Pentecost, 16th Sunday after, 250 Pentecost (See Whitsuntide). Persons bewitched, sixteen, 192 Philosopher's Mercury, 23 " Stone, 23 Pigeons' Feathers in beds, 268 Pilkington (Dame Jane), 273 Pimpernel, 71 Pork Pasties, 260 Prayer and Blessing on Eggs, 229 Prayer in Verse against Sir Ralph Ashton, 291 Predications (see Omens). Presents to Women in Childbed, 260 " to Infants, 262 Prestwich, Burying in Woollen at, 269 Principal or heriot at Ashton, 293 Prophet Elias, a fanatic, 138 Queen of the May, 246 Radcliffe, Burying in Woollen, 269 Radcliffe Tower, 51 Raising the Dead, 128; the Devil, 17, 81 Rent-boons at Denton, 294 Rents, Nominal, 280 Rheumatism, charms to cure, 75 Riding the Black Lad at Ashton, 289 Rings, betrothal or gemmel, 263; Wedding, 268 Robins and Wrens, 142 Robinson, Edmund, 195, 201 Rochdale Church, 89 " Tithe, Easter Dues, &c., 297 Rogation Days or Gang Days, 248 Rolleston, Mr., 131 "Rollison, Owd," 123-125 Roman Traditions and Superstitions, 5, 6, 18; Mythology, 13 Saint Cuthbert's Beads, 15 " John's Eve, 8, 46, 47 " Vitus's Dance, 87 Samlesbury Witches, 194 "Scrat, Old" (or Skrat), 90 Second-sight in Lancashire, 105 Services and Tenures, peculiar, 278 Sheep and Farms in Bowland, 300 Shoes, Old, for luck, 264, 268 Shrew Tree in Carnforth, 79 Shrovetide, 217; Tuesday, 218; Pancakes, _ib._, 258; Sports, 219; customs in the Fylde, 221 Sickness, charms to cure, 74 Simnel Cakes, 223; at Bury, 224, 258 Sitting-up Courtship, 264 Skriker, 91 Smithells Hall, 51; Marsh the Martyr, 135 Smithells, Manor of, custom, 280 Sneezing, 6, 68 Songs, Lancashire, about 1422, 288 Sparrows, 142 Spell, description of a, 177 Spirits of the dying and dead, 105 Spitting on money, &c., 69, 70 Stocks for the fingers, 283 Superstitions in Manchester in the 16th century, 168 Superstitions of Pendle Forest, 164; of East Lancashire, 165 Superstitions, popular, 153-157; Nineteenth Century, 164 Superstitious beliefs, and practices, 1; fears and cruelties, 167 Superstitious fear of Witchcraft, 182 Talliage or Tallage, 296; of Lancashire towns, &c., _ib._ Teacups, Omens from, 140 Teanlay, or All Souls' Night, 49 Tenants of Ashton-under-Lyne, 288 Tenures and Services, peculiar, 278 Thackergate Boggart, 52 Throwing the Stocking, 264 Toothache, charms to cure, 75 Touching for King's Evil, 77 Towneley, ghost and tradition, 57 Trash or Skriker, 91 Tree Barnacles, or Tree Geese, 116 Turning Bed after Childbirth, 261 Unbaptized Child, cannot die, 262 Urswick Much, Manor of, 284 Utley, hanged for witchcraft, 195 Vervain, to cure wounds, a rhyming charm, 76, 115; against blasts, 115 Victor Penny, 219 Vitus's (St.), Dance, 87 Waddow Hall, 171 Waitts, the, 257; of Manchester, 257; of Warrington, 258 Walton-le-Dale, raising the dead, 128