many-sided
on
King
others
shaft,
that
cliflp
was
Ethel's
'
chair.
It
was a
Maiden Well
by some
its
'
had
wall
the
called
On
till
variety
recently in
kin/r
and viewed
sat
for,
his
armv
fio^htino;
it
iu
the
occupied a kindred
theme
recently
Chair.
offered
''
uniherland,
Flodden
the
to
passing
so melancholy,
stranger's
gaze the
It is," or rather
"a
ii.
Hill,
p.
471),
his
now
till
King's
quarried away.
of this
own and
This
is
There
is
also in the
Lammer-
is
The
BORDER SKETCHES OF FOLKLORE.
moors
But on
East Lothian.
of
prosaic to insist.
''
It lias
king- sate
Which
been
'*
subject
this
married
131
to
would be
it
immortal verse":
"
?
Biirun.
In South Africa
it is
me
will
offer
a})plause,
me
it
my
for
shall
sit,
sits at
ease
you
mine."
seat,
thou
slialt
sit
its
on the rock,
OKing."*
may
On K}le
called
farm
hills.
The
hill
Suid Chattan, or
of
South
Suidh Bldain, or
Britannia^
is
an ancient judgment-
seat of the
seats
it
Garrachtle
(both
Blane"s Seat.J
St.
will be
being in
If
we
is
hill
on tho
is
called
Bute)
consult
Camden's
numerous.
* Good Words, 1862,
p.
2S4.
p.
and Ireland,
4G8.
X Wilson's Guide
to
Botliesau, p. 133.
k2
Eothesay, 1848.
132
Durham.
offers
Durham under
to
They journeyed
till
ford
to
follen,
it
was much
fell,
and
some
the care of
at length,
monks.
them,
to secure
belief,
means
from the
the
to
monks
to recover
determined not
Durham
to be
to request the
disaster.
and
lo
full
attendance to liberate
the superior
one
for they
were
in
his
the bells of
Ilisiorij
Still
at
a saying in
Durham
assures
to the cathedral
is
it
cf Xortlaajiherland,
to every-
lifted
of high
abilities
bells
prior,
baffled,
ecclesiastics
so they returned
bells
;"
us
on
and
that
tiie
Walter White,
were
lost is still to
seen
[Coquet] (13);
the river"
in
positive that
''
133
is
was found
hill
Of
behs, William
the
Places,
p.
;g.,
Howitt, in his
" The
Visit
bell
to
ReinarhaUe
uj)on the Bell Pool, a very deep part of the Coquet, lying con-
cealed beneath the thick foliage of the native trees that jut out
were thrown
lofty,
in a time of
danger in order
to place
them beyond
It is still a fayourite
amuse-
ment among
of the
neighbourhood
to dive
when
young swimmers
the
it is
them."
of"
myths.
Thus
Lincoln, and
w^as transported to
is
there (15).
still
popular
Coldingham Abbey
It
was a
Tweed
to
opposite Kelso, in
Another
"
across.
Hexham, and
tradition
fitted
up
is
to
that
were
they
carried
off
Of the
shire,
bells of the
it is
The
was
Bell
lost in its
of
p. 140.
Hunter's
p.
290.
to
Jedburgh,
p. 15.
(1.5)
Coldingham
Fiillarton's
Gazetteer of Scotland,
Priorij, p. 75.
i.
p. 233.
134
used
preach
to
There
It
centuries'.
hung a
was dumb
it
It was
to the old
subsequentlyremoved
to another saint,
the tree on
which
where
it
it
had
a tradition
rang of
Many
to
be
all
till
original
and favourite
hung
in the
The
sunset.
after withered
their
away
new
''(19).
positions.
to
When
situation,
its
till
accord
week
the
own
its
it
sunrise
till
so long
tied
where
bell in a tree,
They required
Murce
that St.
at a place
remained for
is
removed from
a bell Avas
it
its
to
stood
who would
embosomed
its
situation, so densely
this
imprudence
(21).
Brinkburn.
This
parish kirk of
Hounam,
in Roxburghshire, fell
in
it
to
bell of the
consequence
remedy
was
when
insufferable,
and
as
W.
in statu
This
" There
these beings.
is
is
troll,
in
'
Ploasant
Were
it
bells
sort
of Scandinavian fairv.
is
it
tlie
hill
true to
135
f)und a
bell.'
very dis-
troll sittino;
Well
'
melancholy tone,
'
am
going
oft'
'
'
Ah
'
said he,
cannot \i\q here any longer, they keep such eternal ringing and
dinging! '"(23).
Hid Treasure.
In the South of Scotland
'^
is
it
is
con-
rhyme
is
'
(I think
^'
:
came down
to
(2-4).
be a money-finder,
can remember of a
money
search
in Berwickshire."
(23) Keightley's
p. 2-40.
136
The following
example of the
cabin
in the
"
You know
east
is
a loose stone,
covered over with grey moss, just two feet below the
of which the hanging rowan tree grows
you
will find
a duke.
and
Xeither
let
out
cleft
lips
till
It is to
But
own
Arab
for being
lost
under an infatuation
labour to
they would
brother.
that brother
them
would be
it
had sworn
AVady Moussa
know
it.
have dug
for
it,
there
and
these
fictions of the
if believers in
expostulate with
exploded
is
it
if
treasure in the
mean
to
dig for
it
again (26).
Fairies.
The
Re^'.
John Horsley
JVortJiumherland,
late
to
gathered
1729-30,
be
much worn
stories of fairies
seem now
This
is^
An
old
man
once said
to
me
was not
a solitary
standing amid
its
hawthorn
tree
circuit of fine
away out on
when
there
the green
hills,
p. 90.
137
encirclino-
its
The
Northumbrian
numerous
fairies,
little
as they were^
woman had
few simple
me.
to
voracious enough,
''
but put
meat
the
all
It
was
got within an
it
ill
skin,"
that
was
it
a changeling.
One day
into
siglit
come
and
my
o^
made
sti'aightw^ay
its
exit
a neighbour
Come
''
field at
Humshaugh, near
be haunted by the
fairies.
ye'll see a
Waes me
what'U
up the chimney.
Avith a
the
"
and
here,
alowe."
a'
came running
boy
to o^uide
them, in
tillino;
While
one of the
at
'^
land ends"
He
made another
circuit,
and
listening,
was aware of
do?"
''
Give
it
to
me, and
I'll
my
mend
a doleful voice
kirn-staflP,
it,'*
a
to
what
cries the
will
good-
and
nails.
He
another turn
liberal
carefully repaired
he came back
to
and
left it,
the spot
it
He and
when
hammer
after makino-
down
all
in its place.
share, except one ox, wdiieli resisted every effort to force the
food upon
it.
brute dropped
the
down
same manner
dead.
in Berwickshire.
138
requiring
Jabez
Allies,
also
c.
1.
1085.
p.
would be
left it at
liable to
to the field
when
the
little
in
the
inmate
To
with the
''
sto(d\S,
fairv butter
were tempted
storv
"
Of
them.
is
it
was customary
touch and
to
ftiiry
that baits of
the fairies
it
fifty or sixty
they
if
would kidnap
work rather
eat
butter," Mr.
now some
them
to tell
''
earlier one
morning than
much
usual,
as nearly a
pound upon the top of a gate post, how they carefully gathered
It into a basin, and how they each and all partook, and found
it
to
be the
fairy
one of
alono'
ony
o^
them had
iver taasted.'
''
with
re2;ularlv to
his
'
it
rub
own with
its
it,
eyes, but he
was
to be careful not to
touch
woman moving
could bo nc
any inconvenience.
about
harm
in
it
he accosted them.
Surprised to be thus
told
A
man
office
to a
sufferer
^'
in
the
139
An
a healthy child.
in a box,
woman was
any of
it
but
happened
draw her
to
In-
sio-ht,
and
innnediately her eyes were opened and she saw that she was not
in a cottage at
all,
her.
all
that
the
to
among
the
with
whom
all
Sub-
it.
crowd
the
from
stall to stall
and purloining
bits of butter
and other
edibles.
She addressed them and asked them their reasons for these pro" Which eye do you see us with ? '' asked they.
ceedings.
'^
Of
were blinded.
this
variations.
At
ring,
the
'^
was a famous
fairy
number
less
for
the
away by
fairies
to
the parents
to
It
fairies.
than nine.
lay
when
These three
last
incidents
were
told
who
me by Mr.
Gr.
afterwards gave
B.
a
140
]iis
fatlier, vol.
iii.
p.
Having misprinted
])roper authorities.
suppose
to
pronounced
''
that
in
the
Northumberland
{Fairy Mytliologij^
farry."
word
^'ftiiries"
as
avIio
p.
'^
was
fairy "
310, note.)
in the Courts of
was recognised
farye "
as
to
''
the
for
its
which required
disease
Catherine Fenwick,
saith
''
Wyddrington had a
childe seke,
said Blackberd
byd the
And upon
hir.
childe's
same
the
this
this
liir,
and
the said Pereson wyfe said that the child was taken wnth the
and bad
farye,
hir
water, and theis 2 shull not speke by the waye, and that the
child shuld be
washed
morowe
health
it
in
that water
upon a hedge
shirt in the
that night,
and that on
all
deponent paid
she knoweth
to
said.
And
this
is
Robert
" Dicit that he herd
a w^ytche or not."
lieled hir
mother,
with
3d. of
Edmond Thompson
matter.'* *
141
for a like
accounted a peculiar
is
disease,
heart, apply
body
but
it
Again we are
if
to the
told,
"The
older works,
it
is
hanged about
and
falling sicknesse,
Reign
to the
(Surtees Society,
of Elizabeth.
i.
lb.,
483.
p.
and
to
aid dentition
lib. vi.).
being
" This
Simpl. Medic,
and
that
belief
tie
prevent convul-
to
plant
is
the
neck
as
''
a preservative
i.e.
p. 21.
against the
v'^9
cure
Galen,
for
epilepsy
amulet
and
tlie
this
MatthioU Commentarii
'
them
old
like
keep
will
in Libros
See also
Yenetiis, 1570.
vogue
Commentary on Dioscorides
in
is
the
still
round
suspended
]\latthiolus in his
Folklore Record,
Folkfore, in
illusions practised
Hist.,
also
London, 1574.
p. 47.
Sussex
also
p. 44, tliis
sions
See
popular belief
Plants, book
is
iii.
Lovell
(Herball, p. 334)
says
of pa^ony, " It
heals such as are thought to be bewitcht, allaid with rue, fennel, and
dill-waters."
142
Ill
(a cinquefoil)
is
reckoned equally
"
instance.
Avitton,
who
many
gamboling in the
On
fairies
home and
telling
was
five-
efficacious.
a pail
fields,
reaching
"
an
head, saw
Chatto furnishes
]\Ir.
returning
invisible to
her.
Many
although
(a quadrifoil),
upon her
persons
supposed
to
possess
the power of seeing fairies, even though the elves should wish
to be invisible
spirits
character evil
by charms.
Among
He makes
'^
tlu'ec leaves of
the tootli-ache
i.
sta}^,
fonr-leavM grass,
repass, or pass."
The weise
is
of
dell,
but
to
have
local
and cavern,
a circular pad,
commonly made
were supposed
of Alnwick^
far
others
of an old stocking,
gi'ass, to
of the pail.
in the
143
heiieatli tlio
of other lonely places, to hold their revels with music and dance
of Clavport Bank.
in
favourite haunt
Xew Town,
near
'
And
thrice
to
Their
Chillingham
sound of
to the
Stane
^vind again,
''
elfin
last
Old
Aln\Yick, the tanners, had faith in the good folk, and set aside
for
them
'
them enter
away
into
as the
On
Harehope
green
hill
Hill,
and heard
me
soil,
The
name
of the
''
which had
Fairy Steps."
be interred in Brink-
iv.
p.
145.)
iii.
p.
48
On Fawdon
at
Cockenheugh range,
the bleak
tlieir
caused bv subsidences of
obtained the
the
music die
Hill,
their pipe
out to
the
as well as the
diversion.
" Even
in
our
still
still
brown heathy-backed
testify
by
their
stretch
names
to
144
many
out as having formerly been the chief resorts of the elfin people.
Tweed from
north, a
the
little
into the
falls
locality, so also
and the gravelly beds of both are remarkable for a kind of small
stones of a rounded or spiral form, as if produced from the action
of a lathe, called
Fairy cups
'
cretions seofregated
from
'
and
fine clay.
'
dishes.'
the
locality
is
The
itself
On
by
called
perforations,
country
likewise
are
indentations
Similar
the
people
many
curious
fairy
kerns.'
'
'
train
'
was accus-
tomed
to
at the
Dowcrai.il Top,
At
Otterburne."
meadow once
Borcovicus,
Housesteads,
the fairies
a mile
north of
station of
for their
occu])ied
To
moonlight dances."^
marks of
fire
and
soot,
W.
the
is
S. Gibson's
''
which gave
The
pillars
rise to the
which
long retained
popular belief
Memoir on Northumberland,
that this
their kitchen."
'^
There were
on the borders
."square
to receive the
left in it for
which were
by the agents of
A number
was employed
his answers,
" fairy
once a
145
'
spirited
away
'
in the
same manner
his friends." f
of
among
that
all
most desolate
among
grey craggy
declivities,
boulders,
is
little
of everv evenino- to
twilio-ht
''
Eelin's
of a roe, and
who
to find their
has told the story of the fairies of Eothley Mill, in the parish of
Leg. Div.,
vol.
p.
i.
acknowledgment
325, vol.
and from
iii.
this
vol.
ii.
to
p.
i.
p. 48, the
latter
secondary source
traits of the
by James Telfer,"
in the
to
title
it
appears in
of " Ainsel."
f:\iries
Soman Wall,
of
without any
Northumbrian
412.
\
both
in
VOL.
305)
ii.
pp.
p. 145.
ii.
vol.
iii.
pp. 411-
146
130-138.
is
after the
manner
of
of the
tion
found a crowd of
unfortunately
has
degrada-
imitators.
to
bounty
may
away, as
money
Bamborough Castle
the lucky, where money is found,
Those who participate
by the fairies.
is
if it
is
have
it
placed
among
there, but he
had always
it
it
visit
to secure
it, it
would
slip
to
add
to
it
a piece of
genuine
An
old
man
in
still
the draught.
The
flexure
many
fields,
repeti-
was
is
the fairies,
that
who
it
]nit
hillocks
their
They were
147
'^
Tweed's
deep,"
after dark," without seeing the
the weils in the Coble Holes." *
''
An
dancing round
''
fiiiries
fairies
broad and
river,
fair
MS.
I find in the
of William
when he was
young man.
It
was written
1837, and
in
old,
"
Turnbull,
who
My
He
Mary (Mary
occasionally
Thomas was
'
at
Peace be here
till
Thomas Turnbull,
When
used to shout,
passing
in
bye.'
to
and
if
he caught
the oftence.
was the
collector of tolls at
Yetholm.
this.
He had
Their father
occasion to visit
came upon
in green jackets
sunny brae
to the
right
* "
sore
Yet
At
this sio-ht
astonished,'
and
startled
and curvetted in
Among
L 2
Telver. 2o a
Fairij.
THE DEXHAM
148
sucli a
manner
as to
endanger
rider.
its
Thomas Turnbull,
were
obeying
it,
emergency
tins
all
his might,
lie
Peace be here
'
The
so
In
till
Til ACTS.
their
sport
that
fiiiries
"
fairies
lot or
they lived
among
almost vanished.
The banks
tor}" to
fairies
he
of the
Ale
of
In the
frequently
the
last resort
and
on
the
Pyper Knowes."
broom-clad
side of the
silence
the banks
^'
they used to
knowe,
to
them
all
beauti-
in the
most
strains."
it
down
in an extensive
morass called
MSS.
''
G8.
Ileiitlersoii's
In one of
Mr
Henderson's
Popular
PJiijmes
of Bcrwick^ldre^ pp.
BORDER SKETCHES OF FCLKLORE.
149
Knowes, were
in
footed fairies.
The
fairies
on the
fine
Blackadder.
resembling a road,
steep track,
Cockburnspath,
is
still
was wont
and
to drive in
six."
this,
from
visible to mortals,
still
It
Up
Road.
to a
A retired
overgrown
hollow,
summer with
in
ferns,
near
known
The
white-flowered
which grows
women
first
to
" Fairy
cathartieum,
Lint."
called
is
It
this
name
The foxglove
its
purging
by the shepherds in
[As
distaffs.
was the
made
to
explain that
{Digitalis purpurea)
foxesclife,
advanced
in
it
great delicacy."]
has in
its
name no
con-
it.
flax,
or
is
make known
Bor., p. 15.
Limim
in natural pastures,
Berwickshire
fairy
is
tall
popularly
is
The
foxesclofe, foxesglofe,
false
etymology was, I
Landsborough's Arran,
p.
144-
is
foxesglove
believe, first
accepted by Dr.
by popular
writers.
150
When
I ^yas a
flat
to
its
foot,
it
as
she
mermaid with
"
;
captor,
whoever he
was.
indurated a character,
viz.
Footmarks cut
the chisel.
in rocks,
"
R.N.,
On Dunadd,
Argyleshire
place
of
the
Glassary,
instances cited
it is
1878-9, pp.
in
human
foot,
of small size,
This
is
called
(p. 39).
is
'
"
lies
by
upon
In two
]\Ir.
Glenesk,
of a
281-7.
fairies.
the
Jervise
the side of
Lord
near
it
the figure
'
fairy's
footmark
'
"
course
of
agricultural
found,
two
tons'
representation of a
chieftain
self,
human
foot.
as a
tomb
for
him-
"
by
Avliicli
38, on the
451
vol v
Of an example of
''Fairy
"
151
p. 249).
Knowe," popularly
so called, at
on being opened
a tumulus,
be
to
obtained
notice,
in
appeared
to
was found
off
contained a stone
mented with
human
the
clay slate
removed
to consist
cist
it
lattice
mostly of
formed of sand-
urn.
rudely orna-
few
bones.
flint knife,
It
it
stone slabs,
lines,
Till
fragments
artistically
of
chipped
both
fairy coys
appeared.
"
Where
Hao done
wi' fairies
and bee-bykes
is still
at
Wooler.
Hence
is
They express a
it
is
situated in a
rise
secret
narrow hollow
is
among
now
152
spirit
of the spring,
to be the
and
but
Xor do
it.
old
tlie
tion
genuine name
its
Maiden Well."
It is
is
into
''
said
is
''
in
departure
Walter
old people
tlie
cried
by
left
the
weakly
and cheese
a piece of bread
to
such applications
as
child,
and before
an offering.
TaleofTamlane,
Sir
refers
upon the top of Minchmuir, a mountain in Peeblescalled the Cheese Well, " because, anciently, those who
to a spring
shire,
passed that
an offering
fairies
themselves
tells
such
it
it
a piece of cheese as
was consecrated."
ablutions.
The
Fletcher, in his
us of
A virtuous well,
The nimble-footed
By
whom
practised
Faithful Shepherdess
"
throw into
to
to the fiiiries to
fairies
From
make them
free
Mr. George Tate, in a notice of the Wooler Pin Well, menhaving heard that a procession was formed to visit the
tions
well on the
morning of Ma^'day.
This
so,
but
There
is
the
Edinburgh
is
Stancmoor
Durham
vol.
the
Maiden
Castle, an
of Koriltumherland,
iii.
p.
136.
153
was natural
It
that those
who went
May-dew should
Madron
to gather
youug
"
on a
girls desirous of
Two pieces
May morning
by groups of
visited
is
be married.
to
number of years
day.*'
wliich
The practice
arrival of the
if
expected to throw in
visitor is
The
^^
Worm
happy
"Well" at Lambton^
^'
co.
see
more recent
it
was
in
and superstitions
still
'
Midsummer Eve.
of
wishers
may sometimes
')
bottom of
its
basin." t
is
amongst
others, the
When
the curse
is to
name from
p.
295.
154
Mr.
^'
Thomas
at
when
miicli
HIghlaws,
Arkle,
my
received from
Morpeth,
an
friend
account of
'
hitlierto unnoticed.
In
tlic
Midgey Ha', on
a steep
which
Darden,
called
liill
is
side the
to a considerable length,
On
the southern or
is
sizes, scattered
all
is
a perpendicular
is
o;'
rociv
power of
clacial action.
''
Such
is
Sunday
neio-hbourhood.
resort of the
At
little
in
Keyheugh, which,
olden
young people
times
the
resident in the
main
precipice
is
or, as
my
informant,
wdio had visited the place in his youthfid days, expressed himself,
the
'
fulfilment
of wishes
silently
breathed
over
the
magic
fountain."
in the district to
had healing
Some
of
60-87, refers to
dcr-ired.
saints
155
in the parish
Gnnnerton
on
votaries to
same
its
has
Fell,
drawn
long time
for
numerous
healing waters.
to
else-
Wark,
visitant
was wont
straw.
to cast in as
Sunday afternoons
ments from the
to be present
in
in
summer, and
village,
which
sulphur.
On
the
till
is,
for pilgrimage
to
is
Sunday following
on the spot."
is
New Year
at
about
the 4tli
Midsummer
day of July,"
day, according to
the old style, great crowds of people used to assemble here from
all
described to
me
summer
The neighbouring
solstice.
formed
slopes
and
seats
One
pray
sufficient,
visitors.
informed, to
it
filled
am
and
within
number of
the
twelve months
visitors,
this last
Sunday
Bore Well."
Well Sunday."
very considerable
assembled even
at the
Midsummer
or the
Holy Wells, on
the
156
parts, in
from
memory
Avitli
leaping,
Warwick
slew, once
Within Mr.
to
Gilsland
called the
dreds,
by
tremendous dragon,
whom Guy
wdien
Day
AV^ells
was
that
of
if
rail,
w^ell.
availabe,
''
it.
all
Hun-
directions
and by vehicles or on
foot
otherwise."
St.
Ninian
at
many
Mary's Well
at
Jesmond
at
that
also famous,
garments attached
late
as
1740
it
at
in
dipping.
the
At
Venerable Bede,
St.
Benton was
called
trees
the
well
Brand's time,
to
])'m
and
of
''
as
bring children
was put
in,
and
Twenty children
Avaters.
ii.
Pop. Antiq.^
In
p. 54).
p.
i.
157
383
(note),
and
Picture of Newcastle
tlie
it
is
sports,"
remember
to
in expectation
Quite recently
iliccarton Junction of a
man from
at
Holy
bv an eje-witness
told
AYell.
for
which I
refer
Roman
in
part
propitiatory,
from other
and he inquires
have been
illustrations
his paper
to
Eoman
and
Wall,
connected
may
not
wdth well-
worship.
to
Wooler, there are several projecting rocky eminences of sandstone overlooking the valley, where
in the
lie.
Several of
it
may
be so
still,
Hazelrigg Dunnie.
Dunnie
is
spirit, called
the
158
reiver of olden time
who hoarded
his
On
and
He was
vengeance.
Hazelrigg " to
to
chiefly
lie
and
caught
his horse
(as
is
somewhat akin
to those of the
when
ploughman has
fitting care,
the
field
he will be horror-stricken
already beheld
afiir
off,
According
Dunnie
and
see the
finished
to be
His
since.
he thinks) in the
in
Hedley Cow.
o'
him.
kill
sacrificed to their
it
his
(as
name
to other accounts
He
also
was
alert
when
the mid-
her
broucrht
"Dun"
in
is
dim form
At other times
his
This
is
My
friend Mr.
W.
B.
enough
if
they only
to me from Hetton
"The other day, on
Boyd, writing
1860, says,
knew how.
Is oil
on the
Ijiit
the
rhyjiie.
J
I'oad
the
think,
further
little
Belford
t(j
is
ii
Oj^^o.-^itc
side of
the
])0ssiljly
].j9
tlie niur(!li, is
of
*oIli(.'r-heuuh
aloiiii;
crai^ called
They
contraction.
lie
more
coming
to
Hazelrigg, Mr. B. pointed out the steepest part, and said that
when he
an airing
to(jk
at night.
to
hang over
it
his legs,
attributed
it
X(ji'tli
cd'
On
to Duinn'e.
a careful exann'nation
it
Kamsay
in
some
^'
verses,
Spoken
was perto})
of the
^olus,
in the house
kow."
" Say, wliereforo
makes thou
In dead of night
To
liech
I got
was
resting,
of the district
whom
tracts,
kow
Wow
"
'
I
within view of
'
mentioned; the
Denham's
like a
cpiestioned.
but I replace
it
was known
It
all
to
to
me
the places
an old
man
In the notes to
Thomas
appropriate place.
bound
to cite, that
it
may
be preserved in
160
Mr. Wilson
Fellj
and
their
speaking of the
lias l)een
^vItclles
tliose
of Gateshead
of Newcastle,
the
Low
Xell
Going
Fell."
to the
pit
meet "
to
One of
we had on
Awd
Xell and
Cuddy's swine,"
"
made
Twee varry
workmen " on
the
far fra
the
sonsy things,"
was none
of the best.
" The highly -gifted race of ' witches,' " says Mr. "Wilson,
" seems rapidly tending toward extinction.
There are here
to
creatures
many
name.
I have
known one
of these poor
serious
mischiefs
is
I
;
very
am aware
but
how
that she
far these
ill-
them, for she was neither deformed nor ugly, nor did I ever
recognise her frisking about in any other shape than her own-
woman.
event that had taken place for some miles round the place
Page
74.
161
slie lived.
all
came again/
she called
as
after
it,
what
shape they were in (for they did not always appear in their
o^vn),
to speak,
what
it
said
was
when they
that brought
priest or
'
uncanny
folk,'
it
or
such
had
as
bad
all
and had
een,'
Dick the Deevil,' who frequently rode over the Black Fell
his
work upon
that
the
description of the
Pelton), given
me
land^ induces
by
Pelton Brag
it
it
is
As
possible that he
it
stock.
It
when ho was
their habits,
from one
mounted
laughin',^ as
many to
j^lace
the
might
(for
Gar-
it
The
'
common
to
'
the
had arrived
QXQYi Dick,
VOL.
Dick would
test,
say.
would run
He had
at a suitable
place for
II.
at parting,
off,
'
the crea-
nickerin'
and
him whenever he
depositing
a favourite, and
when
who
his
load
in the
not
end was
THE DEXHAM TRACTS.
162
Dick, how-
would be
an
received
others,
laid,
as Dick, vdio
injury.
who had
soft fall.""^
my own
Culley, of
am
indebted to Mrs.
additional
particulars.
''
as
Hazelrio-a
Dunny
"
said to be that of
is
in.
Cockenheugh
He
had, according to
neighbjurhood of
In Cocken heugii
But
there's mair,
I'm ruined
Bowden Doors,
for evermair."
Bowden Doors
Var,
"
"
For
is
tracts of
key
o'
the
Bowden Doors."
Hans Anderson,
^^
Pitman's Fay,
p. 75, note.
misers stand
their
money
A
he
is
haunt of the
f'avoui'ite
even said
to
pay a
few words as
tion of the
^^
visit
Cuddie's Cove.
to the
163
Heugh
more
older and
"Danny"
a corrup-
is
beautiful
an occasional resting
as
is
Dunnie's credit
told to
that, if
his diocese.
plates
like
be long dirty,
to
tradition
deponeth not.
Apparitions.
it is
said
" Chillingham
monk;
who
Cresswell, a lady
tower; Wallington,
its
till
lately
Dunnie
its
Radiant Boy
Brinkburn, a terrible
its
old
Of
the
boy"
^'radiant
again at Corby
branches of the
Corby
Castle,
to his sister
Howard
family,
had
'^
:
November
8th, 1840^ of
is
redolent
and
(as
without seeing
my
This was
extra-
a long dark gallery of which you could not see the termination,
at the
end
moon streaming
circumstances
in
which
164
profited
There
^'
of P. F. Tytler,
is
to the cross
man on
this
kind
arm and
his
said to be
is
a dun-coloured horse.
is
300.
p.
said to be seen."
remember
also
from Wooler.
it
right,
Matthew
Rev.
is
Hunibleton people
but
is
Crawley Dean,
coming back
July, 1728,
in
his
is
They
to
when
9:
p.
going
to
Mr. Punshon
apparition.
at Piercebridge, in
this
Adam
who
Crisp,
my
London and
told
On
me
that
the 4tli of
]\Ir.
^'
in the
said to have
in forty-eight hours.
eel.,
was fought
never killed."
(1729-30), says,
apparition there.
me
battle
is
told
lived at
Culley, writes
it
were
to its
so
haunted and
former place."
"the ruins of
ghost of such
habitable."
terrific
1st
Sandy Bank,
character as to have
is
attributed to a
rendered
it
unin-
165
spirit of
the
''
Big House," on
wont
in former
When
an old
It is
its
eyening
its
crash on
the
Many
ceiling.
When
to dry.
it
the
a ''gliff''
folk
got;
but
No
*
the
drawn by black
There
MS.
Brecham
shire.
"
its
lived then in
''
Ramsay's Lane,
way
to the
churchyard.
Brechams or Brigbams,
He was
He was
had
as a dyer,
as he
in
John
supposed, from his dialect, to be from Aberdeena great 'peaferer, often complaining of little to do
My
on
for dyeing
yellow.
is
horses,
knew anything
father
heard
it
And
first
for
made
instance,' said
she,
this
'
remark
there's
our Johnnie,
a kale-worm.' "
This pair
may have
now
when he came
he's as canty as
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
166
It
was buried
suicide,
at the
ghost,
(\\^alby's)
was contrived by a person who wished to get possession of a " big house," called Lark Hall, near Burrowdon,
notoriety,
The
dancing
off the
shelf
on
plates
to the floor.
The country
There are
Nortlmmherland^
ii.,
full
folks
used
news of the
to flock
droll ])vo-
this reference to
it
is
traditionary.
Andrew
castle,
Bates,
who was
from 1689
to
curate of
1710, was
living
1763.
St.
John's Church,
much employed
I
remember
his
son,
Ulric
New-
in exorcising
failed.
NewCredat
White
The White Lady was
fountain.
Ladies.
frighten people.
to
The White
is
Lady
near
is
haunted by a
Whittingham,
to
in
167
Lee
at the
the
to
or Lea-side.
The well goes by the name of the Lady Well or Lady^s Well.
'^ The Legend
of the White Lady of Blenkinsopp " is told in
Richardson^s
Tahle BooJc,
Leg.
Div.,
iii.
144-148
pp.
(by
was frequented by
am
Matthew
and I give
Culley,
"According
to
who
she
appeared, tradition
is,
is
it
letter is
(Coupland)
at
it is
as
my own
^uncanny' a reputa-
many
&c.,
and
several papers
believed
New
first
Coupland had
Within
has at present.
is
White Lady.'
silent; but
His
"As
indebted to Rev.
words.
to a tradition,
gloomy apartment,
in his
it
to
the
died there.
at
me
who
contributed
London, and
it
was
Zealand.
I Perhaps
well of this
cattle
drank at
On Wooler Common
it.
description cahed
''
The
ISTeatherd's
there was a
Well," a neatherd
168
room and
in
years the
seen on
rooms
is
of Jean Gordon.
its
On
stole
broke out
branching
ill-
deed
culprit
the
to
The towns-
stall.
to the
country
mill-dam,
folks,
which
she
was next
to
mill-lead
on her
down
laid
of
them had
was drawn
out,
When
all
be-
who was
to
she
One
died.
''
Old
Wilham Bolam,"
in the
of the
King
at
Carlisle.
is
Till
169
day, whenever a
tins
experienced at the
Jean Gordon,"
o'
town
little
'^
at
That's a
or,
o'
Jean
This
festing a predilection to
of a female dressed in
name
make
silk.
it
itself
Many
visible in
a time,
its
mani-
the semblance
when any
of the
more timorous of the community had a night journey to perform, have they unawares and invisibly been dogged by this
spectral tormentor, who, at the dreariest part of the road, the
most
suitable
for
thrilling
surprises,
would suddenly
break
would unexpectedly
in her silks."
dissolve
the
amazement.
resort.
Heddon, she
with trees, under the gloomy umbrage of which, ''like one for-
170
wander
engaged
twilight, as if
many
all
Here
often
2:)easant
'^
hewing with
And
awake,
at once, excited
all
whom
so various conjectures
resistless
concussion or
were
while
bend.
''
The bottom of
this
crag
sweeping
scene.
Amid
a rude chair,
sit
its
is
is
washed by
wind-rocked enjoying
in her
moody moments,
Spirit-like fitfulness,
Castle,
to
it
ascended with
to
Belsay
to the
Sir Charles
It is
M. L. Monck,
due
Bart.,
so consecrated
in
to
of
the
preserved.
visitant,
it
its
by
its
aerial
time-hallowed canopy
when
its
the
leafless
boughs, the
soul
ancient fay
" Silky's
memory
seatj" in
of
its
It still
171
bears the
name
of
more sharp-sighted
at least are
in the dark,
were in an extra-
seems
to
She
have had a perverse pleasure in arresting these poor
misfortune occurred,
this
could devise
were
whim
to
make
and kicking
proper direction.
her
there
exerted in vain to
all
When
revoke the
wood (mountain
ash),
One
efficacy.
poor wight, a farm servant, was once the selected victim of her
He had
frolics.
and
it
was
to
go
to a colliery at
some distance
for coals,
late in the
Silky
''
that place
and Stamfordham.
And
have continued
the
morning
quaking,
light
fate.
its
mantle of pro-
his person.
On
driver rallied his scattered senses, and the helpless animals being
had the
home
and
in safety.
and
Ever afterwards, however.
172
as long as
spell-proof,
at his
that
Sometimes she
installed
herself in the office of that old familiar Lar, Brownie, but with
characteristic misdirection, in a
manner
And
here
may
it
be remarked,
qualities.
first
As
movements.
is
surprises
and
daydawn.
houses,
at night, or
(1),
her works
If the
is
especially
unforeseen
were performed
moral
hankering for
to last, a latent
its
may
after
practice
of
their
doing,
have a comfortable
if
left in
to
On
the
everything would
At
whom
It
she disquieted
She abruptly
attention to those
who had
was
the
troubled
to the
Western Islands,
p. 171.
liad not
in her
still
173
About
uncouth
falling
from
it
it,
The
With
ceiling!"
this terrible
''
The
a considerable
courage to face
time
''
elapsed
the
whom
her
and
to
go and inspect
who happened to be
the room, when instead
more heard or
spirit
laid
on the
accomplished
this
form
before
sufficiently black
at the idea of
a visible
in
enemy," or be prevailed
At
deevil's in
and
The servant
floor.
and
with
filled
Her
seen.
she
c/old.
now
floor,
After
destiny was
sleeps with
her
Another informant
was
days..
at the
this sketch
house wherein
this
occurred
the place, whose descendants are yet the proprietors, and who,
it is
said,
acquired a considerable
sum from
puted to
many
other pi-osperous
men
Stephen Cochran, of
Wm.
Cock-
174
sum
in freeinor
of
money
(it
was
''
and
to labour
sweet
life
both"
(3).
Some
AVe are
(2).
by an old authority
told
points of folklore
may
arms across
man
with that a
to be content
is
and
hath
flourish
is
them
aboye
be here illustrated.
waterfalls,
this
been the
earl, to liaye
and
charcre of witchcraft,
Trees that
by main-
it
would appear,
fit
roosting places
their malpractices.
"
sings
James
''
Where
Lay
slant,
tree,"
Scott,
oak
moon
Lowran
sister of
of witchcraft
bosom
Among
(2) Mitchell
and
Dickie's
Philosophij
Paisley, 1839.
(3) Ecclesiasticus,
c. xl. v,
18.
"
;
of Witchcraft,
j).
386.
175
and there has been heard amid the darkness " plitch platching
as
it
^ye^e o'
some hnndreds
eiiy nicker, as
the upper linn
some hundreds
o'
''^
An
(4).
o'
man
old
in
the
fall
Hole
"The
(6).
frae
Sewjd yr Rhyd
a road
runs between
the
they appeared
The celebrated
(o).
or Puck^s
cam
fall
a'
a queer
particularly at that of
when
sic
creatures laughin'
Cwm
in
the stream
i'
is
Russians
fail
of the Liffey,
named Pool-a-Phooka,
believe in a species of
They are of a
beautifid
form, with long green hair; they swing and balance themselves
on the branches of
trees,
edge
''
wring
meads
(7).
is
Oberon attempted
to deter
Huon
For thus
so to rain
on you, to blow,
to hail,
and
to
make such
end."
But
this
ed) B. White
w^as
in
"nothing but
Grimm.
going
to
is
right
ii.
137.
176
ments"
dwarf made
that the
(Devon)
Prior^s
is
valley,
coming
"
Doan
vicar of
tlic
Hound's Pool,
wooded
When
(8).
it
together,'
seemed
was
great
so
wood
the
wind "
(9).
'
were
It is
said
had stood
for
to
pronounce their
fate.
which stripped
rain,
the surroundinoc trees of their leaves and shut the castle urates
stood, there
move
was observed
sides, it
all
to
shake a
pile of grass or
as a spirit-raiment,
Silk,
close
that,
or from
its leaf-like
ment of unhappy
its
and innocence
souls.
"a
move-
spiritual
gown
vol
ii.
p.
of
rolled
silk,
Mr. Campbell, in
his
Highland
p. 8.
p. 157.
* Cowley, as translated, Book of Plants, B. i, says cf
" Their subtle limbs silk, thin as air, arrays,
And
Tales,
spirit;
177
Skibo Castle, was one day favoured with a sight of the Baiishie
" She was sitting on a stone, quiet, and beautlof the lake.
green
ftdly dressed in a
silk dress,
Among
the
drumming demon
it
^^
;
also
was
in silk.*'
The mansion
annoyed with
and
if
anyone went
to
open
it,
except on
and
satins
Newcastle,
near
female
clad
whatever
it
in
was
regularly
is
rustling
that
silks,
set
'"'
and the
was embodied
(12).
as
dov>^n
spirit
Denton Hall,
haunted
or
by
goblin
a
or
familiarly
betrayed by a rival
sister,
disaster to those
Duke
of Argyle, while
residing
315.
VOL.
II.
silk
at
" (13).
" The
Chirton (near
p. 73.
iii.
178
who
ckided she had been murdered, her spirit ever after took
nocturnal ramble, dressed in brown
that leads to Shields
seems
have retired
to
silk, in
its
She
is
also said to
have
She
is
a famous
is
markable ghost
old nurse,
At Allanbank
in Scotland,
""
and
Pearlin'
my
my
In
'
(or
endued with
youth," says
when
terror
ghost,
a child.
Our
a servant at Allanbank,
and often beard her rustling in silks up and dow^n stairs and
She never saw her, but her husband did.
alono- the passages.
She was a Frenchwoman, whom the first proprietor of Allanbank, then Mr. Stuart, met with at Paris, during his tour to
finish his education as a
Some
gentleman.
Scotland
suddenly recalled to
into
his carriage,
the
at
unexpectedly made
her
by
his
door of the
appearance,
parents,
hotel,
and,
stepping
on
when
his
on
Dido
the
he ordered the
and one of the wheels going over her forehead killed her.
In the dusky autumnal evening, when Mr. Stuart drove under
the arched gateway of Allanbank, he perceived Pearlin' Jean
lady
fell,
sittino-
(14) ^Mackenzie's
N ortTivmherland
ii.
p.
456.
179
at
silks
Nm-se Jenny
and passages.
called in at
one time
The picture
good/
said there
'
of the ghost
the lover and his lady, and kept her comparatively quiet
she
to
me
told
that
embrace
to
in the
some
his
orchard at Allanbank.
Jenny
when
considerable
way
last,
vanished
as
and
in
he
and prea
fright; but
Many
years after
this,
Allanbank
it
off.
was then
and behold
lo
it
1790, two
True
tlie first
a light-coloured dress at
open arms
sently
The
Pearlin,
(jf
Nurse Jenny
lover (I
but
ever.
I think the
house
bed-chamber.
'^
(15).
We
it
to that
it
silk,
as
an
article of dress,
was
N 2
Ywenec.
so
We
Ladies
180
wore
not
silk
till
the reign of
James
T.,
in
general use.
England, that
Madam
"
it
was
came
into
but
it
wore
honour that
The
waved
tabby or
II.
silk.
entirely in favour of
plaint that
French
set
com-
silk,
revenue
to the
apprehended that
bability half the
if
looms in
pro-
down, and
" In the good old
heyday of youth, a
all
Irving,
^'
silk."
that
saw
my
aunt in the
man
If a gentle-
''
(17).
invitinor
winning
O Nancy
Hence
to
wilt
the
such a rustling of
cottage,
inquire
(17)
in
accents
No
181
Scotland,
" wear
the
or
of
claithes
time
of
of Charles
men
the
James
upper
In 1621
II.
Prohibitory
1429,
extend
edicts
1673,
to
was statuted
it
down
"
?
were privileged
alone
classes
silk."
I.,
scene,
'^
in
made
upon
their cloathes
roses,
and
was
felt
1750 presumed
to
lass
And
except silk
without pearling or
silk garters
wear a
silk
talk,
gown
became general.
this innovation
country
made
toties quotles.''^
"
in the countrej.
It thus
from
reign
That no servants,
the
to
when
(18).
"
:
My
skin
it is
grey,
as soft
On
azure ground
venture
Xorthumberland.
As
to
we
learn
from
the
ii.
northwards
into
Spectator^
July
p. 55.
182
rapidly
vinces.
tlie
as
^'
makes
fashion
Cumberland than
into Cornu^alL
degrees
pro-
the
into
much
progress
its
slower into
at
we know,
least
reign of William
111.,
This at
to see."
in the
like a Scottish
damsel two hundred years before her, paid the penalty oi her
folly.
"
My
God
For
"
kirtill
Weill
lacit
gif I
fadit
is
my
Weil]
cherisliit baith
was vonng
y.B.
In
Naturalists'
stititions at
is
said,
years.
yellow hair.
Wlien
For
fadit is
an
my
article
had great
the gait,
steill I off
yellow hair
in
the
Field-Club, for
stait,
Ti-ansoctioiis
1S61,
Stamfordham,^^ by the
p.
93,
of
on ''Local Super-
liev. J. F.
Bigge, M.A.,
was
once
attending
woman
told
for
old
Tyneside
the
Dean
if
it
some
named
they
reservoirs.
exist,
The
seen Silky the night before, sitting at the bottom of her bed,
dressed in
silk.^^
The Gray
''
^NIan
183
of Bellister.
and
lioary.'*
Coleridge.
was
It
at
Tyne
crossed the
creasing fast
way towards
Havino-
the castle of
Haltwhistle,
at
about half a
to travel
was
common
Leaving
when he
distance in ad\ance
at the ferry,
little
place,
some
few minutes
tarried for a
He had
to the castle.
descried a travelle]* at
solicitude
in the
which
gave
this idea
rise, in
own
He
therefore quickened
shouted to the
no regard
unknown
lie
and when
sufficiently
near
now approached
lie
his pace,
indivitlual to stop.
The
lad had
for he passed
siu-fa'-e.
An
un-
pleasant sensation of fear cre])t over the youth, which was not a
little
184
uncovered, and his long hair hung behind, white as the frosts
He was wrapt
of winter.
and he appeared
his heeis,
in a long
youth been
bundle under
to carry a small
he did not at
perceive that
first
At
the
when
instant,
to
his
its
castle
still,
across
there
Death had
it
ghastliness imprinted
fore-
The being
fixed
its
melted
It
silently
ruiii
away.
horror.
spell-bound to the spot, gazing into the vacant air that gave.
terrible,
expansion
itself in limitless
all-absorbing gulf
that
seemed
iilto
invite
to
him
roamed
its
home was
idea
was
that of self-preservation.
His new
betook himself.
The
old mistress
The
old lady
herself,
now few
it
the existence
members of
survivors
had maele
Of
a frene-
and there
itself visible to
wei'e
persons
whom
185
said,
on the
came
It
lad
When
by the Blenkinsops,
norial lords,
.says tradition,
its
ma-
wandering minstrel,
its
evening, and the humble request was granted, and the aged
knowing
'*
his tale
all.
"
High placed
He
poured
to lord
The unpremeditated
But
lay."
the hospitable boon had not been long conceded ere dark
He was
to
this
him
Bellister.
Some gentlemen
some revengeful
plot.
of
The Blenkinsops
of Bellister
to
In the
" "
Lord of
at feud with a
By
same
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
186
soon communicated
"
By
fits less
Was
For
On
as squire
Hence
it
for withdrawal
the
game
Lord of
was obeyed.
fears,
])erfidy of his
The image of
still
deadly
He summoned
harper into
perplexing anxieties.
justify his
declined."
his
At length suspense
foe.
his attendants
presence.
experienced
oft
to
bring the
his entertainer, or
Lither he
he was conscious
that
had
to
to
confirm the
conceive.
The
fugitive
ibllowers.
his track,
his
and
earl
the local
title
of yearl,
was
called Countess of
and heiress
Clari;-ill.
married
to a
Dr.
Graham
187
to pieces before
Remorse
for the
hour he took
way
his
Whenever
to
of the hapless
minstrel rose in terror before his eyes, and the visible shape of
the
his fathers,
still
and likewise
frequented
At some
efforts
to
ancient circuit
its
periods
notice
attract
appearances that
was
it
between whose
to the
fate
and
with
spirit
terrific.
pending misfortune
slept
assumed more
it
The baron
that race.
all
own
of some im-
])i*elude
its
dependents,
there
inseparable bond.*
* l^imilarto this
is
tiie
was
oftice
it
"
And
I die
ere to-morroAv
I die
Will
live,
my
cliild, lonLjer
cried,
than I
my
side
"
Smijfh.
According
to Delrio, a spectral
woman
in
mourning
the death
of
its
mistress.
premonished by the
spirit
The Macleans
of one of their
of
attire
was wont
Bohemia previous to
Loch Buy are thus
ancestors.
death of any of his race, the phantom chief gallops along the sea-
castle,
Thus
cries
and lamenta-
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
188
murmurs
responds in sad
Bellister
near which
pathway
the broken
and
The
by
and the
nor traverses
at Bel lister
clnmp of willows
the
rustic passes
is
it
still
But
vicinity continue to be a
its
it
and hurries
till
The dread of an
past.
and nature,
way and
gloomy
the
ruin,
and
midnight
as the
sweep
of the rushing river combines with the moaning breeze and the
jottings of this
which the
artificial
castle
is
Bellister
situated.
Castle
district in
stands on an
Ilotliiemiircus
to
of the Hill
Hand
and
targe,
plaid,
and the
fairy
who
Melusine,
recurrence of mortality to
Lady
of the
usually
Hand (Pennant).
House
of Branden-
prognosticated
of Poitou.
the
Prince, in
Fai)-tj
was
office
Legends,
had
for
p.
the
worshipful
a general
Brand
lineage
of
Oxenham
these
with
commission, whereas the " warning
126).
tamily appurtenance.
identifies
an
irreo-ular
structure,
and
it
now
fosse.
consists
overshadowed
189
of
by
an
It has
been
rude
and
enormous
"George 1568.
At
Bacon family.*
* Mackenzie's Nortliuniherland,
ii.
p.
316.
XVII.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF NORTH OF ENGLAND
FOLKLOIiE.
Legends of Nafferton.
There are two legends about NafFerton
Nafferton
or
Castle,
concerns
Long Lonkin
more recent
structure,
one
to
Nafferton
is
a ghost story of a
murdered
it is
pedlar.
immediately
'Mies
Philip
the erection
of the castle, taking the" materials from the Pioman wall in the
vicinity.
He was
dismantled ruin
it
was
left
still
by the workmen
There was
make one
of a formidable character.
lie
may
liave
At present
been easy
the remains
it
though
it is
probable that
from
leadino;
191
Corbridcre." *
to
am
is
v.dth
^'Ballad
this
Lammikin/' corrupted
As the
local association.
of
acquired a
Long Lonkin,
into
castle never
has
was inhabited,
which
tion
as
it
have
to relate is manifestly
apocryphal in so far
relates to Xaiferton.
relatino: to
man named
from an old
A
the
lord
lady, courted
of Xaflferton,
desirable
One
match.
Lonkin vowed
to
child
blessed
the
whom
London on
to stab
business,
came
in
to
he
It
to proceed to
his
approaching
evening
In order
treacherous maid.
he con-
bitter, for
absence,
Long
had determined
more
marriage.
the
till
The mother
it
cried,
called
down
to the
maid
to
she
till
it
screamed.
would have
to
come
herself.
"
Till yoii
* Hartshorne's
I can't
Memoirs of
still
come down
the
him
ladie,
yoursell."
192
cliihl
poor mother
tlie
mind
Two
home.
at
The
created.
of the hallads
on his
rino-s
tell
on
far
child.
how
alarm was
this
fino-ei-s
Returning
down
all
drawbridcre, and
it
beino;
was not
that all
with
jonrney
his
the
^^dlen Lono-
Lonkin heard the noise of the coach passing over the bridge he
sought means to
esca]:)e
could not get across the moat he fled to a dean below the castle,
in
tree that
a large
in
AYhen the
in the water.
lord
was
ao-encv
it
had been
shoot
among
it
effected.
was not
morning
till
that he
it
to
him
if
This pool,
is
now
then threatened
to
called
bottomless.
from the crags on both sides and had found no bottom, and
was only
Lonkin.
it,
He
him
people declare
it
for the
detected,
was
l)y
great exertions
Some suppose
that
that there
it
is
is
but this
down
There are
*'
it.
Long Lonkin's
tree
was cut
oo-re," as Professor
or
Lammikin,
he
" boiled
is
Lammikin
193
burned
In one
at the stake.
sometimes
it is Buncle
"
Lord Weire's Castle," Lord Wearie's
Castle, Berwickshire,
Castle," the Castle of " Balwearie," '^ Prime Castle," which
'^
wrong
this
New
The
Derwentwater
after
its
fatal catastrophe.
Hall at Naiferton,
was
statement,
It was
" brewed the black revenge " that
he
that
for
(Radcliffe) family,
it,
it
place,
Dilston Hall,
left it for
When
old
this
life,
man was
When
occu-
The
who
1768.
in
re-edification
acquainted with
a time
rampant when a
child
to die, or as preliminaries to
was
any
to
be born,
fatal accident,
or a
Rappings were
customary at
the
Doors
shrieks.
not shut.
would
open
without
to
would
and
cause,
he could,
till
In 1677 Allan
accuracy.
Roman
Soc,
p.
priest,
Catholic recusant
228).
depones
(^Depositions
he
II.
am
from York
Edmond Johnson,
was
received
in
that
slept in
not sure of
Swinburne, of Nafferton,
VOL.
He
gent,
Castle^
Roman
month
its
was a
Surtees
Catholic
at
Mr.
194
an upper room near the " leads." From the door of this room
a stair conducted to the " leads," round which one could walk,
by another door
On
stair-top.
at the
this
many "
As
vating.
if this
or cog turned on
was not
side
its
sufficient,
so aggra-
commenced
rolling
down
the stairs
on the outside, and played " bump " against the door of his
room, as
appeared
if
would smash
it
covered by a hearthstone,
ascertain that no one
the
stair
When
ino^
to pieces.
The noise
"
the
called
inside
Hole."
Priest's
retrcatino; noises
Priest's Hole.
recommenced
Determined
To
he went up
leads,
he returned again
and
it
to
it
shut.
advanc-
to be at the
bottom of
this
annoy-
ance, he called his brother to his assistance there and then, and
Beneath
it
the space of
its
* Skeel, a
''
Roman
this
Catholic persuasion.
Glosm?y.
seat.
Isl.
bow.
was an accu-
if it
generally
there
made
Skiola," a milk-pail.
in place
of a
was nothing
On
hollow
and on removing
this
one sounded as
to dig on.
if coverine:
195
tactics,
This was
upon a
shirt
and a nightcap.
The
shirt
was
all
bloody where
was worn.
when
it
It is needless to
comment on
took so
many
like
it,
^'
after
Tho
tried
the unlike-
by those who
to send
it
like
new linen,
when he
it
had become
burnt tinder."
if
to question
an old
long
The
old
man
occupancy and
its
In
being
man had
hall,
and
fowling season.
pedlar, to
tell of,
lodge
Once on
there,
a time there
came a "pethert," or
was observed
When
were searched
for his
it
girls in their
196
station
with
some
accustomed
" they did little good
But
to carry.
became ruined,"
ming
to wear,
missing
this elevation
man, with a
sum-
satisfied air, in
up.
A well-told
murdered
story of a pedlar
in a lone farmhouse
dying day,
may
be seen in
W.
A. Chatto's Ramhles
oji
the
Thirlestane
discovery.
singular
is
near
situated
Primside
Loch, Yetholm.
1861, writes
exist in
Northumberland.
murdered
the same
in
Poor fellows
Tradition speaks of a
way
Ray
Mill, near
Whelpington.
and
be discovered.
at
packman being
this
money
to deprive
might not
easily
2CVIII.
Oh
make
his
eye,
ne'er descry.
oblivion claims
roll away
Her triumph o'er
Years
And hands
heroic
names
And
may
fired
He mans.
"
What
Gems bedded
"
?
Ihid.
" This
and
is
to be so still requires
and
'twill
prove so
We
"
The
and a
Tale.'''
instruction,
Humboldt.
bulk by a pathway
side,
has
little
to
commend
from
its
itself to the
it
huge mass
198
occupies.
tion
it
To
bourhood,
it
its
neigh-
more than
parent
site
serving as the
emblem
many
that recalls
Besides
a scene of youthful
woven
become
inter-
its
it
may
Perhaps
memorial.
marks, which
it
trophy of some
it
would be sacrilege
old battlefield,
it
it
"
in clanger
perhaps
it is
the
in proportion to the
was
was contested
over the tomb of some ancient
which
remove
to
memorable
chieftain
whose
^'
soul brightened
it
bore a
name "
at
divinities,
which
it
"
or perhaps
it
how^ever,
is
that
mighty
it
men
their posterity,
199
in order that
an accredited belief
It is also
were constrained
to adopt the
that, in the
many
people
Pict, or Saxon,
more pros-
till
perous times should dawn, and they, coming back from long
from the
exile or
battlefield,
property in peace.
or
scenes
native
never gladdened
relinquished wealth
his
bosom more
benefits that
might confer
it
and
his
fields
all
lies
excluded from
it,
medium.
In consequence of such various surmises, while these stones
Mammon,
But
livelier
avarice,
as
fearful bar-
it
to
might
tales asso-
become themes of
human
ingenuity and
all
And
fictions of
is
so
200
proverbial,
that even
the
its
ventures upon
its
practice without
How
then shall
the
and
The usual
this
fact,
dreams
three
its
sympathetic metal,
desires
is
that his
to the
obtained by
set at rest
is
accomplishment of
Out of the
two
may
be selected, in neither of
claim to
entitled to lay
treasure trove.
In a
field
site in
named James
Gillies
filled
with gold.
money
explorations
secrecy."
the
capacity of being
'^
sworn
to deepest
Henoe
it
became
own
it to,
who made no
The
loiterer,
resolved to
make
201
materials
his
Arrived
at the spot,
its
position,
it
its
moulded upon
its
sides, the
impression
suffi-
ciently
ample
after a
money
peculiarity, for
Hogg,
in his Winter
Northumbrian
fields
the
to other authorities)
''
rests
Eeligio loci,"
is
a stone
not to be
resolved to explore
the
mystery that
it
shrouded and
Accordingly,
when
the shades of night had fallen and nature had sunk to repose,
menced
They
liad
and com-
already l)enetrated
202
to a considerable
begun
to
themselves
flatter
oft-repeated
the
that
of
tale
when
all at
He
sound
communicated
had not reached him, he received but a rude banter to reassure
He again resumed the work, when suddenly a repeated
him.
creature
flafPered
all
it
and
in white,
in
off,
like
strange
down
it
swan, that
and hideous
their implements,
farthest carry
him
pristine position
the swains in
its
it
still
vicinity
Fixed in
who have
all
hillside at Chertsey, in
its
representative elsewhere.
Surrey, "
lies
and believe
hid underneath." ^
is
On
cannot
203
from the
to
(as
they have
thought),
other
by
speche
forced
to
their
which
for feare of
all,
Kepars
and some
have forborn
how
to
precede." ^
who assume
who seek
them.
to discover
Several of the
are
employed."
similarly
Tynedale,
is
Hill," from
in
''
Money
treasure 4
It is the
life,
to enrich themselves
in preference to
special
benefit
to success
engaging in a lawful
calling,
have received
Illusory as
Lish Popular
Superstitions, p. 98.
also vol.
J Rev. G. R. Hall in Arch, y^liana, N. S., viii. p. 66
It was opened in 1865, and afforded only a negative
vii. p. 12.
;
result.
204
No
As a maxim
Italians.
undeniable
leaves
that
opulence
easily
it
is
its
He
spends
it
it
freely, so
too.''
whom
in
prosperity,
instead
reward
later
As an
cited,
ao-o,
of
which
will sooner or
illustration of these
faithful witnesses.
farm-steading
a
berland,
the
moderate
livino;
it
this
becomes so moulded
efflux of wealth
By
attained.
to
few miles
period to which
situated
n.
from
we
was
Haltwhistle,
refer
occupied
at
at
about
On
this stone, at
wrapped
crowned
black
in
a grey
bonnets
so
incessantly
cloak,
familiar
knock
to
our
knock
grandmothers
knocking in a
endeavour
to split
impenetrable
the
205
rock.
Duly
as
night came round she occupied her lonely station in the same
lowj crouching attitude, and pursued the dreary obligations of
her destiny
depart.
till
From
which
to
So
man make
neighbouring cottages,
sym-
and though
her pale,
momentary pang of
boldest,
it
ghostly,
terror that
into wdiich he
contracted
gave
in the vortex of
features
good fellowship
hammer^
and
So
so little
toil
An
Two
her
fate.
ino-
maturitv,
when one
of them,
more
reflectino^
and shrewd.
206
lier
avocation, and
was evidently
He
mode
and
this in the
open
efiPectually countervailed.
disappointed, for
explosion
there
was
gold.
a needless errand, and ere her return the whole was efficiently
And
own
counsel,
and
so successfully did
many
their
figure they
knock-
made
their superior
lucky farm.
''
in their
little district
As
Lilly
judgment and
to the
The
^^
Knocker"
a yard long,
who
is
Welsh
indicates to the
* Lives of Lilly
workmen
about half
and Ashmole^
p.
48.
Mr.
J.
also be-
F. Campbell,
tale, I
suspect."
207
Such
also is the
Thus widely
mine." |
from the
beliefs,
far
German
scattered
are
the
pagan
of
relics
back ages.
Far up
ridges of
in the bleak
narrow
tail-
soil,
stripe of
hard by a
fretful rivulet,
in the
bordered by
its
It consists of a
sinMe
circle
is
yards.
there are
many gaps
distant, but
to
the controversies
among
whose
occupy,
undisturbed,
region,
hilly
is
still
plots of corn
many
immaterial
a slope
to
of
still
our present
theme.
It
is
situated
hills
Cyclopean walls on the margin of the burn, near the ruinous circle.
Old peat mosses exist far up on the back of Cunnion, opposite to
Three-stone Burn, excavated not in modern times, out ascribed to the
208
consisted once,
11
of them
tradition
were
and
visible,
was
it
when-
foretold tbat
the
lucky discoverer.
and
missing
pillar,
stones.
Thirteen
lo
is
Druid money
This
come."^
is
however,
fact,
had
prostrate stones
fallen
came
all
the
this
Ground broken by
like
ancient
after the
has
peateries
that
light,
also
Other
Yeavering Bell.
to
from that of
the present domestic cattle found while cutting turf for fuel to the
have sunk to that depth, but the place was dry and covered with
heath when
was
it
imbedded in peat.
found
It
is
the sides.
It
was reckoned
to be "burn-stone,"
series.
may
rock likewise
whetstones.
is
Stone
it is
of the
It
flat
usual
had been
as
now on
of a grey colour,
celts of
greywacke
short stone
cist,
with bones in
it,
was disinterred
it
at
some
years since.
* " Like
money by
Druidse pecuniam
Patricius, torn.
ii.
mutuo
p. 0.
accipiebant
in
posteriore
vita
reddituri.
during
Some time
209
another form.
itself in
granite of
its
bnriij
among
its
lustre.
The
its
among
the
sand and debris, but the illusion of having met with a gold
is
^'
scales
"as
from
cat's -gold"
far
from a real."
But
if
in pursuit
we go deeper,
Ah
dream
false as the
The bright
ore
is
of the sleeper,
gone.'
Moore.
But
expe<itations
of subterranean
wealth as concomitants
of the
" Stones of power
By Druids
can be
justified
or red of office,
raised in
magic hour,"
by various precedents.
dug up
and
was
in I808, a
Thus
VOL.
II.
''
is
Sometimes
the Hazelrigg
"ruined
it is
Dunnio
^'
fur evei-nuiir."
210
DENHAM
'IHE
Of Cairn-a-vain,
hills in Kinross-sliire, it
" In the
TRACTS.
Dry burn
That
will
mak'
a'
it
o' Cairn-a-vain,
Scotland rich ane by ane/' *
where
for there
lies
the Celtic
elysium, and
inhabitants of
" The
largest of
On
coast,
the
Hudij or
the
city
of
Hud,
hen
^^^'-
all
l'^^^''-^^^
* Wilson's
Mr.
and
that
Mr.
Ogham monument,
Archccology
and
When
Preldstoric
J. F. Campbell, in
(also called
Callaw
some remarks on
may
this paper,
signify cairn of
the ore or mine, spelt in the genitive mliein, pronounced Vein or Vain
may be
visible at the
lilvc
a fact.
Tlie vein of
uucLm-
some
stone."
oighc,
the
paradise.
land
of
youth,
is
vol. iv.
this
is
some corruption
common name
for
this
Tir na h
Western
was made
after
211
after
its
whenever
fruitful
this city is
* Yallancey^s Collectanea de
plains.
discovered." ^
Eehus Hibenticis.
Topography of Ireland.
p 2
Beanford's Ancient
XIX.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Plague or Silver Stone.
'^
When
of the
money
parties
money
in
in water, in a cavity
the plague
transactions,
on the top of
and took
''
it
The remains of
recollection
this stone at
Hexham was
(my
of an aged lady
informant),
when
walk,
to
would
silver,
unknown
and
to
upon
it,
coming
and she
to
to
her surprise
after,
her father, to the stone, but the spit did not pro-
effect."
Guide
p. 17.
Finding of
to
the
Hexham,
who picked
a horse-shoe
it
up
is
1853.
a Horse-siioe.
is
the ))arty
stated that
a child, on
spit
to her,
She confessed
deliirht.
unknown
Her
standing in the
who
going
how long
to be married.
it is
before
Elsewhei'e
MISCELLANEOUS.
the
number of
l^eople, it
that they
213
Some
nails
simple
is
to
is
still
customary
to
they will
master, otherwise
One had
mouth of
their
the hive,
Petting Stoxe.
Roping.
each
side,
by taking hold of
their
"jumped
to leap over,
and
lifting
them.
After the
which
in order that
ceremony
attendance at
in
was necessary
man
'^
money
to
it
might be
be performed_, the
perquisite.
In country
places the roping w^ould take place for three times at the least.
A
" I
bought
to
The ribbons
my
NorthuDibrian Song.
Mally, the ribbons of red,
I bought her
For she
to another
it still
winna' do,
my
it
suffi-
THE DEXIIAM
214
my
" I bniio-lit to
The ribbons
was
I bought her
For she
TRxVCTS,
to another
it still
Avhiter
silk,
than milk,
winna Jo,
m^
known
but
Hexham.
"
!
air,
The
and was
air I
know,
it
Old Toast
Mr.
W.
me
told
that
when
memory
of
it
Northumberland.
in ISTorth
following
the
toast,
but the
Uaj
the Deil,
Rock him
In a
Who
wcel,
creel,
doesn't
"svish
ns
a'
wed."
GuiSARDiNG Rhymes.
Fragment
"
of a
silence,
gentlemen,
Alexander
We
Guisarding
is
my
Rhyme
if
in
you would
name, and
I'll
South Northumberland.
silent be,
who never
acted before,
more.
young
What
I call in, he
is
a tailor fine.
coat of
manv
made
this coat tf
mine.*
MISCELLANEOUS.
Billy
215
witli
As we
>;;=
are
of us
what you
will,
At Wooler,
in
beo-in cruisard-
call
rhymes, of which
recites
at
I
One
enters and
"
Redd
Hero comes
pack of
in a
pack of
fools
fools
Eggs
man
many
at
eggs,
Cheese.
versus
teens "
at
least,
i.e.
tliat
from thirteen
to twenty,
He was
much
for
opened, and
stomach.
it,
field,
and he
it
laid the
as a knife.
it
this,
and having
Some time
after,
as
He
many eggs
then
made
a wager that ho
The
offer
them, and no
evil
''
effects
resultino^,
he
won
the wao^er.
itself."
216
is
a large
column
Yevering
a battle, but
prostrate,
is
spoken of as indicating
It is usually
Bell.
among
By
the
common
people
Another account
position.
it is
called
there,
now
is
its
present
who
are
represented like the Pechs or Picts to have had very long arms,
pitched
where
it
Bell,
and
people to be the
full
Hedgley, removed
in
work of the
is
to cover
called in Armstrong's
by the country
devil.
soil
it fell.
map
it
S., vol.
viii.
p.
still
It
name
North Tynedale.
'^
its
'
altar-like
summit
'
in the shape of
'
Both
stones
were
standing
in
Horsloy's
time
(1729-30).
at
MISCELLANEOUS.
217
distant; but the interval not being carefully estimated, the con-
sequence was a
fall into
drowned
is
'
Leap-
stones
stood
within memory,
basalt, blasted
The
last
them, of
of
by gunpowder, yet
an
lies in
inclined position.
"It
interment.
is
spot^
through a duel
on the heights east and west of the river hurled these Titanic
missiles at each other,
fell
midway, a legend
Gargantuan
is
in
supposed
to, as
Alnwick,
has written
newspaper
* It
is
are
possibly
also described
more
The
it.
version of
it,
Newcastle
exact
by Mr. Hall,
in
late
Week!//
Chronicle
representations
of
Arch. yElian., N.
S.,
Mr. Tate, of
vii. p.
11.
the
vii.
218
popular
Bewick Moor
Scorer writes,
A.
belief.
called the
'
far that
so
There
is
cavern
on
ceedlno-
'
''
says,
suppose
many
years ago.
It
own rustic
circle.
And
his journey.
as
happens in
travelled.
all
And
and
started
on
much
left.
further,
Then
and did
some way, he would neither have meat nor candles to serve him
on his road back, and consequently must die there and never
more be heard
studying what
of.
And
to do,
it
so
and quite
at a loss to
he took
kindred."
it
to
And
know whether
as a warning,
and returned
sty en.'
Hill,
was
to his
home and
near Glanton.
J.
had
Swinhoe,
Cateran's Hole, on Bewick Moor, to HelFs Hole (more frequently called Hen's Hole), a wild ravine at the foot of Cheviot
Hill
"
MISCELLANEOUS.
it
219
and defence,
means of
as the
An
mind
candles
exactly
whether
tell
seven years
for
either
but
made up
his
or
seven
I cannot
days,
what he should
ploughman, saying
'
to his horses
Hup
states
in
the Whirlstyeii.'
Eoond aboot
He
and
be,
ended in something
it
less
than forty
solid rock.
He
this sup-
says that
at
Bewick,
''is
connected
that
which
is
Dunsdale Hole." *
is told of " Eelin's Hole," which
called
It
lies
far
up among
the
it
to explore
it,
his
music continued
to
be
THE DEXriAM TRACTS.
220
it
and Cateran's
"
I doubt, I doubt
I'll
to
Pudding
Thurso,
less
a hollow cove,
is
grinding of the
who ventured
'
worn
sea.
too far
and
is
some
also to
There
''
of
by the cease-
Many
lost himself.
people, good people, heard him long, long after, playing his
"
pipes in a low, hollow sound, some four miles up the country
Piper's Coe
way, has
o^
but there
is
it.
There
382.)
The
p. 116).
connected witb
p.
Cowend,"
is
St.
name
is
seen.
men going
quite through
and such
like incredibles
off,
End have
known by
the
same
at Tresco with
Several
Fugoe Hole
Land's
to penetrate the
West of England
is.
dogs going
of
" by the
at the
skin of their
p. 185.)
To
mad dog
in
South Tynedale,
it
was
MISCELLANEOUS.
water of some
into
Avell
221
had
it
One day,
spring.
at the
my
place wdiere
was induced
fields
to
come
^'
informant dwelt, a
allyin
was
to
^'
* about in a
tied
up
but
mad fit took it, and it broke loose and bit a weaver's dog
and many cattle. A man was forthwith dispatched for Lockerly
the
water
and when
to taste a little,
from the
it
evil
eftects
ensued
bites.
cattle, in the
county of Durham, being aifected with hydrophobia, and a messenger was sent to the borders of Cumberland for a stone,
have the
in
effect of
curing tliem
pa])er, of date
Dogs,"
this
the
the heading of
no
state,
that the
'
much alarmed by
visits
spirit
of the age
'
Mad
in
Northum-
of dogs in a rabid
less
^'
wdiicli
to
"
We may
add
The worming of
to
To move
the word
"\YOik
is
iiaUijiii\ >,\'j,n\i)'u\'^
side.
In North Nortliiniiberland
saunterini;-,
-ettinL;-
on slowly with
222
I
am
i\Ir.
Hume-byres Penny
called the
white penny.
The following
all
the cattle,
sultation
It
was
a place
at
it
amongst water
Ish. T. lent
efficacious.
T.'s
slaacrhtered or undero;o
it
penny
show how
to
to a
it
in
was
mouth and
its
be rendered
to
Mr.
many
a course of medicine.
dabbling
was
left to
bitten
It
in contradistinction to a silver or
was
history to
its
supra.
iihi
me
years, wrote
for
" The magical penny which Mr. Turnbull had was not quite
large as a
common penny,
but thicker.
credit
out,
was given
Mr. T. has a
powers.
to its
came
to
left as
a deposit
much
letter of thanks,
it.
Hume-byres on
Upon one
his master's
and ])rocurcd
letter
It
ride
it.
occasion a Yorkshireman
it,
got
Avith
The
at least.
when they
so
hundred years
for a
It
ol'
thanks.
it.
The
to
gold, but to
it.
think
it
last [)erson
was
at
Hume-byres,
who got
it
away, Bfteen
year;^.
223
]\IIiSCELLANEOUS.
His address
doubted.
lie
had returned
as follows
is
by post
it
The gentleman
whose
cattle
[In Mackenzie's
ton."
150,
is
it
said:
''
w\as got
it
of Nortliumheiiand,
i/^i's^.
but that
ii.
Tritling-
149,
pp.
Tritlington,
is
Here
John
Sadler,
is
who from
tural
about
a
it,
He
by Mr.
making
the
When
to opulence,
and
was inquiring
same inquiry
Morpeth and
at
memory
The
213, there
effect:
the
belief in
Hardwicke's
p.
^'
fortnight since
Wooler.
to
lately erected
"mad-stone" extends
Gossip
Science
for
September,
a quotation from a
is
America.
to
1871,
New York
In
vol.
paper
to
vii.
this
" Five children, three white and two black, were bitten
by a mad dog
in
Pulaski,
week.
last
eflPect,
of them being
all
January, 1872,
neighbourhood."
vol.
viii.
p.
persons bitten
whom
It
is
mostly prevails
the
a popular belief in
America
that
"
now
said,
gone mad.
mad-stones in the
to
Mad-
it is
among
it
is
quite
widespread.
224
Va.,
lias
implicit
Illinois
and
faith,
who
fully
s})ecial localities
wliicli
she has
believed
their
in
There are no
efficacy.
is
there any-
that
in such
" There
number
of corbies
(ravens or carrion-
Our
an
corbie's
in
nest,
article
which
Corbie-heugh,
the
said
is
triangular
piece
keeping, but
it
since
of glass
is
now
this
the
size
of a pigeon's cgg^,
elongated.
It
stones
-not
so
it off.
From
its
our
1
1,
white as our
Kimmero;hame's
laid in the
thickness
It
cattle of
was
some
and carried
in
October
(quartz),
by being
was
stone,
It
letter of date
common chucky
drank."
In a
lost."
talisman,
transparent
or
have
to
beast.
it
for
an egg,
])r.
p. loO.s.
225
MISCELLANEOUS.
Stewart Hall, in the parish of Eothesay,
Isle of
Bute, for-
curing
like
man and
beast,
under
stones
'
considered
the blink o^ an
when they
invaluable in
ill
e'e/
VOL. n.
Guide
to
In
More might be
said about
curing stones.
* Wilson's
^'
p. 67.
XX.
BORDER SKETCHES xVXD FOLKLORE.
On
Capon Trees.
Covin, Coban, or
old Scottish
visitors."
He
derives
ment
corruption of
it is
it
which, again,
is
or conventus, an assembly.
Cove?it,
lovers
a cove-
is
them was
called
thus a variety of
in the old
services
is
The witches of
prettiest of
The covin-tree
Anglo-Norman,
Arthure."
summons
or
troth,
The
holds
same view
the
Demonology and
as
Dr. Jamieson.
castle
was
called the
his
company
an antient
there."
"
But best
When
on a
visit to
Alnwick
in
summer, 1861,
found
it
to
227
tree,
Alnwick Castle
And
guests.
reference to
ball,"
for instance),
and
it
sung by young
it,
against a tree.
From
(within
is,
bowshot
of
met
his
lord
rhyme having
girls,
ball,
spinster
life.
"
"
And
so on, the
married
state,
the
ball
But there
is
for r,
b,
and
state, stands
and
fulfilled, it is to
''
obtained
It
its
to
be remarked, the
name from
Brampton, Cumberland,
office
of a tree of meeting.
met here
Carlisle,
who,
in
a goodly
number of
branches of
their
this
cold capons
body-guard partake of
this food.'^
Q 2
(Denham's Cumber-
228
Tradition
^. 11.)
and by
makes amusing
The only other,
far the
of,
stands
"
It
has
its
name,
tradition says,
from
its
From
Abbey,
is
literally coped,
topped.
many
of
of Jedburgh
other trees
word capen
It
monks
But
cop)^'"
besides
Another
capon-tree.
the
may
Two
In
vol.
i.
48 of his Historij
p.
it
have
other derivations
"The
it:
dotted with fine old wood, and at the foot of the haugh, on the
who
its
name from
the Capuchin
It is
fi'iars,
which the
named
tree
after
stands
belonged to the
The
the prior.
The haugh on
monastery, and was
tree
measures twenty-one
it
feet
two
and fourteen
and covers
Morton's
feet.
fully
It is
Cyclopcedia
of Agriculture,
feet.
an area of ninety-two
its
vol.
ii.
J.
feet high,
Grigor, in
p. 477,
says
feet.^^
Mr. Jeffrey,
its
in
tree
is fifty-six feet,
boughs
his
is
is
and the
nearly a hundred
second volume,
p,
260,
BOEDER SKETCHES AND FOLKLORE.
corrects himself
I am now
name from its remarkable
hood worn by monks of Jedbm-gh, and
resemblance to the
its
capon.'"
his
his
aid,
artist
"
as to
satisfied
229
two monks in
and the
beeves,
allegorical,
prices of wool
more correspondent
to
romantic predilection,
their
like the
about
the
and mutton
points of fat
an
character
historical
Lady Grace
of
Sir
occupation
any
than
John Yan-
brugh, for a cool retreat from the noon-day's sultry heat under
a great tree.
Mr.
capuche
(Latin
caputium)
are
the
friar's cowl,
Capuchon, capuce, or
J.
customary terms
tlie
but
capon.
of nobility.
A
to
Esq., of
ii.
vicissitudes of
have stood a
silent witness
"
by William Oliver,
p. 8,
this
To THE Capon-tree.
Thou
sere
hast known.
which
aged tree
may
THE DENHAM TEACTS.
230
"Jed wander'd
'
When
at its
own sweet
will,'
began
first
Would
fill,
ran.
heart,
And
It whisper'd
Bear on the
And
"
Roman
battle-cry.
forest, scaur,
shade
forest bore
Rome's tongue
a memory no more
Hast thou
231
That, of
all
is
mirth,
The
"
And many
Has
Ah
"
did'st
tarry
Ah
charms surpass'd
sunk beneath most cruel woes.
fate at last
u Twas in yon
glen * that Richmond's knight
'
Was
caught by Douglas
in the toil
all
all,
could
foil
or slain.
And
This glen
is
232
native vale.
wide,
Hear matin-chime,
From
'
fair St.
Sweet Jedworth
at
Mary'sJ hallow'd
pile.
Thy
grey-eyed morn
lone,
'
Or good,
And
Were
labours of the
sooth,-
human mind
StruggHng, as mind
is
A.D. 1540.
Jedburgh Abbey.
tree,
With hidden
subside
effect,
though
all
unmark'd by man,
Some
Will never, in
still,
rolls on,
single wave,
But
233
span,
all life's
'^
And
There
is aii
The
''
breast,
was and
Our Capon-tree,"
Scene?'!/
and
objects in
will
be the same."
Antiquities of Jedburgh,
Jed Water.
It stands
It
is
''
on a
told of
is
little
John
to
the
meadow
terminating
essayist, that
Guide
and with a
trees,
'
There are few who have not shared in the feelings of reverence
for the
objects around
striking
in a
The
tion.
of
them
recall
degree,
suggest
dismantled
olden times,
the
castle
telling
forest race.
the passing
the
tale
away of
train
may
of
While other
of
present
time, they,
pensive
the
reflec-
memorial
but a venerable tree has a moral which the dead and inert
remains of
lifeless
is
something akin
may have
to that
in
human
In the budding,
THE DEN HAM TRACTS.
234
There
something inspiring
is
aloft,
its
away from
the whole
sapling.
in
and
light
air
its
with the
strength of
castle-like
Its
its
growth,
mind
to the
the oak of a
its
freaks of
when
1,
1862,
Many
of our Northumbrian
and
villages present
life,
They are
hills, vales,
filled
they are also the scenes of historic events and old-world legends
were,
it
Englishmen travel
of other
life
own homes.
more
Whittingham
which
is
is
and
in the
old
Saxon
yet
it
stands
in the fortlets
in the
his church,
hills,
footprints of
midst of
on the adjoining
wonderful
tower.
Durham
existence
in
we
The name
Northumberland.
that
is
Hwittingham was in
Ceolwulph king of
to
common
or village,
this
learn
a.d.
kingdoms constantly
ral distinct
at
to
devote themselves
refuge in
monasteries.
to
During
into
many
235
cloister
religious
According
the
to
tempted
and
life,
seve-
other, the
take
Venerable Bede,
Ceohvulph, a
listless
and inactive
king, was smitten with the prevailing mania, and after reigning
eight years, he resigned his
monk
entered as a
it
by
his beneficence
crown
to his
he enriched
wine
bestowed upon
Warkworth)
it
the
villages of
with
and besides
all
their
built there
Wudcestre, Hwitin2;ham
made
Truly royal
gifts
to
a church.
No
mention
retains distinctive
of Saxon times.
w^ere
is
little
long
work
Twenty-two years ago such early remains
more extensive
still
much
the church
but unfortunately
in 1840,
when
altered.
in
North Northumberland
236
can be traced.
Saxons led to
while the
fell
the proud
ruin.
to
by
hostility felt
Our Saxon
fire
relics are
all
ecclesiastical.
Part of
farne
Warkworth and
Lindis-
built
up into a
pillar in
Norham churchyard.
Saxons
Alnwick
Castle
Saxon
And
but
all
such are
we may
here
seen in churches.
circular
arches
now known
to
belong
to a later period.
and
w^ere represented to be
Saxon
style as
type, but of a
was
nately of large
cement
in
little
advanced in
art.
this rubble
was sometimes
set, as in
Sompting Church,
representing as
it
little
At
beyond
in con-
the corners
it
when
Arches,
the wall.
into
large,
237
the
windows were
times
with
were
highly
in
headings
triangular
characteristic,
double, being
from the
but
All
these
that appeared in
in
and
set
belfry
were
back a
little
not to be seen
is
it
Whittingham Church.
the
windows
are
peculiarities
them
those
small
the
by a rude balustre
divided
front.
for
and some-
only some of
Rickman
gives a
modern
alterations
At
interesting features.
had marred
their peculiar
end of the
and
aisles
and one arch on the north appeared of the same early Saxon
of
style
architecture
exterior angles
work; "
corners
the
of the
wall
aisle
in
was a double
in the
But of
of the
tower,
which
still
w^ork,
Notwithstanding the
storms of eleven centuries have broken over this old tower, the
rubble masonry and quoins built of the gritty sandstone of the
district are
but
little
decayed
is
a greater
has
ruthless
hand on what
North Northumberland
our early forefathers
ought not
to
is
;
left.
it
an
is
There
is
no such old
be deprived of
its
relic in
and
we
238
and with
An
w^alls
entrance,
evidence that
east,
Sir Robert
Bowes and
Sir
is
an
In a Survey
made by
original
it
say they, " bene tw^o towers whereof one ys the mansion of the
in
now
picturesque objects in a
life
castles
by plunder.
down even
This
protection.
to
In
tow^er for
Colling-
there
of insecurity
state
was no
continued
Lord Wharton
the same
the
Wardaine court
James
at
''The 16th I
Alnewik
Castle,
Ed.
Cross,
and Noble's head w^as set upon a tower's gait at the towne of
Alnewik." " A Book of the losses of the middle marches by
the Scotts Theuves, presented at Alnwick on 16 April, 1586,
gives the
spoiled in this
ar
tyme of j^eace
and
villages that
all
them
Then
follows a large
number of complaints
The following
the Scotts
is
Lilborne,
est
239
New Bewick
goods).
by
the period
Bowes
Sir William
January, 1596.
^^
The
darker picture
drawn of
is
and the
Touching
number
is
beds.
take
above 20
great, the
it
that
manner
horrible
Buckbage
men
in their
will be
killing
in
in
his
man
Collingwoods."
Scots in 1587
was estimated
at
92,969
6s. 7d.
a great
sum
in
those days.
Borders little
closes or crofts
were
to
ditches,
ways were
to
met
be
at
to
resist
the ways
made by
tenants, farmers,
bow
these
ditched with a ditch 4 feet deep and 6 feet broad, with a double
set of quicks
Bournes,
Armstrongs, and
many
Elliotts
in
endured
this
penalty for
240
their lawlessness.
monarchy brought
close
this period
now enjoyed
may
in the
feel
Border
lands.
changed.
in the
it
it
in
Edward
it,
peculiar to
ancient
the
kingdom of Northumberland,
called
lialf
work
to
and
lowest kinds
of labour.
The term
it
is still
is
pre-
who performs
whom
and
his estates
were
forfeited to the
Crown, from
they are
now
worth.
Leaving the
Wood, which
village,
we
great Thruntcn
little
Roman
road, which
eastward of Whittingham,
and which passing along the base of the Crags, and away by
Holystone, extended to Watling Street, thus connecting the two
wliicli,
during
Roman
tlie
241
county.
One
name
of these
is
In times of disturbance
found
Cave^
refuge
may
them.
in
have found
and possibly a
to
used as
name from
the persons
Some persecuted
minister of
were subject
especially,
religion
feet.
form caverns.
bears the
some parts
in
freebooting
Wedderburn
Priest's
may
have
name.
we
very
scan over the varied and beautiful features of the scene, and
trace the
hills,
The
district.
fine conical
forms
head of the
valley,
A mass of this
w^e
From beneath
at
we
rest,
there comes
it,
we found
the
II.
242
and Brcamisli
tlie Till
at Doddino-ton,
Eos
Castle,
Northumberland.
cultivated,
villages,
and
their
beneath
lies
is
highly
halls,
diversified scenes in
On
and Bewick,
Thrunton, and
to
Thrunton
the
nests
the
Crao-s,
some time
falcons
ao'o
built
Any nobleman
of
and
rocks,
his
wdio
ruthlessly
might
surely
having
"vermin."
as
such
tenants
partridges
or
rabbits
may
in
district.
with wood.
a detached
is
is
an
is
down
the
easily bo
is
to
ditches are in
distinct,
and broken
irreo-ular
is,
on the west
there
of the
ground.
and there
hill
fortlets is
is
rugged sandstone
in
side,
is
twenty
feet.
sides,
hill
made.
sandstone rock.
on the west
The ditch
Two
side,
in
some parts
is
means of a causeway.
its
them
of
few
the
On
shot
for
our
proud
be
W.S.W.
This fortlet
is
deep ditch by
its
entrench-
some parts
in
24o
inner rampier,
its
is
and in
this
differs
it
^vliicli
and
built up,
from most
fortlets
made
Eomans may
for a time
Prol)ably this,
art the
have occupied
it,
inner wall.
The
Eoman
House stands
the site of an
and
it
on low ground on
is
the subject of a
curious
its
The
A lord
castle
on
the vale.
She remonstrated
What
into her
hill
It
were opposed
to
like
to the
all
a boar,
that
Under
sent
nlgh.t,
and nightly
had been
he ascended the
liimself
achieve
superstitious
of her servants
erecting a
herself of the
commenced
One
some of
hill
the lord
his retainers to
built
powers
when
enormous power.
when
the boar,
244
out
cried
in
loud
voice
'
Up
in the
They immediately
visitation
and never
fled
will of heaven,
fa'.
"
And
George
stands.
in the
\'ale,
where
Tate, F. G. S., in
1862.
1,
Traditions of
Old Max.
down
Meg
or Meldon.
And
form miconth
^'Aye! many
Thalaba.
"
?
Southey.
a time."
his
curt and
what
his reader
for.
that rendered
he, with
all his
best historian of
a spot
much
many
and
minds
245
charter chests and pubh'c records, where they reward the reader,
like a
Had
''
he not told
Meg
alive,
of
we
us,
and continued
Nvith the
hues of time.
known why
to
commissioned
Meg
of Meldon," he
^'
says,
would seem
to
have been
who
May, 1652.
died in
mortgaged upon
manor passing
Fenwick
On
family.
who
also
at
Ford
gown turned up
and in a
stiff
vandyked
sleeve of linen
hat
her nose
is
'^
to the
Delaval
Castle), she
down
was
at each ear,
at
money-getting matron.
at Seaton Delaval in
family,
is
possession of the
the
into
was
frill."
''
She
is
represented,"
uncommon among an
ignorant
distinguished." *
''
ii.
p.
394,
'
246
to join in
his ancestors
to
But
White
besides
says,
drawback
this
An
"
opinion
is
to
popularity, Mr.
her
generally
of a large amount of
the
manor of Meldon
money
;
and
prices
were low,
rise in the
make
to
possessed
to
Amongst
these she
it
Meg was
Eobert
by the
is
entertained
realise
when a
thereby a proportional
profit.'
^*
In addition
Hodgson,
'-
to
She used
to
many
underground way
vras
in the
Hart, called the battling stone, upon which people used to beat
or hattle the
lie
As
a retribution for her covetous disposition and practice in unearthly arts, her spirit
and
was condemned
icalk she
was the
to
wander seven
j'ears
from Morpeth
to
to
Harting-
Many
nights
of watching and penance are said to have been spent over a well
to
little
souili-east of Melclon
the
247
Tower,
she
vrliere
had
little
coffin
the
doo\
on the
D-Ift
site
of
of seeino'
posture for
many
an ancient stone
in
^rliosts
nights together.
slttinc^
This coffin
was
in a doleful
called
by the
country people the trough of the maid of Meldon^ and water found
in
it
vras
a specific
in
inveterate complaints.^^
for cattle."
beautiful
woman.
in
passed them,
there goes
Meg
of ^leldon.'
Such
v\'ere
the fables
memory
last
to the discovery of
ceiling of
in,
at the time,
had
'"
by
^\i\
ii.
248
countryman
made by an honest
would
assist
him
He was
served.
the time
like himself
who
further reminded
was necessary
to
be ob-
he attended at
destitute of courage,
a jack
roll,
which
at that period
would appear
of drawing water.
comrade seemed
their business,
to
have been
to
His
for he
rendered him
all
power, and when a loop was formed towards the middle of the
chain the countryman thrust one leg therein, while the other
allowed him to descend with
To
possible care.
all
his surprise
in ascending to
him
that he
might land
it
it
firmly, gave
on the bank.
safely
it
this last
was speedily
swing towards
Unfortunately,
V\x^
dissolving spell on
lips.
the store
tlie
words,
their hold,
the object of his anxiety eluded his grasp and descended again
into the well, out of
mortal power.
which
Even
the
it
is
the
to the femi-
who, strange
man
to rehite,
own
made him
'
had endeavoured
Meg
herself,
folly not
gentleman for
I have also
to
249
'
" *
life.'
relations
Some
from an
ao-ed
ing in the ruinous " castle " or tower of Meldon, where tradition
says she once resided, happening to turn over
lighted
so
^'
it,
much
it
went
better for
it
stones,
all
it,
thus brouoht to
some of the
money
lii'ht.
with
filled
making
to
a trial to obtain
some one or
other,
it
he
and sure
enough, some days afterwards when he went, the stone was overturned and a
where
it
had
^'
Who
lain.
divulged.
In troublesome times,
say,
it
my
pelf, is
Of
this kind,
and
wrapped up
in
a bullock's hide, was sunk to the bottom of the deep, clear well
of ]\Ieldon.
JSTot
only had
It
it
to sight,
but
it
i.
pp.
250
of,
hanled
''
brim,
to the
it
challenging
when one
and had
all
by
all
for w^e
to it
made
Scarcely had he
the impions
boast
But
often
still
may
there,
and
other,
may
the
crystal waters,
blue
down through
is
treasure
is
yet
whom
it
to raise to plenty
is
and
honour
''
The
infernal machinations of
where
it
reported
is
to
it
dreadful exit
Fated only
ploughmen
still
discernible
for, as
to
himself with
^^
sort
it
the
territory, for
when
the
when
when
to review at night
of the
made her
she
Few
villao-ers.
late in the
My
it
was
informant,
i\Ieg
A woman
Morpeth
to a
who
tlicn
to
cross
in
letters
from
listening, for
life.
field
which they
at the time,
When
woman had
251
preceded them.
''
had
it
way
off,
in her
mind"
to
'-
as if that
there's the
till
woman
was some-
to stand, but
when
she looked back the figttre had vanished, and as for the footsteps, like
Lucy
Gray's,
'*
This
is
easily explicable.
''
By
The abused
But
sight."
we say of
known for his
wliat shall
vidual, well
of fear,
and shock
An
indi-
in
white,
among
till
mirk night,
he found
awaiting passers-by.
sat
Meg
At
the
to fley, let's
further along.
Meg
give
She
at length
came
so
little
moved
not
He had
still
close as to
Frighten.
252
balance, and
fell
Another adventure
in
vrater.
Meg was
which
1877 by a clergyman
in
me
that neighbourhood, in
the hand-
reproduce
Two
told.
it
to credit
it,
sat
who
theirs, a
it
was
believed in
Scotchman,
They then
in
company
for Thornton.
As soon
behind.
fell
as the other
Where
are ye,
Meg?
Let's
Meg?"
the
The other
Scotchman
thing, picked
but the
''
see
after him.
first,
shouting,
and made
off,
and
fiister
you,
after
them
to stop
them,
The two
lads
had got
field.
all terrified
Thus
and running
at
The
their
utmost
state
pith.
tliree
men
arrived
they were
long
''
ZDo
home
in a serious
The
recovering.
Todd was
said to
Meldon were
closed before
my
day/^
soil
to
The seven
localised.
we
it
years'
enchanted inmates
its
may
be
rest
is
akin
enfranchised
or
to
its
Tliomas of
Ercildoune^s and other waifs that have fallen to the good folks
The Pixies
Devonshire, for
wdiicli
them
The
spirit's
When
o^ beast,"
same sacred
appearance as a dog
ard sanction.
to
we have Mrs.
for the
is
also in
interval.
a black dog
is
Thus he aj^peared
a favourite form.
anno 1649),
in
in a
Hob
to cite a
Grieve_, the
Border
Lauder wizard
'
like
a great mastiff, bigger than any butcher's dog, and very black,
upon
running
p. 35.)
him."
(Satan's Jnvisihle
an unclean animal
is
east,
held in detestation.
World Discovered,
where the dog as
'^
that the
inhumed
his grave,
till
them no further
make him
to
quiet in
lie
bury
still,
a black
and gave
trouble."
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
254
been resorted
to as
portance in periods
of alarm.
Briton
ancient
pit,
legend to that
found in
is
effect.
In
wells.
at
lie
is
a Yorkshire
Slmr]-)'^ Histor?/
of Hartlepool we read of
who
filled his
bottom of a
brogues so
y^ell,
Avell
manor of Trimdon,
in
that county.
land,
was
under a
laid
in
spell to
lads,
be won,
"by two
twin yauds,
We
find a similar
A person
a Yorkshire tale.
artificial
it
appeared in
means he was
it
hj these
when he exclaimed
*
^ Irish
iii.
Choice Xotcs
Pt.
White,
p. lOG.
we'll
in
Richardson's Local
]\
have
this ark.'
113.
Ili^t.
I)ir.,
in vain."
it
vel remains,
^^athan's
still
deeper in the
Keeve
a large
is
it
beino-
change repeated
slight
According
solid rock.
bell,
it
other replying,
Xo
^'
to tradition,
for
brought
it
all
"'^
in Cornwall,
fidl
awful blasphemy,
this
all
where
hill,
ZOO
there
was
we have
got
vrho
had
but the
''
it is
it
a silver
it
when one
fishing,
thanks to him,
in
without him,'
prankish
dog or
"sewed up
spirit
calf-skin."
That
in a great
there
as
lies
much
as
would enrich
in the parish of
the shape of
gold. J
''
all
Scotland.
Lesmahagow was
at
wo have
little
an early
many im-
idea.
The
peat moss.
a Highland
as a wiiiding-sheet.
of Chester,
dug out of
i.
col. 82.
256
when discovered
before 1120,
^'
leather/^
in
1723 was
coffin.*
was
first
wrapped
in
John Forcer,
stitched
up
in an ox-
and the hide was found " tolerably fresh," but the body much
when
decayed, in 1729,
the
recollections.
and
rugged
crags
of
Harbottle,
in
adjoining scenery,
the Loughs,
It is
which
is
the
famous
^'
Bowder Stone
rivals the
men
Westmoreland.
in
in the
neighbourhood
and address
The
it
is
to
a fine
to descend.
On
one fine
summer
''
He
entered a public-house,
to
was
little difficulty,
to
His
and
after
it
was time
to depart,
and he
He
Durham
Cathedral.
ii.
p.
oGG.
257
not a
further,
in sight,
tlie niglit
to content himself
traveller in
was not
to lie
some
To
repose.
knowledge of
an
with remaining on
down
was closing
Wrapping
he laid him
sleep,
however.
made him
his situation
Early on
the following
to
was
from
safely extricated
had passed so
Harbottle
his
sleepless a night.
is
Saxon camps
by uncle Toby
in
it is
also
remarkable as being
is
noticed
1863.
Legends of Brinkburn.
it
have added so
much
monographs that of
to
public
research^
many
late years
well
still
inacces-
to
assume
untold."
The contributions
that
we now
II.
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
2 00
do
to
is
to
may
have
also
abiding
its
record.
Under
a grassy swell,
there
affirms
ment
to
which access
railing,
a subterraneous passage, of
is
manner denied
an apart-
and as these
who had
in
to
perpetual
slumber in that
mysterious abode.
who
it is
condemned
its
in like
is
Hounds.
iiis
are there
entombed
alive.
sight of
shep-
herd, with his dog attending him, was one day listlessly saunter-
when he
lie
felt
discovered a
number of
steps
its
own
flat
man yea,
door
that door
Groping along
this warily,
he
extent.
opening readily ho, along with the dog, was suddenly admitted
into
day seemed
to shins there.
him
full light
of the
enough
to strike
for
of
from dark-
on one
power of
]ie
beheld
side, at a
259
table with his head restinf^ on his hand, slept one in the garb of
many
floor
hound ready
renew that
wdiich consigned
them
all to
the
a noble
fatal chase
On
chamber of enchantment.
all Avas
quiet,
horn
applied
first
whom
to his lips to
it
sound
ever he
made
it,
own
dog, as
if
restless
lifts
it,
the sw^ord,
to hustle about,
while
agitated
Alive to
the door.
him he replaced
Reassured, he
it.
turned round and found to his dismay that the door w^as moving
Without
to.
w^aiting a
by
He had
his dog.
the half-
wdien, shaking the vault with a crash, the door shut behind
and a
him
The
him
pouring maledictions on
monkish thraldom
whom
it
he had just
it
left
its
and nipped
fore parts to
it
come up
throuo-h.
modes of
which
telling
it it
it,
answerable
We
s
recognise
it
in the banished
260
Seven Sleepers of
in
Roman
Epliesiis
profound slumber,
habits, lying in a
o-arb,
call the
Switzerland's
till
lake of Lucerne
in
Frederick
who
three Tells,
Dane
Ogier the
or
Castle of
Holger Danske,
Cronenburgh
miraculously preserved
Barbarossa
cave on
^vhom herdsmen
in a
Germany;!
brethren,
to
in
1|
the
unite
near Salsburg
.;
^^ and in the
Transferred to Britain,
Spectator.
mountain and
it
and hunts-
men.
correct
legend
Dunstanborouo-h
about
Castle
tells
that
its
* Plutarch.
t Gibbon.
\ Paulus Diaconus de Gestis Longohardum, lib. i. c. 4.
Magnus Hi storia de Gentihus Septentrionalihns, liomcv, 1555, lib.
Mrs.
Heman's
Works,
ii.
p.
Olam
i.
c. 3.
G5.
1820.
Inglis's
Sweden,
and DenmarJc,
II
290, 291.
p.
Menzel's
History
of Germany,
i.
1820.
*" Keightlcy's Fairy Mytliology, p. 234
tt Hone's Table Bool;
ii.
p.
747-750.
487.
Quarterly
Pu'vieiv,
261
his
Monk
of
adjuncts
and
Service,
being
others
imaginary.
men
"three
contains
Lewis,
*
;
" hounds,
and
hawks,
coat-tails.
in
armour"
with
surj'ounded
Walter
Sir
horses." f
their
Scott
in
spells
Kerr.J
Sometimes
and mean-
of
Sir
Michael
while remain
Hills.
Scott
Halbert
aid
to
The vault
at
and the
who may
him
difficulty to free
Thomas
the sword.
mighty
And
who
is
he, with
fly
at the blast,
And
"
!
Lejjden.
Widdrington, a
p. 84.
Alnwick, 1827.
I
of Morebattle, p. 172.
Scott's
Demonotogu,
p.
183
i.
p.
where
o K >, &c.
a
similar
p.
357.
story
is
cited
Leyden's Poetical
262
Durham.
offers
the
bells
way
till
swelled.
or
to ford it
when
but
by some
and sank
was
and
to
They journeyed
Font, which owing to a quantity
of some monks.
means
them,
at length,
so
much
to secure
by miraculous
Owing
to the bottom.
interposition,
monks
so they returned to
the
to recover
with a messenger to
Durham
to
attendance
superior
to
abilities
of high
imprisoned
the
liberate
bells,
To
are
this
day
heard
it is
at
to
and
WaUis,
removed
to the cathedral
are doubters.
lifted
Durham
lo
the
and
full
every one.
to
But
disaster.
^'
in
bells of
Brinkburn
his
in
bells
History
of
Brinkburn were
Walter White
with ease
there in safety.
Still
there
i)ool
where the
[Coquet]
''
ago,
bells
were
lost
positive
is
tliat
on the
to
still
is
2G3
^'
some years
at the root of a
tree,
Thus
myths.
Abbey
hill
says
tradition
was transported
them
Tweed
bells of
is
'^
fitted
up
bells
of the abbey
Clackmannanshire,
it is
The
||
it
sunset.
bell
made
to ferry
Cambuskenneth
of
was
in
passage
lost in its
is
it
was dumb
rang of
remained dumb
and the
to
where
on which
tree
Bells
it
its
it
Northumherland and
Gazetteer
Coldingham Priory,
Hilson's Guide
Border,
p.
week
accord
till
till
ever afterwards
so long
hung
satisfied
187.
Scotland,
of
the
own
J Fullarton's
all
had
the
bell in a tree,
j-
It
There
It
there.
where
Coldingham
sunrise on
still
to
to
of
is
Hexham, and
there."
Of the
to
Maree used
bell
Another tradition
across.
the
that
Lincoln, and
to
i.
p.
iv. p.
140.
290.
Hunter's
p. 75.
to
Jedburgh,
Fullarton's Gazetteer,
i.
p.
p. 15.
233.
II
IF
of Antiquaries
oj'
Scotland, vol.
iii.
[.
2'Jl.
264
with their
new
^'
They required
positions.
were reconciled
Many
change.
to the
to
be
tied,
till
they
When
its
original
and favourite
situation,
it
chain or rope."^
Tiie tolling
who would
Scots,
stood
embosomed
fairies
lie
resume
remedy the
in
fairies
was
bell
formerly dwelt a
them, he
is
Were
It is
it
in consequence
was
insufferable,
and as
restored
hill
When
" Pleasant
'^
troll,
u]) bells in
is
to
of the
reinstated,
quo ante.X
This
these beings. " There is a
fell
bell
in statu
they got
it
This
Eoxburghshire,
their revelry
buried at Brinkburn.
Hounam,
situation, so densely
parish kirk of
its
it
having found a
sitting
troll
very
dis-
ii.
136.
i.
p.
223.
'
A7ell
he, in
a melancholy tone,
cannot
live
dinging
'
!
at first for a
!
265
'
am
going
?'
'
Ah
said
'
HoLED StONES.
monuments known by
the
name
of
^'
Holed Stones."
They vary
The monument
larly call attention is at
to
a round
and
in form.
Tolven Cross
by the wayside
a conspicuous object
in size
Formerly
but within the
now forms
They
by
In a
it
last
it
was
twelve
field adjoinino-
the
opposite side of the road, perhaps eighteen yards from the stone,
is
stone at
Madron
a practice
was
still
told that
to cure
St.
The ceremony
finish
it is
effected there
is
little
to
in the back,
Constantino.
'^
his
[>.
112.
This
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
2G6
custom
more than
evident, for in
is
five
which were
flat slab
diately filled
barrow
up the
of stone.
place, with
some mysterious
pit again.
the Tolven
is
erected perhaps to
Mercury, Oct.
it
class
of personages.
Ahiicick
1869.
1,
Warnings.
In
humble
died,
life.
are
from
all
half-sister,
if
haunted with
They
whose grandfather
this
was
not,
when
she heard as
sister,
who was
in bed, on
;
its
being alluded
to, said
Her
half-
house they were at rest in bed, and she could not obtain an
answer.
When
she
she
in the
other house
wheJi
the news
of her
relative's
267
time corresponded with that during which she had been listen-
human
lifetime,
before
his
On
wife.
first
him the
hand, as
from
rettirning
if
he were preparing
sheaf,
which
the spot
where
up a
to tie
when he reached
in
appeared.
Her
flail
Her
the floor.
it
selling
vision of a
also
with his
hended
its
warning
father, thinking
^^
foot.
Ah
''''
you
an"*
for
man had
was
roof^
fire,
ominous character,
for
it
and then
went
And
me."
on
ye needna tramp
''
fell
to extinguish
it
oot, it's a
An
old
had
man who
lived
on Tyneside told
me
first
was over.^
aunt
who had
carrier,
she
all
One day
till
was vouchsafed
was surprised
to
see
* For death-wariungs
see xVubrey's Miscellanies,
lea,
to
all
an
this relative,
to
He had
who was a
be elsewhere, approach-
268
She remarked
was
own
door^
who may
On
day the
that very
was hampered
This same
dame
of her sagacious
prescience,
that she
neighbours,
Having
crossing the
in
its
so sure
also felt
relevant reply.
stiff,
directing
in
was drowned
carrier
who
made no
a neighbour,
to
avIio
how
'AVell!"
who
consumptive,
possibly
lass
milk.
sold
^'she^ll
flit
next day.
A joiner^s
It
Hexham
'*
to church,
the period
left
at
home was on
the outlook at
his return.
his
way
loiion
man
left
to
bed that
High
These
at
Wooler
Fair."
stories
may
incipient stages of
them
after-
in
it.
in
went
ao;ain
wondered, and
have
no
be accounted
still
doubt
trivial,
more extravagant
been
propagated
beliefs,
and some of
traditionally.
The
an auld
freit."
we needna mind
thae freits," or
it's
"just
liad a
2C9
she departed.
Ah
gone.
child
four
at
the
in
was
asleep
that
"
He
rose,
Another
in the vicinity of
ties are
much
and
of Northumberland.
This was
and a
letter following
announced
illness,
his death.
home
at a distance.
While he was
marriage
From
the
Heaton, a
who
''to
dream of a
a sign of death."
is
same party
among
believed in
relating the
I derived a
Near
to
her gossips
one of
As
she
passed the mouth of a certain pit near the road she saw, as
were, a white female rise up,
who
in a short time
fiery
grew
in
it
size
temper, which
270
about
moutli with
struck
the
pawing
coals
so as
to fly
even
to reach
annoyance
about the
pit
tlio
her,
as if
occasioned
this
heels,
its
had vanished.
it
One
wdiom she
to
told
it
pit at
it,
w\as sceptical
tell
if
there
was any
wild thing she had done, and was so overcome that he sicarfed
for fear.
It
In a
letter
men were
o'ave
me
may
good example of a
icraith,
''
years,
woman in crossinoj
o
What is singular,
naming
a,
whom
On
both knew.
Departed
father
black
man
this
is
so
and
so,
their ear
to in childbirth,
stovj/
that ever I
me
met with.
son, John.
life
satt
upon
drawn by
cotcli
box
he
doo- at
is
and of
it
The following
''
naked
They were
for forty
knew
nio-ht.
lonesome moor in Westmoreland by
I/O
whom
the female
6 swine,
fell
all
black,
sick u]:)on't
and a
and dyed,
appeared after."
It
av-ay.
came
to the
271
ominous of something
family.
''
him
or
crow
to
Whenever
into
evil to the
this
was the
case,
it
He was
no small perturbation.
to
it
into his
we went
it
to
threw
to
some of
whom
he was
is
And what
much attached
us.
no doubt he
is
is
had
it
it
at night.
into
it
less
thought of
the house,
and
^^
for
threw
its
who
neck
about."
perhaps
it
arose
from
this
crowing.
In ^Westmoreland, " a dog howling three times, a cock crowing the same number before midnight, putting a stocking on
wrong
side out
these
are
all
will last a
whole
week."
In North Northumberland
said that
t Sir
it is
W.
vol.
i.
ii.
p.
243.
134.
i.
p. 131,
272
Also,
if
i.e.
if
one
death occurs,
fatal
one breaks a
disli, it is
much
credited that
there will be
'
if
more within
of articles of
dentjdly,
is
four die
common
use, or
it is
be two more."*
If
In Montgomeryshire
Newcastle.
at
''
the loss
thought to be a token." f
is out
If one
if
six.'
beheved in
a saying
is
-was
In the
be broken.
i.e. to
said
it
is
a sign of a relative^'s
death.
An
old
who had
man had
o-ot
was
still
left to
him.
his children
all
^'
Ah! my
son^s dead."
It
was
There
popular
is
of wdiich
'^
belief, in the
is
laid in
Northumberland, close
its first
to the Tillside.
knew
it
see her,
when one
and
my
"*"
John Fcwtrell
xiii. p.
t Ibid., p. 12G.
ill,
though
I
to
Cluh, vol.
mind, an
from a day's
my
freshness in
in
my name
Montfjomery8}Lire
125 (1880).
my way home
Collections by
Powys-Land
273
my
like
my
my
mother's or
much
of
it
it
seal,
spirit to
me." *
once attributed
As an
sician.f
'^
to
his
breast.
is
flatter
one of his customers, told a mother that she should make her
newly-born seventh son a doctor. "'Deed,'"' she says, " I ha vena'
the
means
to
make him
Avitch.
labourer,
was
Charles 11.
these:
yersell,
On
to
him
^'
Among
What
is
than
words of
he used were
another
man?
for
Matthew Paxton, 3
vols.,
London,
1S5I:, vol.
VOL.
II.
ii.
pp. 181-2.
274
Myddvaij
p.
tlie
kino-e is but
and the
kinoje
''Wash
the w^arts
with the water from a font in which the seventh son of the same
man and
wife
is baptised/'-'
feet
afflicted
lifers
illness
restlessness.
naked
rose from
who was
the
is
first.
on his breast.
^^
In Northumberland there are what are called ''evil eyed
and " bad-handed " people. Those who have the misfortune to
if
Fenwick,
" bad hand," and the servants had
Egg-setting, I
am
told, is not
me
as
Mrs.
having a
would think, but has to be gone about after a form, and has
annexed
to
it
place a few of
I will here
Avickshire.
It takes thirteen
cocks
to
BOEDER SKETCHES AND FOLKLORE.
Housewives don't
that
when
set
set in that
275
confessed
is
it
which
me
Durham
College of
" The
Sign of Life."
The expression
^'
is
one,^^
"I
he writes,
have
said to be the
'
Sign of
and
Life,'
if
number
repeated a certain
which)
is
I cannot remember.
regard to
son,
My
ledge.
mysterious
this
wife
me
informs
'
My chief informant
Avith
mine of
the
that in
local
know-
of England
south
tiling is called
'
Living
Blood.'"
A^iRTUEs OF Irish People.
cow
in the
Wooler
district
was brought
believed that
die.
On
if Irish
o'
the hass
people spit
to stroke or
She was
all
all
also called
on
came down."
to
rub the
It is also
will
p. 166.
Evil
One evoked
One of
in-
the propitia-
276
tory names gi^'Gn to the malign being was '^ Owcl Harry.'
" As cunning as Owcl Harry " is a popular phrase.
An old
Avife
called
On
one
Harry, Harry,
my
saying to him,
''
son Harry, I daurcna ca' ye Harry at neet, for fear the deil
should come."
claim
that
it
had
shire
if
it,
fairly lapsed.
Long ago
archfiend should
lest the
as a perquisite
to
a \qvy
wicked man.
One
of
the
to
He
for prey.
Not long
did not
know what
to
is
company
if in
to
search
see
the
Some raved
do in their perplexity.
man
entered.
nonsense, others
This
company,
field
go out
animal coming up a
''
Berwick-
in a country place in
my
informant suggested.
sternation, the
fled
on their
fields
is
w^ell
known.
precipitately.
crown-piece in
shepherd, seeing the shining bribe and hearing the voice, guessed
with
whom
thee!'"
defies
(1823),
out
cried
H.
(T.
Bell,
'
277
Ahiwick,
Sauney
in Xeiccastk
Mag./\\.
351.)
p.
as if
''
exorcism.
j^ractices
when
owne
his sone
The
said
Umphray
Umphra went
in againe
And
'
Whoe am
Thomas, wold
his
and came
to the doore,
'
And
Am
I?
say,
'
Thou
Um-
phray saynd the said Thomas and corssed (crossed) hym, and
'
waken
to
Umphray
'^
Then
this
seinge hys sone, the said Thomas, in that radg, maid a compas
tlieife,
that
Thomas many
times,
'
son
Thou
to
tempt
'
Fye,
"ij:
common name in
lived
at
Howburn
There was
Cuthbert's
comes
territory)
Blacket,
who
St.
or
and
beincT
Belford
to
a volunteer he
undergo
* Depositions
Ihid.,
burn
p 272.
\ Ihid., p. 275.
to
come and ^o
to
in the
271.
training.
home was
p.
had occasion
military
Proceedings
at
Lurham,
278
He might
iiig.
surrounds
man
it,
have been
civilest
lie
who conducted
dressed in black
was the
lost
liim
houses
and behold
Lowick
in
He
Howburn.
to
Forest,
it
consisting
was an
by pitmen
cottages inhabited
to glance
The Bogle-houses
of a few humble
uncanny
place, notable
which may have been only the wailings of the wind exaggerated
by the
DiVINATIOXS.
Sowing hempseed
is
In Northumberland
pre-
practice does
its
The
direction
is
Go
in at
at
hempseed say
On
left
making
down
the experiment,
it is
love,
(W. Barnes,
in
deter one
having
to
Midsummer
my
To
to
go
to
the
but unfortunately
"
you turn
soles
in to sleep
and repeat,
The woman
that's
my
But
when
she of
see,
wears
ever\^ day,"
Avith a sight of
may
bride to be
Xot
destined to be your
279
successfully.
told
her
me
One day
who
this
after the
whom
I dreamt.
He had
is
had
is
''
Hoping
I place
this night
my
my
"'
by her bedside."
Whenever
go
(W. Barnes,
to lye in a strange
uhi sup.)
my
garter 9 times round the bed post, and knit nine knots in
it,
my
To
see
In
love as he goes by
As he walks
in every day.'
^^
You must
(let
left
garter
280
comma
knit a knot
'
To know
know not
the thing, I
may sec,
The man (woman)
vet,
That
How
And what
he does
my
that shall
all
"
(Aubrey's Miscellanies^
gentlewoman that
my
confessed in
never seen.
Sunday
at
church
young Oxonian
sister,
Sir
'^
'
This
William
is
(at
in the pulpit.
a musician,
137.)
p.
knew
if
if
tlie
hearing that
in
on
Sarum), up pops a
man
saw
in
my
dream.'
at
nubial life."!
This custom
is
of one's lover,
been common
said to have
when
it
in
being sufficient
Northumberland
to
secure a dream
round
the bedpost.
If one eats a red herring
raw
to supper,
and goes
to
bed
On
first
moon
after the
new
year, look
2, vol.
ii.
p.
329.
silk
handkerchief unwashed
we have
moon through
days
are few
What
old.
a query
is
'^
:
number
will
of years that
moons
till
she
phenomenon
who have
country
in the
and you
it,
of
age in days.
young people
at
number
six
visible the
281
"
visible
is five
or
There
experiment.
is
to
first
new moon
is
as good),
charm
Kew
go out
it
thus
Year's
^'
:
At
the
Day (some
in the evening
and
stile
say:
'
moon
my
all hail
reveal to
to thee,
me
be.'
You must
thus
*
those that married them.'*
At Wooler
their
neck
The
a husband.
upon with
servant girls
in order to
first
tie their
left-leg stocking
similar intent
so also
is
is
round
to get for
used to dream
she
*-
Aubrey's Miscellanies,
Henderson's Folklore,
p.
p.
138
115;
Highlands
of
being
the omitted
it.
this
particulars
It is said to
are
worth
be customary in the
p. 98).
282
clone of
beer^
first to
Akhough
6.
and a ring introduced, and then they are supped, and the
umbrian formula.
number of
obtain,
is
The
first
wed.
Even-ash "
^^
treated of the
be
falls is to
both Mr.
leaf,
leaf of the
divisions on each
which
side,
rhyme
is
very
an equal
difficult
to
The
first
My
It is
ash,
The same
friend,
I do meet.
now
shoe.
left
will get
It is also said,
" Even-
you a sweetheart."
deceased,
who
me
supplied
with the
Scalding pease
is
common.
way.
On
married.
company
up on a
is
dish.
to be first
of division.
They then
mode
is
is
at
a time,
tried this
that
charm, but contrary to the usual number o^one, saw actually three
the last of
whom
man whom
had a wooden
leg.
circumstance
when
she told
it
my
father of the
dislike to his
wooden
leg
but
who can
BOEDER SKETCHES AND FOLKLORE.
control the fates
this
28 3
also,
''
This
is
must
" In
upward eyes
Tvitli
virgins to discover
retire,
Of heaven
but require
Scotland, a
a certain
and threw
field
Agnes
in
rhyme
some
grain,
sweet, and
Hither, hither,
shadow
of
the
' '
On
Agnes
St.
take a
row of
night,
pins
and
they
destined
bride
'
"
or
which
Agnes fair,
now repair
The
after
bridegroom was
this
very
night.":!:
and you
will
Near Kendal
ao-o
'^
''
you
of
there
or her
shall marry.^^
j-
him
dream
Pop. Antiq.,
Keats'
i.
p. 21.
st. vi.
p.
]84.
284
One was
to
before
them
but
sit
down
if
I recollect
when
that
him
See
the parish
by
in
Brand's
all
that
man
in the order he
to this
was
required three
it
Po;:>. Antiq.,i.-p.
were
aver
Something similar
also
to
state,
to die that
115
year in
{Ibid.,
p. 170.)
To
''
of beliefs belongs
this class
which
She-Holly/'
Table Book,
iii.
and becoming
I first related
pp. 254,
scarce, I
255
may now
In Northumberland holly
is
it
is
out of print
here.
lie has prickles, but of she, being the upper leaves of the
she.
tress,
"
The
leaves of the
momentous
the leaves
topic
a future husband or wife. To ensure this
must be plucked upon a Friday evening, about mid-
night,
and
after
being brought
Saturday Journal,
i.
p.
131 (1841).
London
285
pillow.
My
dream worthy of
all
It
When
servant.
leaves, to
caps set out in profound silence for the tree, which stood at a
farm homestead
at
way back
voured
much
agreed that
if
it
and
to return,
his
at that
The
to
his
master^s
house, into
At
knocked,
him he was
which he was
to
time he entered
as quietly as possible
invaded in
this
shouts out.
Xo
who
the
this to
his master's
to be asleep
make
be reckoned an impropriety.
forced to
the head
was previously
and servant
As
he was
On
each endea-
to
moment, the
tive of
added much
it
aot
who was
and
surprised
to
find his
bed
^' Wha's
thou?^^ he
Geordy ? ^^ (his first-born,
unceremonious way.
reply.
''Is thee,
Deep
No
silence.
answer.
'^
"
Is thee.
Is't
thee,
Tommy ?
Michael
'^
^^
286
The farmer
in
show.
As
ill -able
It
parties below
door,
bedfellow.
him
tantalii^cd
inquire
to
not, as the
dumb
Avith
it
The farmer
mirth.
at
When
most
it
The
result of the
whom,
or
whom he afterwards led
This
test
its
under
supposed qualities
''
" coban
tree,"
is
grows
^^
of a
in the
This
dreaming
tree " to a
by those who
its foliao-e
by breaking
Avished to
put
ball," as played
at
Alnwick, at the
confined to children.
own, contributed
"'
myself of an
On
article
of
Covin, Coban, or
Capon Trees."
met
tree
their pillows."*
my
dreaming
is
o-reat
'^
is
his visitors."
A corruption of it
* Wilson's Guide
is
where the
supposed
to liothesaij, p.
to
131.
laird
in
always
be " coglan-
He
derives
agreement;
which
ivec."
it
again
287
a covenant or agreement in
Covent, Aiiglo-Kormaii,
The
witclies
The covin-tree
is
thus a variety of
summons
lovers
vices
in the old
indelibly impressed
Walter
and.
still
ser-
crafty p.
exchanges of
literature.
Sir
But
When
on a
best of his
Alnwick
visit to
own Minnie."
in
1861 I found
it
to be well
And
it,
it
sung by young
ballj
and
spinster
"
divine
still is,
girls wdiile
against a tree.
they also
From
their
bowshot of Alnw^ick
rhyme having
his guests.
reference to
future
prospects
up the
matrimony or
as to
life.
to
me,
ball,
degree.
288
Keppy
ball,
keppy
"
One
coban
ball,
loaniii'
(her
tree,
and
name)
tell to
is
me,
to be
And
numbers
for the
ball
Brompton^
haugh
at
in
it
shown
is
that capon
trees
beincr
trees
such as that at
class,
the
letters v, h,
whom
owe
i.
p.
my
and p
Mr.
theory.
436.
much
less
One
Moll
Satan,
Ha' (^lary
was accustomed
instance of applicants,
She turned
frightened)
it
form of divinations
excusable
The following
Hall)
to
in
to
this
thief,
shifts
with
lost or
stolen.
(or
restitution.
that called
malpractice, at the
make
is
a lively instance:
Wooler, overintimate
resort to
them
is
from a washing
laid out to
To
this
we
find
a parallel in the
evidence, April
air.*
1,
1G70, of
BOEDER SKETCHES AND rOLKLORE.
That
tliis
York
Durham and
those kept at
Castle, published in
and 40.
Society, Nos. 21
'^
289
is
an exorcist,
She was
of shores.'"*
also a
upon a pair
reputed ''charmer."
Between
1561 and 1577, one AUiee Swan, wife of Robert Swan, made a
confession after the minister in St. Nicholas Church at
castle,
upon Sunday
after the
Sermon,
New-
and
before her eyes, " but following the persuasion of the devell,"
filthie
knowledge of
lost things,
I^i
man
sus-
life-time, she
great wind,
and
Wilkinson, who
after
fell
she
mett with
Anne
and
telling
her that she had bene att a wise man, and had raisd this wind which
had put out her eyes, and that she was stout now she had gott her
money againe." Depositions from York Castle, p. 177.
* Depositions at
Durham,
p. 84.
t Ihid.,^. 117.
VOL
II.
290
Turner of Fclton.
fell o^Y-
While
residing
]\Iorpeth
at
away]
this
do for yt
to
shirt
to
Robert
''bytwixt
goon [taken
and said
for a grote
wyff in Newcastell,
that
come
was a laking.
after this
And
of this examinate, and this deponent wold not agree to gyve the
said Bell
shirt
tell
he lacked."
that the
his said
Aldermen of
and the representatives of the shoemaker trade, discharged Bell from working in that town till " he had brought
ISIorpeth,
them a
certificat
tell
him
Simpson of Tynemouth,
Thomas Grace,
land,
and
On December
says a pair of
* Depositions at
Durham,
in
the
" and of
of the person
their
own
who had
291
when
name
the
them."^
^'Dec.
Cumberland.
1G67.
10,
Before
Thos.
Denton,
cloathes of
had
whoe
it
was
and sheares
knew
as
for some
and one Jo. Webster
much
as he could tell
little
this
was
as follows
"
By
St. Peter
and by
St.
Paul
has stolen
If
Turn about
's
riddle
all."t
at a visitation for
(Hodgson.)
turning the
Charming.
Charmers and
fortune-tellers, as distinct
^^
spaeing
women"
is
the
York
ii.
vol.
ii.
p.
Brome
329.
'
292
were accused of
diviner
by
this crime.
and
lots,
was blamed
Tlie first
in particular
to obtain those
to clear herself
whom
on
their affections
were
who became
her neighbours,
set.
i.e.
women
power of causing
them
being a
for
of telling disengaged
She had
six people,
Isabella for
In October, 1450,
summoned, and
by
is
lot,
ferro
c ")
It
was alleged
which consisted
in
Davison were
Alicia
'
cum plumbo
et pect
f.
it
had been
so reported.!
stolne
''
skill in the
moneyes
discoveringe of
was
lioure
^'
And
afilicted.
One Eobert
Pyle, pitman,
affected with
fits,
his face,
and touke
* Depositions, 4'C.,from
t ^b^'^; p. 33.
t Ibid, p. 84.
Ibid., p. 101.
York
itt
upon
Castle, p. 29.
and
cliikl,
reason
And
shoe
demanding the
breath of the
them
laid
why
293
to
moutli.
liis
mayor
before
either
was
ministers
or
that
itt
he Avas bewitched."
Pepper
''
for a
call
upon
itt
a redd hott spot which was upon the back of his right hand and
did take a silver crucifix out of her breast, and laid itt upon the
;
And
said spott.
what
knew by
itt
in his mouth." *
still
older example of
life^ is
Durham
proceeded
sick folkes
and
against
their goodes,
to
manner
The
as is daranible
and
their
charmes
in
bring white
mouth
of the
such a strange
horrible."" f
Aubrey
mouth
gives a
it
mouth;
midwife.''^
in a cloth^ that
till
it
is
dead
it
does not go
down
frog,
and
p.
Durham
127.
294
same.""^
This distemper
actually called in
is
North Northum-
'^
ill
spiretts,
Ann
has recourse
to
cured
for
him,
Greene, a wise
which he ought
Ann,
''
was perswaded
him
that that
was good
that she
The which
disease
or mediciner, wdio
to
to
woman
left
his necke,
For Ulceration of the Ears. Take the seed of the ash, othert
wise called the ashen keys, and boil briskly in the water of the sick
icool.
Ihich^ p. 338.
it with some black wool," &c.
an ingredient in the charm, " which was made by the
Black wool
Lord
is
Jesus
and shown to
Himself,
Christ
Olives,
to
gather
"
herbs to
New
the
three
brethren,
cunt
we go said they to the
heal wounds and contusions." &c.
of
Ihicl,, p.
455.
sheej), is
tions, bruises,
wine, and
is
used in embrocations."
in
vinegar, oile or
Lovell's Panzoologicomineralogia,
Plmy and
Dioscorides,
but I do not find in either author mention of the wool of a black sheep.
Amoui? the Romans the victims offered to the infernal gods were
black
And
295
slie toiild
him what matter was that to him, she would use it att her
pleasure
goe his waye home and care nott. But, goeinge
home, hee was more pained than beefore, and returneinge to her
;
he told her
uppon she
to looke to itt
charme
should mend.
itt
said,
''
Where
lier.
did,
some corruptible
did amend."
and used
itt
twice in
namej
9 times over.
Likewise for
'
Boate, a GocVs
lieire,
them
which she
the
in the fire
and
burnes them
Roddam, mayor
of
Newcastle,
against
Peter
Banks, who
life,
such leases."
let leases to
him and
to
impose
by
The wile
thrusting one of these fictitious leases into his hands.
having discovered the fraud ^^was mighty angry and much
The contents were these: " I charge you and all of
greived."
you, in the high sword name, to
belonging to
(such a ship)
assist
from
all
and
296
thrust
the
into
This she
on
fire,
The
^'
to molest
her by his
Banks hath
said Peter
''
strange
often confessed to
magick
arts
and,
malicious spiritts
in
perticuler,
name
him when
in
conjureing
was
the informer
knows
she
evil
woman
and
that
who came
not,
to
present,
Whereupon he
like.
looked in his books, and writt something out of the same into a
when
that
it
to
lett
fessed, the
told her
And
And
young woman.
that
afterwards, as
Banks con-
He ''made
and payment."
his cracks
evill
spirit
and boasts,"
that
^^
that he
Thomas Newton's
number
spirits.
had
ill
He
husbands
to
pains
lease
10s.
to
whom
com-
And
he had letten a
expireing, and she not renewing her lease, her said husband
was
ill
or
And
could take
Banks,
^'
time,
alias
and apparitions
fire,
she
litle
in order to medicine
she
'^
that
of
in flames
till
297
and cure
her.
it.
it
upp, ga^e
it
again to
better." *
and grew
^'
12, 1673,
Mark Humble,
is
Thomas Wilson,
"
in his
AwVe just
Te try
Which
And
He
Pitmain Pay,
p. 17,
to ease the
weary cough,
is
him
off."
The
charms
^
;
fail
recourse
is
had
call
to the
latter."
fortune-teller,
who once
to
her daughter,
* Depositions,
Cj-c,
who was
from York
t Ibid., p. 201.
\ Ibid., p. G4, note.
still
more a
proficient.
298
on the
and restoring
strayedj
inflicted
many
a
by
heart
for,
under
laboured
that
cattle
many
a forlorn maiden
initials of the
name
some
to shuffle the
were
to for
dwining away
money from
cattle that
make her
mind
to
it
it
was
had no
tried
effect
have ^laid
salt
upon the
on their
disease,
ties of
This, of
tails.'
;
afloat
it is
At Wooler,
note.
free
for
said, has
with
that
her.
to
'
course,
for
away with
to
diseases
after
or
witchcraft.
light
lived near
''
of fortune-telling,
craft
also
the cat's
tail
if the
eye
is
rubbed
it.
charm there
for a
new
tooth
was
to
p.
85,
299
it
saying
" Fire,
fire,
burn byen,
Lord, send
me my
tiiith
agjen/'
is
" Fire,
And
To
fire,
send
burn bane.
me my
sure to get
tooth again."
sit
April
Before
1673.
2,
Thomas
Baites,
times in the
you
will
be
for Witchcraft.
Humphrey
Armstrong, of Birchen-nooke,
of
crossed-leg and
it.
spinster,
Mitford,
saith, that
of Morpeth, tanner,
company of
the
at
rest
Ann
Esq.
Ann, wife
att
The
Ann
said
att the
di\'cll
Ann
He
She farther
and
in
Ann
how many
" April
4.
who
Before
Sir
Richard Stote.
with the
to the rideing
was
last
night ridden by
300
Anne
the said
Crauforth,
^vhose
she came from Corbridge, and thre more, whose names she
knowes
were
not,
all
sorts of
by pulling
a rope,
them
to
all
table
this informant,
and
all
of
them who had donne harme gave an account thereof to their ^^rotector, who made most of them that did most harme, and beate
those
George Tajdor's
killed
that she
had power
Feb.
''"
1672-3.
5,
Anne Armstrong,
filly,
said she
his
mare, and
Johne Marche.
Xewcastle-on-Tyne, before Ealph Jenison.
last,
dame
her
as
her to
sitt
And
did.
Anne
lookt
'
after,
deaths,
who
that
made
woman
* Sile^ Northumbrian,
Wonts.
milk
she
man
after
day-
with ragg'd
at Stocksfiekl.
and
purify
'
head.
last.
the
old
but
desired
accordingly
Anne
informant's
this
had
is
to
into
would turne
dish.
should be
percolate, to flow
through a straining
So he
to there
like-
God.
also, to strain, to
Brockett's
North Country
And
with
all
how
first,
301
by there
all
meancs
bv rideing
tricks,
in the
house in empty wood dishes that had neyer beene wett, and
also in
egg
shells,
and how
swinging in a rope
But,
drinke.
if
to obtaine
how it
should be divulged by
she laie
downe
and
left
so
But
her.
after
And
when
till
suddainely
arose,
fell
all
since that time, for the most parte every day, and some-
times two or three times in the day, she has taken of these
fitts,
and continued
And
night a
little
Anne
came
cockcrow.
till
wdiilst
this
as
to (the) rest of
crosse-legged,
And when
up
in her
own
Anne Dryden,
but,
when
the bridle
of Prudhoe,
And when
to her, a
catt,
And when
rest of the
long black
which they
and bad
and the
she stood
Anne
Forster,
man
rideing on
spott of ground,
other shapes.
in the like-
of,
upon a bare
now
was taken
tector.
they
till
first
this
all
horses,
and
rid
home
302
And
first.
And
which they
and the
and
rest,
tlieiro
protector,
all
at
roome, which every one touch'd three several limes, and whatever was desired was sett upon the table, of several kindes of
drew the
table,
But when
did.
last
this
threatned her,
shift
And from
But further
troubled her.
being in the
and
if
cast her
field,
saith that,
closed
^'
all
Apr.
9,
At
Sir
John day
last,
it,
sitt
St.
And when
on
secrett.
Lucy Thompson,
Newton
off the
Riding,
John
crosse the balkes, she, the said Lucy, wished that a boyl'd capon
to
rest,
which
said
twice,
303
company, whereof
the divell, which they called their protector, and sometimes their
was
blessed saviour,
And
bright gold.
their cheif,
the
said
demanded
the plum-broth
thereupon
it
Lucy
come down
in a dish,
and
swing,
did
further
did immediately
sitting in
in,
and
and likewise
swing.
first
" She further saith that Ann, the wife of Richard Forster off
Stocksfeild, did
swing,
first
beakment*
of wheat flower, and upon the third swing she gott about halfe a
noe power
to gett water.
" She further saith that ]\Iargret, the wife of Michaell Aynsley
of Riding did swing,
flackett
for pyes,
and a peice of
t of
kening
ale containing,
wheat flowers
J of
beife.
She further saith that every person had their swings in the
^^
said rope,
severall
which
this in-
And
away
many
last att
knew
at the said
Makepeace of
New
* Beatmont, a
Ridley, yeo.,
Anthony Hunter
j-
Wm.
of Birken-
of a peck.
304
side, yeo,,
widdow, and
Ebchester
whose
Elsabeth Atchinson of
Eliot of Ebchester,
Andrew
Issabell
others, both in
Crooked-oake,
of
places,
their names.
viz.,
last,
being the
at Allensford, where
this
it
which inchanted
bridle,
all
owne
catts, others in
likenesse,
and made
this
informant sing
till
owne
And
at the said
divell tooke
and
did most
evill,
them
to
most
of.
"And
this
first,
them that
called every of
evill
he maid
named made
times
and
Lucy Thompson
first
and there,
as well as at other
witcheing them
to
death, and one ox which suddainly dyed in the draught, and the
devill
"
it.
Thursday night
after Fasten's
even
seller in
on the
drink-
last,
Morpeth,
thai;
shee witched
Anne
^^
305
was one of them that had but one shew on, which she
there
And
meeting.
all to
now
is
and she
olde,
called
is
now
continues soe.
''
mill,
confessed to the
Rideing
Anne Drydon
his
man upon
the said
horse from Newcastle like two bees, and the horse immediately
after
and
this
since.
'^
The
sakl
Anne
Lucy Thompson
confessed to the divell, and the said Michaell told the divell
that
he called 3 severall
dore, and
made
times
at
how they
And
kitchen
that ni^rht,
women, and
laid it
under
his
an instrument
downe
And
grinde
''
to save
goe of the
all
Mr. Errington's
mill,
till
Mary Hunter
all
made
And
II.
the gecr
in peeces.
to death.
all
to
last
dam
it
pined away
of the said
Thursday
fole,
at night, to
306
About
have taken away the power of the limbs of the said mare.
Michaehnas
last
when he and
his wife
dved within a
week
And
after.
And
breast, in
its
power of
it,
and
it
power of the
this is all
said
John Marshe's
halfe or thereabouts.
"Ann Usher,
they have
now power
now
pines away.
''
that she
Whittingstall, and
that
she
had
killed
child
of
the
said
neighbor's.
"And
this
all
and
divill,
all
the
aforesaid accions.
"She
Wm.
sore pinedj
to
have his
Hill confessed to
by which
is
And Anthony
life.
Stobbart.
and helped
to
that he tooke
divill's assistance to
witches,
at all the
destroy the
away
take
the
away
meetings among
goods
of
George
And
''
this
yeares of the
fifty
liad a lease of
come.
I>uey
to
her
for
Thompson had
come, and,
have persuaded
divill,
life
307
lier lease
this
mony,
or
know
or,
way
to get as
^^And further
this
^'
want gold
if
to
much milk
as
let
her
The
said witness,
Anne Armstrong,
deposes
On Monday
"
see one
last, at
hanging on her
foote,
in the
forme of a gray
and struck her dead, and bridled her and rid upon her
name
does not
now remember.
And
name
in the
pulld the bridle of her head, and she and the rest had drawne
their
compasse nigh
to a
downe, and
black
son, of
Thomp-
Slealy,
service she
Edward Watson,
of Slealy,
And
call'd of
who
after he
had danced
At
and Margaret
his wife,
now
Aynsley
X 2
303
ridd upon
''
May
and when
tliey
had done,
him homeward.
She further
12.
saith that
Ann
Partcis, of Hollisfeild,
the pareshe of
And
reste
the devill that she did enter into the house of one
Maughan, of
May
John
Anne
the said
still
^^
torment her
May
14.
till
life.
suspition,
and would
said
Anne immediately
and
said if there
the said
Anne
did
fall
downe
in a
sound
in
England
Johnson was
Isabell
one.
as aforesaid
end of August
last, late at
night,
lyeing in his bed at Rydeing Mill, betwixt two of his fellowservants, he herd a
man,
whoe was
Upon which
within.
as
he thought,
this
call at
was
that called,
though
it
to
know whoe
Soe he returned
Whereupon he
to his bed,
feet, as
called,
but
which
amazed
at
it,
309
under
Errinojton's
He
bed head.
and
drauo^ht,
lapt
upp
Mr.
Ra. Elrincrton^s,
and being
it
beino-
late in
awav
at
comeinghome,
this
draughts and to
till
And
^Ir.
Errington's draught
being got through he herd the people with the other draught
And
on
to a
thereabouts, where he
downe
came
after
them
if
both
lost,
to
then he got
men and
beasts.
And
getting them
home
all
of his maister^s draucrht and froeino- to bed, was that nicrht sud-
He
servant.
Christmas
last,
mill sett,
beino; sheelino;
some
oates
"
and
He
further saith
that^
their sights,
And
and rode
other things
violence.
went
to
bee.
all
was
as well
as
good
master's, which, to
like as
as heartily ass
come home
and
this
to the
all
came
informant went
Wm.
as well
And
after
homo
he
is
3iO
by
bridle
tlie
And
stood.
him
there haveing
stable
where he usualley
in his
his
hand,
all
were for
goe
to
till
with
life
it
this
him upp
to see
right
all
enough
in his body.
he went
since,
him
if
saith, that,
about a month
to
And
how
know, she
she
came
to
him
at a
that beast
power of
woman
to carry her to
to
come
And
said she
And
Mary
ox.
Ann
to
Mary Hunter
to
Eden-
her ther, to
the ox now^ continues lame and has noe use of his farr
Ann Armstrong
told
him
gray mare of
his,
He
saith that
sun-sett
and he
and
at night
saith
his wife
upon the
wliicli
31
above forty times and more flew througli under the mare's belly,
meanes hinder
the
And
brest.
this
informant
it
it^
untill of its
ownc accord
And
went away.
it
mare went very well home, and within four daycs dyed
mad
that she
was past
for
He
on Monday
his house
last,
where he had
to
meetinges.
this
same house,
when
night, being
last
And
companye."
Sunday, amongst
all
the
she said they mett, he was was soe sore affrighted that
to himselfe
and
resemblances of
the
to
catts,
number of twenty
And
And
the young
girll
girll."
in the bed,
till
and
said,
the
of the
roome
body lyeing
And
for the
life
being
most part of an
came
" Alas
in that condition.
to stir
his servants,
as she
discerned in her
hour
lay
floores
where the
with the
creatures in the
companyes were
And when
there,
in she
for about
an hour
And
began
to get
312
Ann Armstrong
enquired of
tlic
said
Mary Hunter
sonn
for her
Anton, and there being one of her sons called Cuthbert, wee
told her that
man
he was the
it
severall
tymes
for she
at their
knew him
meetings
ver}^ well
and desired
her to send him downe, and a lass that she, the said Mary,
afterwards came
She
to him.
liearing he
were they or
it
Thereupon Anton
not.
said she
was
to be there
was
gone, that Anton had confessed before the devill he had taken
tlie
And
death.
Richardson
knowes
Ann
in a
is
He
goe, and other times that she cannot goe without help.
Ann
know-
his
to see her.
saith^ that
coming
to
being asked
that
if
if
she
he were the
man
lived at Edgebrigg,
Mary Hunter
name him,
her,
and
Upon
Tayler.
it,
and
she answered
his
sister
knew him
she told
he
if
him
his
that
it
before
the divell at meetinge they had that she had gotten the
power
and the
life
of his
about Michaelmas
fole.
last,
The
since,
and
it
to his
body of
313
and
its
have been sore swelld, and letten him have endeavoured never
soe often to blood
it,
and he
see if there
its
death, he
And when
it
that
all
to
it
it.
it
litle
that
it
had was
all
drawne
He
saith that
the said
confesse to the devil] that they had the power of his oxen and
kyne, horses and mares, and that now, at this present, he has
a grey mare, the
dam
the
his
fole
was
And
in.
he thinks that
all
neighbours goods,
like his
"Apr.
Marke Humble,
21, 1673.
that he,
And when
ward.
she
wrong.
fitts
all
in a
And
for
afraid
Isabell
his neighbours.
And
came
Humble then
And
iii
ill
by
and admiration of
to the sight
to his
bewitched him.
soone be knowne.
And
was
his back.
if
it
it
it
would
of
314
Sf'C,
from York
Castle,
191201.
x\ll
the affair
is
not known.
Two volumes
and
Depositions,
issued
extending
from 1311
Depositions from
to
the
Durham,
and
tlte
more
salient features.
The
case on record
first
who
woman,
is
that
in the parish
Feb. 1435
cleared
John Symson.*
the
accused of
as
being a
^'
women
Anderson,
called
Elizabeth
17th May,
water wych."t
her
neighbour,
1572,
at
Annie Barden,
Shafto,
of
Wilkinson did
call
Northd.,
bears
Katherine Anderson
^'
'
315
and that
deedes doinge/ *
Robson
'
darted
comen of Hedden-on-the-Wall
she had
'
Anderson
Katlieryne
call
witclie,'
for his
good
said to Bell,
Thou
''
offence
was that
mother" being
wife's mother.f
Chamber, BelFs
Isabell
"
eld-
December
31,
shire, are
young children
to take convulsions,
proved
although
ineffectual,
counteract
temporarily affording
Her
influence.
Crossley's
relief,
to
Mary
confederate,
Wood,
of Hepten
The
consequence was that the day after six of the milch kine
sick.
Upon
her
confessed
remedie
this
it if
wished her
to
Wood
Mrs.
fault
away
hied
in slighting her,
Longe
it
but at
last
goe homo,
for the
her againe."
Wood came
to her to
desired
her
to
come
and
fell
woman, and
she could.
had done
it,
''
the
to
if
salte
and an old
sickle,
Mary Midgeley
kyne whose mylke earned in the gallin ;" whereupon she told
her that she had " learned of one Issabel Robinson who had
* P. 313.
r. d\6.
olG
were
take a
to
God
for
and
salte
litle
mend."
March
it.^
is
is
'^
much
that,
'
'
''
Bless the,"
by the death of
lo?s
He
further saith
to fother horses,
Mary
said
him,
to
Ilichard Booth, of
since
to
To Henry Cordingley,
his goods."
wished her
I'le crosse
^'
said
sliee
Boiling,
and
it
whom
and
o-one),
his horses,
he sawe the
And
saide
Mary
fewer wooden stanchions, the saide cowe being then white over
with an imy sweate.
blacke horse, worth
was a
fortnight,
And
16s.,
begunn
to be sicke
about Tewsday
And
till
And he is
And he
manner
a fortnight,
the
weomen
^^
the
tyme
Tewsday
Depositions, i^r
from York
C<(stlt',
last
was
was searched by
and amended,
pp. 6-9.
her meate
lumpe
litle
about
sawe the
like
And
out
stretcht
it
they never
tl.at
acquitted.*
Morton,
Wakefield of giving a
as
incredulous, and
accused at
left side
like
an inch.
lialfe
women sworn
Five
well."
verle
317
little
Kirkethorpe,
of
was
''
much, and
neither
his flesh
o;oe
much
The mother
nor stand."
waste,
till
he could
Morton sent
mistrustino;
and immediately
the informant
''
amended."
when
'^
she earned."
In addition
spots,
called
and acquitted.
Ann Hudson,
''
servant
sick person
drawn
is
woman
had recovered
after he
had
blood.
''
and prayed
witch
who
She was
In September, 1650, a
like."
Besides
sister,
The
with witchcraft.
she
to this
when
is
to
God
The reputed
28-30.
t Ibid., p.
Another person
38 and note.
318
was
^^and
me
done
this
come
she being
^
patient
woman
as she
into the
woman
that hath
March
17, 1652-3.
for
is
like
accused by several
the poor
woman
in
being so notorious.
ill
When
of."
quieted by her."
"
Lambe
this Eliz.
to
be the author
they also did beat her, and was never afterwards dis-
his wife
child sick,
owne
Eliz. at her
whereupon
forgiveness,
fall
foled,
enraged beyond measure, did beat her with his cane, and he
declared in his evidence, ^' had it not bene for my wife, because
she sat doune of hir knesse and aske
her worse."
She
also cruelly
him."
The
sick
man
her,
me
by drawing
who had
so drained
him of
if
life's
from
he could
stream,
52
^;
He
nothinoj.
week
The
after
till
he died."*
may
entire.
last,
319
"John
be given
to
him
in her usuall
and, presently
upon
much
strugling, vanished
Upon Wednesday
fell
which did
on the
strike liim
After he
received the blow", he saw^ the said Elizabeth escape upon a wall
Upon Thursday
wearing apparell.
in her usuall
she appeared
him,
to witt, in
five or six
in his bonnet,
persons to hold
no doubt of
afflict
to place, not-
him doune."f
it.
1
much
is
James
about 8 o'clock
night,
att
night,
shape of a
catt.
And
did vocally speake with a very audible voyce, and saide, that
life,
Upon which
itt
life
itt
and
all
To
his works.
the cat
appeared, " the said catt did violently leape aboute her neck and
* Ihid., p. 58.
t Ihich, p. 67.
320
shoulders, and
port
but did bring her doune to the ground," and kept her
itt,
On
hour.
tliat
if
the
third
occasion
it
fast.
of a cooper,
who had
And
else.
she
haveinge a desire to see her did this morneing send for the said
Dorothy, butt she was very loth to come, and comeing to her
she gott blood of her, at the said Stranger's desire, and since
The
said
"And
is
itt
Dorothy Stranger,
in the habit
cat
Another woman,
at
wore, in 1661,
third,
named
"a
Isabell
Dress was not one of the items in which witches differed from
other people.
Henry
sicke
witli a
docken
also,
whereupon
maire imediately
his
She had
also clapt
late of
"You
upon the
and
said Mr.
Franke
fell
will
you
kisse
me?
home, and
on his death-bed."
much
Katherine
125.
X Ibid., p.
Ibid., p. 69.
I^^^^'^ P-
said,
Where-
93.
t
BOI^DER SKETCHES
AND FOLKLORE.
321
^^
in the
likenesse of a rapp."
1G56, at a
7,
At
and
He had
was scene
said
^^
his wife
and servant,
at that instant
a great
also
was removed
he,
last
yell at the
in peeces.
bells,
and
and trunkes,
the boxes
many
And
in the house.
at that
as they conceived,
doggs and
catts
lost
18
common
attributes
it
to
and
his
;^'
who
she said
at
power of her
'^
like
lost the
teare
all
pieces." J
May
17,
was
1673,
and
fits
in
in one
an oatescepp
att
* Ibid., p. 75.
VOL.
II.
her bed
feet,
t IbuL, p 82.
X Ibid, p. 113.
322
In one instance,
certain ointment,
employed
him
it
burns
her
me
''
on thy forehead,
Oh, burnt
'^
it
was
that burnt
mediciner, transfers
^^
Thomp-
continually cried
out
^'
of one
Katherine Currey,
Doe you
and
is
in the
roome
to carry
her away."
'
alias
doe you
And
she doth
heart,
for
is
Potts, that
off that
wype
He
death."
to
she answered
to
New-
to
^'
at
by the use of
is
July 12,
1656,
Elizabeth
Lady
daughter of the
Mallory,
who
re-
William and Mary AYade as the cause of her long sickness and
fits,
fessed she
the
woman had
and punished.
^'
till
vomited severall
made
justice
full
it,
two
cats,
con-
In another
catte."
i)ins
fit
When
* Ibid., p. 202.
t J^bicl, p. 89.
i Ibkl,i^. 93.
Ibid.,i>. 124.
of
with
in
it,
she saw
they were
prison
to
rightly divined
Wade
fits.
323
her,
himself
she was
viz,
^'possessed with an evill spirit/'* not unlike that which animated Christian Shaw of Bargarran House, who caused the
death of seven poor persons by similar accusations. The date,
however,
is later,
April
1697. f
1,
1670,
it
very sick
in
fit,
her hand upon her thighs, intimatinge that shoe pricked her
thighes;'' and she also ran a spit into her.
Ann
two
The
old
woman,
of
Mary
little
She
it."
was
''
acquitted,
if
Mary Moore
saith, that
An
accusation of the
before Sir
latest
Thomas Loraine,
it,
to
w^xr and
endeavouring
to pull
a peice of
pinns.'^
stamp
occurs Dec.
wdierein Nicolas
^^
11,
woman
sick
wife,
of bad
had threatened
ill
1680,
Rames informs
being a
She
1674,
and hath
fame
6,
by riding upon
floor.
This she
her,
Ibid., p.
S,'C.,
pp. 176-7.
210.
t2
and
More-
324
over, in presence of
devil,
came
visit his
Fenwicke
''The saide
long since,
it
answesheard
]:^lizabeth
..
finger,
have
a^^ain
that if her blood
CD
had
wife
that she
it
})eople
give
I will
'
it
uppon
if
her
chyldren should get notice of the saide blooding they Avould goe
madde."
to the operation,
appears to have thrice run a great pin into her brow, before she
would bleed,
and
she, the
to
to
discloasc
it,
him
his
or
^*
wife
he would
not
if
prosecute
She was
her."
acquitted.*
that of
Anne
some
The most
of the
Northumbrian
interesting
trial
of
all,
entire, being, as
''
Witchcraft.
I did not find
many
Northumberland where
endeavoured
The
last
A woman
was
'^
this statement.
* Ibid., p. 247.
^^'^'^'^
IT- 191-2U1.
Till,
not
brow with
girl at
little
But
to
being bewitched.
is
held
Floddenfield.
said one
crookit
" I met
day,
my thumb
at her."
whom
Mr. J.
which
a pin.
Wooler
fair,
field
far
325
forefingers
Those who have the eyebrows met are witches and warlocks.
Red
An
old
man
me
told
hour
clothes
prevent her
from mahVn
o influence.
it
at night.
was
It
bore."
similar stone
hung on
is
placed
is
with a hole
friend writes
holes in
them
in
tied
it
man and
to
beast.
'^
:
Stones with
hung up behind
the doors
Witch
stones, so far as I
* FoVdnrr lUrord,
j
ii.
p. :2o5.
horses at night,
it
may
p. 147.
To prevent
the
Lag rifling
it hung ly
t
THE DENHAM TRACTS.
326
the
fields;
mills.
Cows and
in
]:lace
drawn out
To remedy
in strings.
could be
it
this
in a south-running stream.*
When
cows
have
eat nettles, or
and butter
not come,
will
person than
is
back
its
cow calved
to
it
discovered that
strength
customary
Good luck
to her,"
suddenly taken
If a person,
ill
when
witched,
a stronger
failing,
is
i.e.
woman
the cow,
to strew salt
docs the
it
is
along
all
it.
some misfortune
her.
is
if
if sold.
Avas
by
bitten
is
it
owner, whose
the
churning, there
When
udders
their
pismires,
will
if
befall
cow
is
''
I Avish her
his cattle
Becoming
by a strange malady.
lost
number
of
recourse to
lac
omiie
emiilsum
aqua)
fluenti
quo animadverso,
infundinit
alea3
Hfec
improbuutuv."
Con.
scribe
111
aniles
superstitiones
ista)
i.
prodita3
of Scotland^
xviii. p.
123.
lierii't
of pins.
it full
AVliile this
it,
327
after
to
having stuck
The rite
was scarcely half completed, when the person suspected came
'^
reeling "' at the doors and windows for admission, '' as if she
would
heart
down."
is
is
rendered inefficacious.
was
effica-
i\Ir.
in 1824,
was taken
cottager
ill
man was
consulted,
who
its
"where
cow of a poor
circle of fire,
and slowly
deemed
villagers,
and the
of the
infamous proceeding.
to
and
by triumphant shouts
escape,
The cow
died,
inability to
at the success
and
the
vile
had
not, as he
"'
I,
p. 4.
328
A
to
break her
As
sickle,
riclo-e,
once
the misfortune
liaviiiir
broken
field, as if
and
tlie
path
it
At
trail.
its
the
her return,
same
hare, in the
and struck
it
it
But
on the brow.
darted at her, and began biting and scratching her on the face
like
an enraged
A fight,
cat.
commenced betwixt
woman's
there
On
is
to lay
Not long
escaped.
it
slipped
after that a
mowing
in
rescue, else
attempting
very old
woman
in that quarter
had, in some
ugly gash
who fought
witli
the hare, but from that time forward could not abide her, and
She now
Losing
this,
she
fell
came
propriety.
renounced the
What
befell
her
and
in
neighbours'
was not
fell
foul
in short, committed
limited
of the
all
farmer's
the untoward
geographical range.
told.
revoking the
s])ell8
of witches
was
called
and iiuwan
tree
in
magic
ivitchicood,
divers
tree.
the
parts of
Under
it
is
The
ii.
tre
umberlande a roAvne
329
called in
is
it
a whicken tre
tre, or
North-
magical
As an
arts.
malio^nant nature,
influences of a
it
its
among
npon
their laws
Rudbeck mentions
They
character
it
which
wood, an honour
its
sacred
inscribed
shared with
it
the beech.
ash.
bed,
sprig
worn
in
the turban,
all
evil-eye,
spells,
approach
it,
and witches
when such
its
when
days of yore^
hillock,
shade "
in
footed
fairies
leaf""
he
if
In
on every emerald
it
might
^'
the
rowan-tree
Northumberland and
else-
some shape,
for
it
adage
x"
*
"
not,
ttc,
Journal).
(Heber^s
sound of a shaken
it
at a
There
is a
''
thread
in dread." *
it
deil,
week"
to
doubt the
330
pin,
In
threshold.
ploughman yoked
oxen
his
to
More-
had
portion of the
bade defiance
the
stall,
inserted, or a
would be danMino-
remembered
were
at the
when
man
a superstitious old
Thus
tail.
agricultural labourer
to
that once
red
It
used to be
by
to
'^
my
yeares." *
But
to
was equally
it
sailors, to
theii'
magic
to
I cannot
requisite to a prosperous
come
in
two
voyage
profession,
their cargo
A deceased friend
"
i\Ir.
old
wrote to
me
man who
travels
the
knows an
in Cumberland,
He
carries
keep
* Depositions, 4'C.,from
I
J. II.,
p. 18.3.
ill
These, he says,
if
carried
York
Ixichardsoii's
Castle, p. 209.
Local Hist.
ii.
BORDER SKETCHES AND FOLKLORE.
Lambe
met with
I once
enchanted toad
331
a person
at
plot
my
has interwoven
communi-
who
with his
it
own
it
a long time
nearly as
ago
it
is
Once on
found there.
Bamburgh
Castle
a time
residence
the
Avas
of a
a toad;
beyond the
and
this
seas,
and changed
his fair
daughter into
made
agents,
The fond
the shore
was
off
spell,
and every
themselves from
by
the
At length he bethought
on
the
embarkation
the
vessel
it
Immediately
of the witches
sailed, as if self-moved,
Lambe's version
illustrates this
more
fully:
"
They
And
* There was no
story.
set her
on the
rown-tree
of silk so fine,
sea.
" interposition of
a fairy "
in
my dm ft
of the
332
" The
qiicGii
To
look'd out at
licr
bower window
;
silken sails
Where
Aided by the
Index_,
1st vol. of
the
there
is
rown-tree wood."
which, however,
is
summary of the
Durham may be
Lawe of Hart, co. Durham,
compiled.
1582, Allison
Norton Church.
Durham, once
in
^^
of
resorting to Allison
death of Nicholas
in
This impostor
to
parochial chapelry of
St.
Andrew
in
Newcastle:
^M 650,
21st
mor
333
for Aviches.
]\Iargnt
Isab'
Brown, Margrit
Moffit,
for stellin
of silver
spownes,
Pootes."
At
Marie
3s. 4d.
into
them
him
Scotland, where
(Brand).
it
is
satisfactorj^ to
know he was
to
to
fled
hano-ed
At
for
5s."
the assizes at
w^ife
Thompson
(Sykes).
i.
pp. 391,
Church.
by James
241-261).
truth in
it
question, however,
334
been
is
spoken of by
at
side of the
to a
poem
in 1807,
and cattle," but ere he had com" she had long breathed her last." The scene of Robert
posed
it
Davidson of
was
by the
told
poem,
]\[orebattle's
'^
late
Its natural
castle, certainly
crown of rock,
cairn on the edge of the fell," but the author in his notes does
it
was
entitled
Edinburgh
lished in
reference
to
little
book,
18mo.
cases of witch-burning at
estate of Hartrigge,
This
situated.
Beggar-Muir on the
last
victim
is
Margaret Stothard, a poor old woman belonging to Edlingham, waSj 22nd Jan., 1682-3, delated for witchcraft and charming before Henry Ogle, of Edlingham, Esq. The depositions
elicited
mancy.
several
To John
]\lills,
at night,
yeoman
at
Edlingham
came something
Castle, while
in a blast of wind,
which, pressing him over the heart, emitted cries like those of a
cat
was
fit,
during which
it
required several
from paying his rent, he had occasion to ride past her door, when
a flash of light crossed " over before him, and as he thought
went
to
tcrrorstruck
for
''
upward on
his head,"
and
his
^^
ward,"
335
This
this
woman was
like to
break her
back, and press out her heart, and continued in this condition
till
she
next
died
''
My
Lady
who was
the dairymaid
by
this to be occasioned
Margaret promised
it
''
make
to
on the subject
all
to
make experiments
still
to
it
and
this
that
the
some
ill
it
In-
why
that
*'
salt
said to this
to
this
when they
and
their backs,
Informant refusing
to
little salt
in
would then giye her a piece of Rowntree wood, and bid her
take that alwayes alouix with hir
when
336
was
restored,
and
slie
for using
it,
to pay Margaret
" for hir soe mending or charming of the said milk, and would
it."
little
little
it,
it
was charmer's
dues_,
but she
Her
gave Margaret a
fleece of wool, to
the result being that after that " they had their milke in very
common formula
do that,
if their
in such
would neer
It is
be tried
name
of
in
at the assizes in
and
cliaro-ed
^'
with
felonious
the
killincr
1.9
of
July,
Mabell
his
In 1711
Littlehoughton, Northumberland,
houghton.J
* Milking the
230.
f
X Mickleton
MSS.
in Hid., p. 36.
ii.
pp. 33-36.
The
belief in witchcraft
March
the obituary
"
the following
of 90, a
Among
died liard.
Chronicle for
337
last
it
Hills.
overmatched her, for they not only dismantled the house, but
" blew up the hearth-stone.^^
In a list of the inhabitants of Wooler about 1782, written by
James Jackson from recollection in 1837, I find mention of
*^
Jenny Hardy, a reputed witch," as living near Padge Pool
its
both
very
low-roofed
and
are
now
removed.
An anonymous
who
writer,
up
were prevalent
at that period,
had been
^^
initiated
perfect adept in
by
all
his
"
my walks which
some calamity.
my
The writer
awful predictions of
murderous
ruffian."
"
My
case
was by no means
singular.
II.
338
fire
woman was
we having
time befel us
many
all
the
little
long suspected
accidents which
poor old
foolish freits
and
in short,
we were
Mr. Raine
is
trial cases
there
Durham
much good
money.
at the
arrested, examined,
at
tlie
to
s.
d.
.040
witches
Given to them
To
at
imprisoned,
In
so fortunate.
.......
......
in the Tolebouth,
Durham
A grave
for a witch
St.
339
coffin."^
Notes of Possession
in Books.
In a copy of Sir John Skene's Regiam Majestatem, Edinburgh, 1609, that had belonged in 1708 to Sir James Calder,
of Muirtoune,
who was
November, 1686,
By
The
mine
is
nyne I
leters
Calder
is
you show.
a leter bright.
first is J,
The next
ye would know,
if
will
in all
mens
sight.
James Calder
" Sir
1708
James Calder
years.
Mourtone
of
is
Amen."
" Hear
is
But doth
in
it
contain."
who
Gordon,
contains another
rhyme
in
an ancient hand.
And
in
my
I pray to
And
God me defend,
God wits send,
misrie
God my hand
bring
It
my
to
mend,
Gateshead.
Arch. jElian.f
n.s., viii.
340
New
Some
To request a
light
Northumberland
very bad omen.
At
up her
fire
ISTew
Year
North
in
is
to cover
Year's Observances.
would kindle
it
in the
to
be obliged
morning.
to
Her
evil
from
St.
Eome
take
on
fire
fire to
is
condemned about
New
thing."
lucky
sweep any
to
it
i.
Nor was
9.)
New
it
it
nor throw
was customary
to
up before the
New
Year's advent.
it
While
careful
thus of
and
glass in
hand was
foot a person
encounter.
To
On
fortunate.
that
day
to
meet as
first-
salt
especially heinous on
New
is
at
times
all
Year's day.
New
unlucky,
but
it
is
West
p.
160.
''
341
ship in
tide, survivals
Wark
inhabitants.
On New
was
of these wells
their being
of the Well
et
seq.,
the
'
who
by the
visited
the
the
Fopular Antiquities^
[see Brand's
refers to
in
called
villagers
what was
take
first to
vol.
this
New
Year.
is,
hope of
^
ii.
Flower
p.
the
366
first
I have heard of
one aged crone, who had the reputation of being uncanny, and
concerned in forbidden devices of witchcraft, endeavouring to
anticipate her rivals
by going
midnight hour,' so as
to
was
the witching
my
air.
by casting
an offering
came
At
the Croft-foot
in vain
when
Well
at Birtley (formerly
New
who
would
it
find that
should
retained
first visitant
Wark
of the well on
fill
its
freshness
New
the whole year, and also brought good luck to the house in which
it
remained.^'
342
Midsummer Boxfires.
The Rev.
festivals
Gr.
or bonfires of the
summer
until recently
summer
at the
solstice
fire
Old Mid-
farm as quickly as
made by two
men
and
this
fire,
years
element of
fire/^ *
The Rev.
on Whalton and
Naturalists'
its
Vicinity, written
Club {Proc,
Midsummer's
Whalton,
for
the
in a paper
Berwickshire
it
was
formerly the custom of the inhabitants^ young and old, not only
of
villages, to collect a
around
when
it,
it
was
set
on
fire
it
smoking
was consumed.
their pipes
There can be
and drinking
little
doubt
that this curious old custom dates from a very remote antiquity."
"'*
Archaeologia ^liana,
n.s., viii. p.
by the
73.
villagers,
he said,
"was
lighted a
little to
313
"The
bonfire,"
it.
Friday Unlucky.
were super-
painters, Newcastle,
observers
stitious
Day
They were
days.
unlucky
It is
time on a Friday
and Friday
a bargain on.
Sailors reckon
Sunday
best
is
tlie
day
is
occupancy of a house
term-
to sail
An
on;
emigrant
In Northumbeidand
unhicky
it is
to cut hair
at
buy or make
on a Friday, or
rhyme
Man
on Monanday morn."
p.
237
On
editions
of Ausonius
Arch'
at the
end of the
uE liana,
uhi sup.
344
Cypride crinis
(nails
on Friday)"*
In Westmoreland, " there are few country people will begin
making
If they
commence hay-
an unfortunate termination.
it
will
It is
have
it
will
At Wooler
people would
is
it
the same:
^^
tell
Barring-out Day.
On
this
Newcastle,
May
a teacher's
life
I shall preserve
there. J
it,
as
who
nearly in
it
many
it
dated
is
18th,
which
now
although
among
men
month
in
day in which
all
schools broke
to
up
On
the year.
general
the
that
Mr. Pearson on
Saturday Journal,
\ Mr.
was worth
vol.
all
the rest of
Superstitions
i.
p.
i.
of
p.
the
girls
2d.
''
each,
AVestnioreland, &c.,
London
130 (1841).
IG. &7,
the
Div.,
i.
Hills."
345
To
defaulters
the
this
With
this
money
strong beer was procured, wherewith the scholars regaled themselves until they
liquor,
when
the master
was mobbed and turned out and the door locked on him.
parley then took place as to the
number of
play the
days'
children were to have, nor was the dominie admitted again until
the terms were settled and he had consented to forgive
them
for
When
it
is
had
so strong
it
may
an objection
do not profess
naturally be asked
to
to trace the
why
a lengthened recess
custom back
still
run on
the master
Though
hazard a conjecture that the social manner in which schoolmasters were in those times usually engaged was not without
its
It
was
many
scanty,
friends
and
and
as
money accruing
to the
relations,
him
to
make
in the vicinity.
In
among
his
own
an early return
how long
his stay
was protracted.
[Mr.
that
if
the
schoolmaster had
and
it
346
was the waste of precious time, even though the days were then
of the briefest.]
Mr. B. goes on
into practice:
Edward
in the
On
which he ever
in.
On
little
made
be
assemble
to
had he
most prudent
it
to
to accede to
In
In
this
Grammar
[At Alnw^ick
School,
Memoirs^
vol.
i.
At
Andrew's day.
is
in his
rarely
it
more than
some rural
a single day.
schools,
The
contri-
is
ii.
was observed on
In
The
is
An'
if
347
to this
If
No.
Here comes
2.
Goliah, Goliah
I,
Nos.
No.
The game,
1.
Alas
1.
the game,
sir,
alas
my
name,
hope to win the game.
not within your power
side, I
sir, it's
less
Round
is
my
by
pistol
and
kill'd
my
only son
One
No.
Yes
The
3.
No.
1.
No.
3.
No.
No.
3.
No.
1.
No.
3.
here
am
I,
Johnny Brown,
How
to be the best
came you
By my travels.
Where did you
travel
Doctor
town
What
Anything.
cure a dead
man
No.
1.
Can you
No.
3.
slain champion,
The
in the
he
is
resuscitated.
and
and says
fight again.
348
Eow-rumple,
in old
my
old hat.
little
actors,
off to
Verses used
in
Berwickshire.
heart of gold
1 drew you for
I
thou love
my
of
Valentine
mine,
rest,
my very
best.
And
blue.
are
is
My
love to you,
heart and
Your
love
hand
may
my
friend
no end.
The ring
is
You and
I shall be a pair.
Some draw
a kiss.
is
my
you
this.
valentines
by
is
square,
lot,
And
The
ring
And
And
is
you take
it
in
my
good
my
friend
part,
heart.
"
349
to
Groom
Ann
''
to
last-
Ann
hundred of the
the six
Balaklava charge,"
Kern-rhymes
On
Northumberland.
in
field,
''
A kern,
A kern,
For Mr.
And
It is usually recited
company.
The
a kern, a heigh-ho
a kern, a heigh-ho
B.'s corn's
well shorn,
we'll
by the
folloAving
a'
specimen of
it
Wansbeck
rhyme
We
bless the
is
ripe
and shorn,
Shouting a kern
ahoa
In Glendale an abbreviated
in use
is
had
call
a kern
ahoa."
350
to
be regularly frequented by
One man,
it
the
on the
When
water.
reflection
wooded
down
struofo'lino;
broke
fair)
laid
upon a high
stone,
still
conspicuous on the
Wooler
Mill,
The
vowed revenge on
all
this retaliation.
The town
Old
also
was believed
to lie
under a
would mutter
fulfilled,
''
to
that a race, of
bad weather
of Jean Gordon,
will
drowned in
retri-
bution worse than frowning skies, and imagined that they had
spells of
participate
Wm.
J. H., in
rest of the
^*c.,
edited
by
Denwick.
Denwick;
351
wick feasted
'^
rhyme
"Alnwick
feast
the
Had-away
is
Hist, of Ahiivickj
ii.
p.
Tate's
376.
Games.
All the ordinary
games of
football, handball,
droppy-pocket-
is
it
called
in
Easter, Whitsuntide,
tide,
holidays.
Not
far
one of the
tree,
from Ferniherst
Castle, a
last
Alnwick on Shrove-
at
and near
to
is
when met
says, a cold
is
a ball-playing
rhyme
" Stottie
bairns
am
to a handball
by
p.
115,
and
all to
me,
I to hae?
many
judges of
How mony
Addressed
which capons
for the
there
collation, of
was provided
dainties,
girls,
who suppose
"
!
it.
352
Keppin Well.
Glanton 1ms a famous well with imaginary salubrious
It w^as the
common
lies
qualities.
am
mary
weakly children
to
told that
in blankets
it
'^
kepped"
their turn in
carrying home
was a great
in
summer
refreshing waters.
having to be caught or
*'
water
It
its
it
it
in the
morning to take
The
old generation
been ascertained of
late years,
Callaly Castle,
for their
it
has
rhymes
Camp on
made
all
The operation
is
has been revealed, that within the area of the ancient encampment there are the foundations of a medieval building of an
camp with
preserved, having
still
till
lately
dOO
rubbish, and that they had also strongly rebuilt the walls of the
for materials to
It
is
been the
newly discovered
Castrum de Kaloule
'
the owners
in
New
Callaly "
fied in the
is
rings.
may have
Old Callaly
to a
edifice
made
execute
camp
more
at that period.
numerous
to
variations.
I have before
may
it
me
it
has become
materials for
be of interest to preserve in
a series.
(1)
p.
199,
workmen were
while the
hill,
little
every morning
the whole
them
to
impeded by supernatural
up
Build
There
it
it
will stand
VOL.
in
II.
at night
and down
in the day,
which causing
umbrian
obstacles,
and never
fa'.'
tradition
Gateshead
2 A
from an
ancient
North-
;;
354
Up
in the day,
and down
in the niglit
it
Popidar Rhymes,
The
^-c,
1858
first line, as I
" Callaly
Builded down
in the
George Tate,
W.
and ne^er
fa'."
Hist,
in
Shepherd's Shaw,
W.
Tomlinson's Guide
There
it'll
it
fa'."
p.
32 (1887).
There
L.,
it'll
it
''
Up
Set
it
Then;
Version at the
castle,
shall stand
1890.
and never
.
fa'."
355
When
boiling
Is
''
bad weather.
indicates
it
the Castle Hill and Lorbottle Moor, and clings to the top of the
This
hill.
is
east.
vras
mansion.
still
kail
pot,"
damp
import,
of similar
past^
but the
weather, an un-
o barometer.
failino;
Hob
is
by the continuous
The pot-holes
Goodfellow's or
visionary
bring
grain.
down
Hob
in the
cn.iarter
of Lorbottle
The
by
spates,
which
Another haunt of
was a
worn out
Moor.
Castle,
sort of
Brownie,
was
Holy
at
who
Hob Thrush
this sprite,
Island, in
to himself,
Henderson
He was
we
name
inclusive.
Hob
The
oldest
mention of him
is
35
Thrush, a goblin or
]nilllj)e,s is
If
Avith
spirit
See Cotgrave, in
fellow.
generally coupled
v.
Loup-riarou
i.
v,'itli
p.
453.
Hob-
Robin Good-
The
Tarlton, p. 55.
all
Lovers, 16-iO,
There
Edge,
is
p.
222.
a Hob's
in the dreary
swampy
Border
line
RowHOPE Wedding,
tradition of Ihe
[In Kidhand.]
still
lingers in the
at
Alwinton Church.
There was a race for the " Kail," when sixteen horsemen rode
for the prize, Rowhope being seven miles from Alwinton Church,
among the
The number of
far
Windy
Gyle.
which gave
the local
rise to
it
saying,
filled to
the door,
D.
D. Dixon's
Elsdon.
An
''
Mr.
to a native, is
W. W.
" Curlew
Eo-o-s
to
Cold Elsdon."
306,
p.
siijs
Whatever
it
the
village
may
be
OO
popularly called
is
winter,
in
has a
it
background of
''
but there
hills,
is
a cleugli behind
its
by
famous
One
its
lour/^ he wrote,
of
its
'^
^'
winter temperature.
keep
to
Dodgson^
me from
being
frozen to death, for, as Ave keep open house, the winds enter
Hexham
poet,
for visitors
to creep into
bedittles
j^roverb
bed
this
The
to one."
entertainment
hospitable as a visitor
are as
is
Experto
comforts."
crede.
J.
H.
called the
at the
''
Hall^
to
was
Morpeth
fiercely
He
died in 1863.
HowiCK
L At Lowick,
Hoi.E.
if
the
wind in summer
is
in
When
6d8
as if
it
on
face
its
3.
become
vivid, rain
is
shaking corn.
certain.
is
Faws^=
Gypsies.
Whittixgham Fair.
Are you going
to
Whittingham Fair ?
thyme
Remember me
to one
who
lives there,
make me
a cambric shirt.
Parsley, &c.*
or needle work.
wash
it
in
yonder
well.
Parsley, &c.
Where
fell,
it
on yonder thorn.
Parsley, &l:
Which never
Adam
was born,
'"'
in ful
359
Now
he
asked
lias
me
questions three,
Parsley, &c.
I
hope he
answer as
^Yill
many
for
me,
For once
Tell
him
to find
me an
he was, &c.
acre of land,
Parsley, kc.
Betwixt the
salt
Tell
him
plough
to
it
And
sow
it all
Tell
him
to reap
it
And
bind
When
it
tell
him
to
come and
he'll
have his
shirt.
For
D.
D.
Dixon's
Tractate
on
The
once, &c.
Vale
of
Whitdngham,
*'
Apparently a Jacobite
Scott's
Memoranda
toast,
preserved
among
Sir AValter
George Collingwood of
John
John
360
Hall of Otterburii,
1715-6.
were participators in
the
J.
H.
An' Tynemouth
'11
Guide
gyen."
is
Tynemouth,
to
p. 42.
^'
fewer quarters
the globe
were
''
'*
Roosha,
Ibid.
Northumbrian
Durham
o^
greeting,
salutation
'^
What
^11
is,
"
What
''11
you
you stand."
awd man in
An' who-o-rl'd him ower
t'
dee,
a barra,
the quay."
Ibid.
remarkably
is
a large
block on
sandstone
animal
it
is
Kim side
supposed to
represent.
At Hauxley, on
worth, bad weather
Park, which
lies at
the
is
Northumbrian coast
soutli
from Wark-
foretell
is
very
bad weather
a night or two before, and the blast comes out of the direction
North Shields.
BORDErv SKETCHES AND FOLKLOPvE.
may
''
arises,
361
heard the wind
Mar
On some
fishermen.
sort before
bad weather.
them "greasy
brine
over.
all
When
Island
is
nights there
'^
is
o'
fire" of this
spots," or smooth-looking
M.
vast
spaces, dappling
it is
the
H. Dand.
Holy
Ibid.
"
Debdon Dirt.
The
coal at
Debdon
Colliery,
Debdon
It is
Dirt."*"*
now
it
was stigmatised
as
disused.
Scotland.
in Tynedale,
Edward
I.
made
the disrupture.
fief
There are
On
e.g.
still
till
portions of the
Tyne England
is
still
The Highlands.
The Highlands
Cheviot rano'e.
at AVooler is often
the
name given
to
the
THE DEXHAM TRACTS.
362
The Cobbler
is
the West
ix
the Carter
the East.
in
is
Carter Fell
whence the
rivers
is
a prominent
member
of
arise.
Cutty Soams.
Cutty Soams was a coal-pit Bogle, a sort of Brownie, whose
was
disposition
sometimes
sionally
man
to
mischievous,
purely
but
he
condescended
He would
occa-
or deputy viewer
*'
wooden
trams underground. It was no uncommon thing in the morning, when the men went down to work, for them to find that
Cutty Soams had been busy during the night, and that every
pair of rope-traces in the colliery had been cut to pieces.
By
pit at
At Callington
fell
Pit,
Kelson, and soon after two men, the under- viewer and the over-
man
one strand.
fired a
was
to the
bottom of the
pit,
owing
but
killed
to be
As
to this
all
by the damp.
it
that Nelson
it
had come
Monthly Chronicle^
BORDER SKETCHES
SiiiLcoTTLE Blue
Of anotlier
xVND
363
FOLKLORE.
May
name was
Blue-cap.
Sometimes the
and
settle
on a
full coal-tub,
air
working.
as those of
an ordi-
him
pocket a stiver
Blue-cap
left
if
If they were
would not
it."
series
better
B.
"
You
The
Ton
was
^'
is
o'
Hexham
Lang unkenned
H.
first
J.
'^
He
"
Hexham."
second,
^^
Naebody
" Once more round Jarrow Slake, and then Til be done."
364
"
My
That
is
method of
some work.
doino:
up
it
it is
of his relations.
"
When a
it
Bamborough-
which bring
so
much
this county.
[This
is
''
I think
shire.
wet to
^N'o
It's all
do not know
ower
if this is local,
Jack's weddin"
it
beyond the
county.
" Gannin' folks are aye gettin'."
o-ano-ino; fit,"
''
What
much
&c.,
is
up.
this
"
It
means, "
You
of the mark."
"
That
so
it is
is,
You
can
make
I have given
indifferent to
you
my
advice,
mu what becomes
me."
of the
[)j'oject.
it,
He
"
This means,
Only
five
He had
'
buff
'
nor
stye.'
'
"
no suggestion as
I can offer
expression.
calving.
''
neither said
365
common
to its origin.
An
elderly
woman
immediately asked
if
we had been
moment she
calved.
I have
it
to
land.
it
scarce, to shut
The peasant women believe that the " black and white
puddings " made at a pig-killing w^ill certainly burst while
boiling if the cook does not, Avhen
each
putting
to
it
string of
is
or had within
was
killed
my
when
recollection, a curious
the
moon was
waning*,
salt.
R.
G. Huggup.
Neat's Fire.
Huggup
IN'eat's
worms
in the throat.
It
cattle,
a disease
south of the
in
mouth of the
0(j6
arrangement as
fire
to the order in
to
use
an
to
The
it.
farm agreed
at a certain
upon, and the cattle were then shut up in the straw-barn, wliere
the fire
for
some time
after
which
forward
to
this clay
worms
with dread of
many
If
deaths
among
itself to a practical
went out
the herd.
it
commend
see
}'ear
much
is
When
loss
from
something
to
^'
Xeed
Fire.''"'
XXI.
PLAXT LORE
traffic
for the
frequented countrv
less
ever-fresh-
ments over
their
elastic
sod, cheer
the spirits,
by
nowhere
there a
also
for
is
the
spring
how
;
there the
laughs out in
brightest
demure daisy
the
sunshine
organization
con-
of openino-
rosy
lips
and
heaven's
of
first
azure
and
there
the
Amid
his
Can Imagination
boast,
like these
"
among
and
368
and
it is
true that
its
its
more
for
vet
among
the greens
"
;
they are
pretty objects
its
it
companions
brilliant
by the breeze.
ingly, ])lack,
and tapering
bloom wears
off,
The
but erects
to the point;
cylindrical,
itself as the
some variety
in the size
its fast
this
expanding
florets.
and stamens.
last, like
There
is
in the broader
its
filaments
those of grass,
new race
with a
of
all
that
or one leaf or
Xone
knew
we know
of them
and attempted
his
estimation
may
not admit
compared with
to
its
it,
claims as a flower,
what are
"
''
Or
But toys
sort of boys,
meant
their classifica-
them.
"
?
" roses,
369
PLANT LORE.
for
from
mimics
heads
Its
''
and go and
other,
lie
Two
One then
Whether
it.
his
at -vvhlch
each
challenge
select
behead
heroes
little
must
successful or not, he
to the risk
It
is
in turn
to
submit
and
them
loses
the fight.
Kemps.
''
'Twas on the
Of
left
sickles spoke
And
W'
is
commencing war,
And
And
bore away
from side to
side,
was
And
kempers
life,
strife.
join.''"
Story's Harvest.
But
''kemp,"
descent
"
sayeth
and
in
the
Verstegan,*
olden time
Is
word
signified
of
^^
noble
a champion,
or
a one."
In Anglo-Saxon cempa
is
VOL.
TI.
2 B
370
kempe
is
a giant
The Cimbri
struck terror into their enemies, not less by their fighting quali-
than bj the
ties
name which
The
of the brave ". *
"
"
our kernp or
the Compeador
proudest title of the Cid was
kemper in the Spanish idiom. " Compeador is a term hardly
were
they
kempers,
''
bravest
the
most
answers, excites
I'eadily
feeling
which
thrills
Compeador.' "
Sir
word
little
champion/
which
to
the
James Kempt
at AVaterloo,
The
Swedes
call
contend or struggle.
*'
of Scotland
^'
word
^'
Cock-fighters "
is
also
our
In some parts
is
kantpa, to
sometimes
is
kemp-seed" of Jamieson.
Soldiers "
it
In the
the term
pit-vil-
for i\\Q
liwell);
"
Plardheads,'"'
Lancashire (Brockett)4
in
it
been
the
its
title
does
It
of
''
Herba martis/'
for
it
i.
p.
373
and Ruddiman
Sibbald's Glossary.
f
''
Kemp,
soldier."
the
surname of
man,
that
is,
in
it is
Phrysins in J. Banhin's
TJist.
Plantaj-vm,
iii.
English,
old
p. 162.
p 505.
''
Cocks
"
371
PLANT LORE.
liold this to
it
continues Culpepper,
^^
Neither,"
is
it
cures."
It
in
Two
by means of kemps.
were taken
spikes
in full bloom,
and
One
both spikes
them twae
love between
w^as
not
'*
to
''
il
The
run smooth."
for since
it is
little
in retarding
influence
similar supersti-
Calendar^ p. 49
"
Now young
And from
girls
move
Oft making
'
love-knots
Oi blue-green oat
or
in the shade,
'
wheaten blade
Which
From
And
They
Then
if
for a while,
tries to
gain
an hour,
And
Bloom
as
it
P.
'
372
From
374,
p.
i\l
iss
appears that
it
indifferently
three
the
to
""
i.
applied
Centaurea
of knap-weed,
species
is
and scahiosa
all of which agree with ribwort
having hard heads or " knaps/' which is Gerard's expression
cijamis, nigra,
in
for the
what
Love,"
weed we can
for
is
Guihrum
in
the
^^
Flower of
Bertha,
])rince,
And
Aymund,
a Danish
prisoner.
many branches on
a stem
gem
]\[ay grasp,
As
It has
no name
The
rest,
For
'tis
Which
^'
although
its shai)e
it
to
wot of
but, above
should be styled
it
unlike-.
'
The
flower of love
Young Waddie, on
summer's eve.
See
I these flowers of
bloom bereave,
And
That
bud again
'
^'
PLANT LORE.
They parted as young lovers part,
With many a last good night and
''
'
'
kiss
And
'
'
'
He
arms.
in his
caught her
'
one.'
We
And
is
meet,
!
'
bud again
relic
Two
flowers selected
lay,
away
'
Nor
is
vest
But
'
of ribwort.
are these the only mysterious properties
It
Bannatyne
Thus runs
in the vicinity of
bound him
is
Litill gaist, I
conjur the.
and larie,
God, and Sanct Marie,
First with ane fischis mouth,
With
lierie
Bayth
fra
An
With
And nvne
knokis of windil
strais.
North Berwick.
3 7 J:
And
Tlien after
The
conjuratioiin,
tliis
And
down
thair efter
soun,
lye,
And
it
it is '^
Dods."
It
will
As mnckle
mige amaist."
as a
^^
"^
in
" Curl-Doddies
is
is
Carl-Doddies
^^
in
Forfarshire, as I
Skylark" {Foems,
"
From yonder
Among
I
field
258)
where
it
into his
in-
Hymn
sits
thy mate
saw thee
With
p.
am
"
rise,
Right
o'er
In Ber-
"'
"
Dod "
is
name
Lastrea Filix-mns)
6.
Quod
My
he,
my
claver,
hinny-sopps,
Be
Orkney
in the south of
ii.
in
my
my
curie
sAveit
of
Wowing,
370
dody
possody,
by
Evergreen,
375
PLANT LORE.
" Curly
north of England.
'^
obvious enough
is
may have
and which
still
remains
hemp, Carl-tangle.
in
had
it
language,
in the old
The
diminu-
Then we have
without horns.
But the
plant.
"Dolde"
likelihood
''
German,
in
is
that
is
it
the
same term
as that
Thus we have
hills.
Duddo (Dodd, and A.S. hoey
Dodd
Ilderton
in the Cheviots;
a height) in Xorth
ton
Durham, and
Doddington and
lington,
Dodd End
its
in Alston parish,
Dodd and
the
Dodd
Hill in the
'^
in
Northumberland
in
Lammermoors
the
of
We have
be
its
among
originated
metaphorically applied
to
redoubtable occu-
to lop as a tree,
cowed
The family
the Border
to
cattle,
hills. "^
which might
knob-headed
In this sense
Belton
Dodd near
name
Stanning-
it
to
be dodded.
Soop
my
my
biddiu'
my midden
t/ie
Folks of
p. 43.
".
Shit- Ids, p.
41.
376
and then
circumvolutions
Moreover,
As
The number of
position.
its
is
P'ull of
a healing herb
tion "
recover
is
this
"
to
left
it
to stop the
lips,^^
Slan-lus,
healing-herb,
i.e.
wounds. ^
The
sickle-hurts.
Irish
and
reapers
apply
greatly
it
bruised
vaunt
its
to
fresh
merits for
thus Shenstone's
It is
In Ayrshire P. major
From
P. lanceolata.
''plantain
speare''s
plantain
but Dr.
Bom
"
its
is
thus employed;
Galloway
it
is
leaf" appears
plantain leaf
to
Drummond makes
Your
in
is
it
the ribwort.
''
When
this
principles
* Another
Gaelic
name
equivalent
to
the
above
is
Lus-an-t-
slanuehaidh.
t In Yorkshire, as I am informed, it is believed that the
plantain leaf may be beneficially applied fresh to any hurt in the leg.
377
PLANT LORE.
understood.
little
produced
that the
this
good
wound
used.
The
of the
wound
each other
to
was the
Dioscovides and
Pliny,
is
The applica-
mentioned by both
hydrophobia
recommended
given
Roscrea
at
spoonful of
in Ireland
for a
terrier
all
the
others
same thing
find the
a table-
a dog)
every
wound
until
life
for
^'
:
in
(arnoglossos)
juice
the
we
century
plaintain
his
died
healed.
it
sev^Ji
althougli
who were
bit
they had
bv a mad
immediate
recourse to sea-bathing.^^ f
it is
in
said to
answer well
Wales, where
fertility in districts
bare
for
by some
roots
i.
p.
it is
much used on
the hills
" Botanists, ^^
rock."
Hushandrijy
its
continues
the
better than
little
writer
of British
its qualities,
and by others
it is
"^
i.
to
p.
Bvtany,
177.
p. 24:6.
378
the Alps
or
clover"^
Alcliemilla
However, the
'^
(Meum
ment
grows
It
or
"
2:)lant,
first) is
esteemed the
Riz/"*
the composition
second
Alps
at
with
along
Adelgras
alpina.
When sown
vulgaris.
also said to
is
it
is
mantle,
By
experi-
of Plantago
consisted of 2"37
silica,
acid,
3-51
6*11 sulphuric
090
magnesia,
^'
P. lanceolata^
call
Selegrese," use
it
for food.
Ribwort
bees, in
down
is
some
localities,
its
pollen
by the hive-
The bees
pull
upon the
face
is
scattered
speedily transferred to
it
is
The
is
of a
I once
Mecinus semicylindricus.
Cheshire Report,
I Berlepsch on the
Mountains,
\ J.
Soc,
T.
xi. p.
Van
p.
gall
black weevil
a small
I obtained
This,
of a
corresponding shape,
believe,
is
the
first
time
its
18!.
p.
Alps;
or Sketches of Lije
and Nature
in
the
350.
Way
and G.
H. Ogston
in
537.
379
PLANT LORE.
The upper
two-winged
Phytomyza
fly,
same
species that
is
so
The
P.
lanceolata
Melitcsa
by preference
select
this
Appendix
(in the
to
late
also
caterpillars
quoted
]\lacer
species of Arnoglossos
and of
This
Macer.
by Ovid, but
is
it
botanist
opinion
both
said Odo,
or Odobonus, a
name
(|), is
to
which
lanceolata,
leav^es
mentioned
this
Macer,
of Banchory
of three
Steropes Paniscus
Adams
Dr.
the other
lanceolata
May
P.
The
M. Athalia and
Cinxia,
one brood
alludes
the
to
lance-shaped form
the
name
of the
*'
quam
viilgo lanceolatam
foliis,
officinal
exists to the
The
Manual of
Stainton's
PuUeaey's Sketches,
British Butterflies
i.
p.
32.
lesser
and Moths.
380
or Quinquinervia, to distinguish
''
nervia.
It
Rib-grass
is
is
modelled on
Coles,
this.
p.
indeed, in
five strings
which
is
is
the one
is
o-rass,
The other
it
was
called
it
Cyno-
'^
:
Plantago
waybread
called
is
Rybwurte
''
in
or
Rybe-
whence
it
or oTeat waybread.
Rib-
William Turner,
of IJerhes,
called in Greke Arnoglossus.
crinis
rendered
is
Names
called
is
or
the Art of
many
places rybgrasse
"
;
well established in
Ilontsribbe,
have
for
it
it is
called Rupple-grass
Ripple-grass in
in Lanarkshire
In Donegal
Dog-rib.
i.e.
and Riplin-grass
The Welsh
They
call
"
;
crooked, or
They
it
may
call
it
be a contraction for
Harris^;
it,
Dr.
in
it
on the shores of
small variety,
is
common
Macgillivray
as well as a
* F?'tze Essays
in
vii. p, lOJ:.
Sliet-
381
PLANT LORE.
land.^
it
up
to
yards
Forfarshire, t
in
of
range in Yorkshire
is
highest
It
hills. |
is
widely
diffused
descend
to
is
throughout
Europe
it,
Its
it
in
the Azores.
variety of
It crosses
||
The European
we
find a
same
parallels.
^^
X Baker's
Travels,
II
North Yorkshire,
ii.
p,
p. 97.
p. 271.
271.
^ Meyen's Geography
''*
Ibid., p. 203.
of Plants,
p.
220.
p.
^89.
INDEX,
\_A^ames of ttvvns or other places,
note, are 2)lacc-namcs
Adder
Agnes
stones, 43
(St.)
Arran
Arrows,
elf,
descriptive
210
30
Baking custom, 45
Ball-beggars, a class of spirits, 78
Ball playing at Easter, 32
Ball-plaving rhyme, 351
Ballads,' 51
Balloon, alarm of peasants at, 276
Bamborough, fairy treasures at, 146
Bamborough Castle legend, 331
Banshee superstition, 79, 187
Barring
out, Q-S
at Newcastle, 344-346
Bargaining rhyme, 75
Baron, title of^ used in the north, 185
Barguests, a class of spirits, 77
Barrasford. standing stones at, 217
Basuto custom, 131
Bathing rhyme, 18
Battling stones, 69
for weaving, 246
Bay, oil de, cure for fairy, 141
Beamish, king's seat at, 130
Beans at funerals, 37
Beatmont, a measure contaming
a
quarter of a peck, 303
Beaumont River, abode of fairies, 144
Bede (St.), sacred well of, 156
Bees, witch in shape of, 299, 319
bring luck, 213
warned of owner's death, 213
Bell horses, 74
Bellasay, coach horses, in nursery
rhyme, 69
Bellister, the grev man of, 183-187
Castle, '188- 189
Bells of Brinkburn, 132-133, 134
Beltane, 92
Belts, to preserve from fairies, 140
Benton, sacred well at, 156
384
INDEX.
"
knave " in
cards, 38
at,
40
Bows and
INDEX.
Church dancing
in, at Christmas, 95
north side, burials on, 38 west
side, antipathy to, 38
known
Coban
109
Cheese, digestive powers of, 215
Cheese, baby's, divination by, 281
Cheese, eating of, by witch, 301, 302
Cheese-well at Minchmuir, 152
Chertsey, devil's stone near, 202
Cheshire, customs of, 7
Chests, oak, for keeping flour, etc.,
97
Children, future life betoken by first
month, 75
Child's first visit, customs at, 25
Chill ingham, Hurlstone at, 217
Chirton, near North Shields, haunted
by an apparition in silk, 177
Chittafaces. a class of spirits, 79
Chollerton, sacred wells at, 155
Christening custom, 42
Christmas observances, 25-26
rhymes, 37, 90-96
Day, ghosts not seen on, 76,
77, 91
chancel,
forth in, 40
funeral
feasts
marriage custom, 41
porch, divination in, 284
VOL.
II.
270
as
Church,
385
set
trees, 226-234,
Cock, crowing
286
Cock's stride, 99
stone, at Newminster, legend
connected with, 247
CoMingham Abbey, IjcUs of, 133
Collup ]\Iondav, 304
Colpixy heads^30. 111, 113
Colt-pixies, a class of spirits, 78
Conane's tomb. Callan Mountain, 210
Coniscliffe (High), near Darlington,
burials at, 38
maiTiaofe custom, 41
Contempt, to bito the glove or nail, a
sign of, 66
Contract, ancient rhyme to accompany,
76
Cor. the giant, 29
Corbie's stone, 224
Corbridge, tradition concerning. 62
Cork, Earl of, name for " ate of
diamonds," 38
Cornwall, holed stones in, 26.5-266
Corpse, exposure of, at the funeral
feast, 39
usages, 73
Corpse lights, a class of spirits, 79
Coupland Castle, white lady at, 167
Covin trees, 226-234, 287
Cow-milking superstition, 83
Cowies, a class of spirits, 79
Cows, holy stone used to protect, 43
Cradle Knowes, the abode of fairies,
148
Coffin,
2 C
386
INDEX.
55, 270,
271
Domestic
utensils,
" Battling
see
79
spirits,
for,'83
Durham
customs,
2,
3,
4,
14,
7,
21,
43
divination practices in, 289,
291
witchcraft
in, 332,
" Gainford,"
see
head "
Dust caused by fairies, 88
Dwafs, a class of spirits, 7^
Dykes, 34
Earache, cure
of,
333
*'
Gates-
294
bowing to the, 41
Easter Sunday superstition, 24
East,
38:
INDEX.
Elf hills, U3
Elf shots, 30, 112, 113
Elf-fires, a class of spirits, 78
Elf locks, 30
Elsdon feast, 356
Elves, a class of spirits, 78
Elwiu, river, abode of fairies, lii
on the borders,
239
Fortune telling, 298
Fox, rhymes on the, 107
Foxglove, a fairy flower, 30, 113, 149
Freiths, a class of spirits, 78
Fortification of towns
dish. 9
INDEX.
388
Garlands, virgin, 33
rush bearer's, 33
Garter, divination by, 279-280
used in charms. 29i-29o
red, charm for rheumatics, 48
Gateshead, pit villages near, riding
the stang at, o-6
Gaudy Day
at, 6
witchcraft'at, 338
Gaudy day, P.
Gelt, local rhyme, l-t
Glowworm,
299
Guy
of
Warwick, dragon
slain
156
name
derived from, 77
294, 297
bv,
to,
24
Northumberland,
drake-
stone, 256-257
Harden
river,
Bum
abode of fairies,
144
Hare, appai-ition in the form of, 164
witch in shape of, 299, 301, 328
proverbs on the, 108
Harehope Hill, fairies on, 143
Harry, Old, name for the devil, 276
Hartburn, witchcraft at, 337
389
INDEX.
adder
Irish, objections of
Hoppings, village, 3
Horuie holes, game of, 351
Horns, fairy, 114
Horse, offering of, to the church at
death of owner, 21
hair from the tail becomes an
eel. 29
holy stone used to protect, 43
witch in shape of, 301
power of seeing spirits by, 171
Horse-shoes, 62, 212
cure of distemper by burning,
338
Hounam church bell, falling of, 134
Houndwood, Berwickshire, a family
apparition at, 177
House charm, 41
Housesteads, fairies
at,
144
Hud. the
210
217
Hy
Brasail, Irish
belief
210
Hydrophobia, remedies
at, 135
concerning,
for,
220
Jack-in-the-Wads, a class of
Jacobite toast, 359
Jarrow rhyme, 360
well at, 156
spirits, 77, 78
Incubusses, a class of spirits, 77
Ireland, buried treasure in, 254
belief as to elf arrows, 224
dust
Ireland, fairies, cry of the, 84
caused by, 88
Imps, a class of
275
spirits,
78
Jedburgh Abbey,
13
258-261
Hurle-stane, near Chillingham,
to,
390
INDEX.
Knowes,
80
Low Sunday,
119
Lubberkins, a class of spirits, 79
Luck of Eden Hall, 112
Luck, wishing of, 326
Lutterworth, superstition at, 46
Lyke wake, 58
Maclears
of
Loch
187
Madcaps, a class of
Buy,
ancestral
spirit,
lies,
73
divination
by,
on
spirits,
78
St.
spirits,
79
Manx
fairy saying, 87
Marble playing, witches invoked in, 89
Mares, a class of spirits, 79
Alarkets, 29
Mark's (St.) eve, customs, 284
Marriage, omen
striking, 51
celebrations, 94
customs, 356 ; at Coniscliffe,
41
Dtn-ham, 43
dream
of,
a sign of death,
269
petting stone, 67, 213
NDEX.
391
Alerrvmen, 98
Middleton, British townlet near, 207
]Nridsummer bonfires, 34:2
tempt, 66
not pared on Friday, 337
Names, superstition concerning, 49
Nanny Bowler, spirit of the Skerne, 78
Nathan's Keeve, Cornwall, buried
treasure in, 255
Neatherd, town's, at Wooler, 167
Neat's fire, for cattle disease, 365, 366
Ned Stokes, name for " four of spades,"
Mince pies, 91
Minchmuir, cheese well
Need
cnshions,
eve, customs,
Midwife,
284
fairy, 139
_
152
at,
77
!Mockbeggars, a class of spirits, 77
Money digging, 62
fairy, 30, 112
finding of, 85
jSIoney Hill, near Gunnarton, 203
Montferraud, near Beverley, 26
IMonths and days, rhymes. 100-102
Moon changing on Saturday, 10
first, divination by, 281
man in the, 55
new, superstition, 21
ISIorden carrs, local rhyme, 14
]\Iormos, a class of spirits, 78
Morpeth, divination practices in, 289,
290
goblin,
77
Morven church,
Mosstrooper's grave, 67
Mountain
silky. 171
JNIouse,
witch in shape
Mulgrave
Castle,
of,
301
at
29
^Mummers' harvest, 3
Mampokers, a class of spirits, 77
Murce (8t.), tradition of, 134
to be barren, 23
corpse bleeding superstition,
38
fire, 50, 342
Nelly the knocker, spirit of a stone,
205
Neolithic implements found at Stenton, 151
Nettle rhym.es, 71
Newcastle, All Saints, burials at, 38
barring out at, 344, 346
charms
in,
41
Mushrooms,
Myddvai, physicians
Nacks, a class of
of,
294
spirits, 78
Nafferton, legends of, 190
at,
34
New
Year's
coflftn at,
247
Dav
customs, 24, 31
gifts, 33
observances, 340, 341
tide, 98-99
Nickers, a class of spirits, 78
Nickies, a class of spirits, 78
Nicknevins, a class of spirits, 79
Nightbats, a class of spirits, 77
Nightmare, a class of spirits, 87
Nightmare, holystone used to prevent,
43, 325
Nips, fairy, 114
Nipsey springs, forecast of weather
from, 48
Nisses, a class of spirits. 80
Nixies, a class of spirits, 79
Norfolk, customs, 11
Northamptonshire, divinations in, 371
Isorthumberland, customs of, 3, 8, 20,
21, 29,41,44, 348,349
trials
at
40
King's Dyke
49
Museum
at,
327, 336
Nursery rhymes, 53, 69
Nursery song, 27-28
Nutty-cock, an old term of endearment,
53
Oak Day,
54
392
INDEX.
Pregnancy
beliefs,
30
Proudlock's poems, 59
Proverbs, 57, 65, 75, 363-365
Puck, Irish allusion to, 87
Puck fists, 30, 113
Puck needle, 114
Puckles, a class of spirits, 79
Pucks, a class of spirits, 78
Puddening infants, 25
Pudding Gyve, 220
38
Quern
mill, 32
fairies,
INDEX.
River
.
spirits,
78
superstitions, 29, 4G
traditions, 51
144
Riving-pike, local rhyme, 14
Rivers, abode of
Road,
I'aiiie?,
fairies', at
Roads
attributed
Oldcambus, 149
to Michael Scott,
Sewingshields,
129
of,
King Arthur
244-256
at,
125-
Sex rhvmes, 70
117
ttiboos, 40
Shadows, a class of
Shag
77, 8o
Rocks, names
Roman
of,
157
burials, Go
remains attributed to
fairies,
144, 145
17,
54
Tvne
called.
361
marble playing, 89
regalia of. 111
Scott (Michael), the wizard, 116-119
Scrags, a class of spirits, 77
II,
79
78
spirits,
of
Sacrifice;,
Schoolboy rhymes,
School customs, 7
spirits,
a class of
foals,
VOL.
393
of,
78
INDKX.
394
spirits, 7S
Spurns, a class of spirits, 78
Stang:, riding the. 4-<i
Standing, lifting custom, 31
Stealing, a waniing of evil, 272
Stenton. near Duubar, tumulus at, l.')]
Steven (St.), day. 9.")
Stewart Hall (R Jthesav). curing stones
Spunks, a class of
Stolen
KU
221-223
Stones, ascurefor hydrophobia.
'
bloody, 60
customs or superstitions concerning. 18
fairies dancing I'ound, 143
fairv, 30. 143-145
holed, charm to prevent v;itchcraft.
325
huly, 43
inauguration. 150
legends concerning, 129, 107211,
21(;,
217
thunder, 45
38
Swaithes, a class of spirits, 78
Swallow, witch in shape of, 300, 31
Swarths, a class of spirits, 78
Swedish fairy legend, 135
clubs,'*
over-
Tailors, 51
Tansy
2(59
burning of, 48
and toes, prognostication from, 48
Tempest familv, legend connected with,
41
at. 22.-)
at.
Thames, abode of
a spirit, 42
Thirteen at table unluckv. 25
Th mias' (St ) dav, 92. 93
Thomas the Rhyiiier. 119. 120
Thrashing, warning of misfortune
during, 2<i7
Threeston Burn, 207-209
Through-the-needle. kc, game of, 351
Thrummj-, place-name derived from, 79
Thrummycaps, a class of spirits, 79
Thrush (disease), cure of, 293
Thumbs, doubling of, to prevent witchcraft, ^25
'I'hunderstone, 45
Thurses, a class of spirits, 78
Tints, a class of spirits, 78
Toad, daughter tiu'ned into, bv witch,
331
Toast, Northumbrian, 214
Todlowries, a class of spirits, 78
Toe-nail superstition, 24
Tompokers, a class of spirits, 78
Tom-thumbs, a class of spirits, 78
Tom-tumblers, a class of spirits, 77
Tooth, dream of, sign of death, 272
extracted, put into fire, 298. 299
Toothache, amber bead worn as cure
for, 83
charm, 9, 10
Topsham, family legend. 85
Towers, used for protection, 238
Treasure attributed to silkv sprite, 173
hidden, U'5, 200', 202, 203,
247-250, 254
Treasures, fairy, at Bamborough, 146
Tree (dreaming), at Bute. 286"
Trees, stretching across streams, haunt
of sprites. 174
hawthorn, fairies dance near,
136
Trenchers, wooden, in servants* hall, 33
Tritons, a class of spirits, 77
Trolls, a class of spirits, 78
Trows, a class of spirits, 79
Tumuli, attributed to the fairies, 151
Turf placed on dead bodies, 73
charm
jiudding. 44
INDEX.
Tutgots, a class of spirits. 7S
Tweed, river, spirit of the, 42
Twiiilaw, stone chair on, i;JO
Twins, boy and yirl, 30
Twiemouth, wizards cave at. \2o
'95
Westmoreland, customs
54, 91
342
witchcraft. 329
to the fairies,
146
Urchins, a class of
name
77
spirits,
for hedu-ehoi-s. 07
White
Valentine rhrmes,
Veal
.S4S.
840
40
hittingham place-rhymes,
81
Viri:in uarhinds, 33
vale, 234-244
AA'ife,
rhymes on, 37
rhyming, 16
AA^ill,
AAMlls, custon.s
AA'illy
in,
AVark Castle, 01
341
77
Warnings to relatives of death or misfortune, 266-273
Warts, cure for, by the seventh son, 274
Wassail bowl at Christmas, 8. 92
Water, south-running, as a curative,
at, 15.>,
spirits,
indicia
Cove, 220
AA'irrikows, a class of spirits, 79
AA'isemeu. practices of, 295-297
AA^itch formulae, 12, 13
AA^itchcraft. cases of, 160, 161,
attributed
of
beliefs.
AAltches.
proverbs, 21-23
AA^eaving on a battling stone, 246
AVednesday, the fairies' holiday, 86, 115
AA^eise, used by milkmaids. 142
AA'ell buried treasure in, 248, 249
near AA'hittingham, white ladies
at,
167
Alnwick. 40
352
Welsh
of Auldearn. 287
rhvmes relating
on
rites at
299-324
ill-
appear
324-339
Margaret
30
trials for.
luck. 338
to
!45
140
person carrying, sign
254
sacred well
noted from. 39
118
Warlocks, a class of
35!
AVausbeck
for
charming, 293
to,
81-84,
86
AVitches* Cairn, 334
AA^ooden dishes, witches
299, 301
AA^ooler, gipsies at, 349
guisarding
at,
riding
on,
215
40
AA'ord charms, 295
272
221, 341,
175
with brmes
of.
46
396
INDEX.
Yorkshire customs,
Yule cake, 25
candle, 25, 26
cheese, 25
day, 90
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