Pendle Hill and its Witches 204 Witchcraft about 1654 206 A Liverpool Witch in 1667 206 The Witch of Singleton 207 Witchcraft at Chowbent in the Eighteenth Century 207 Killing a Witch 208 A Recent Witch, near Burnley 209 "Lating" or "Leeting" Witches 210 PART II. LOCAL CUSTOMS AND USAGES AT VARIOUS SEASONS. Church and Season Festivals 212 New Year's-day 214 Fire on New Year's Eve 214 New Year's Luck 214 New Year's First Caller 215 New Year's-day and Old Christmas-day 216 Auld Wife Hakes 216 New Year's Gifts and Wishes 216 Shrovetide 217 Shrove-Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday 218 Cock-throwing and Cock-fighting 218 Cock-fighting about Blackburn 220 Cock-penny at Clitheroe 220 Cock-fighting at Burnley 220 Shrovetide Customs in the Fylde 221 Lent.--Ash-Wednesday 221 Mid-Lent Sunday, or "Mothering Sunday" 222 Simnel Cakes 223 To Dianeme 223 Bury 224 Bragot-Sunday 225 Fag-pie Sunday 226 Good Friday 226 Easter 227 Pasche, Pace, or Easter Eggs 228 Pace Egging in Blackburn 228 Pace or Peace Egging in East Lancashire 231 Easter Sports at the Manchester Free Grammar School 231 "Lifting," or "Heaving" at Easter 233 Easter Game of the Ring 234 Playing "Old Ball" 234