Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon Ingram, Patricia A Benoy, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * NO. 61.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{505} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Illustrations of Scottish Ballads, by Richard John King 505 The Red Hand--The Holt Family--Vincent Family 506 Vondel's Lucifer, by Janus Dousa 507 A Myth of Midridge 509 Folk Lore Miscellanies:--St. Thomas's Day--Black Doll at Old Store-shops--Snake Charming--Mice as a Medicine--"Many Nits, many Pits"--Swans hatched during Thunder--Snakes--Pixies or Piskies--Straw Necklaces--Breaking Judas' Bones 509 Local Rhymes and Proverbs of Devonshire 511 A Christmas Carol 513 A Note for little Boys 513 Similarity of Traditions 513 Pixey Legends 514 The Pool of the Black Hound 515 Popular Rhymes 515 Minor Notes:--"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde"-- Inscription on an Alms-dish--The Use of the French Word "savez"--Job's Luck--The Assassination of Mountfort in For folk Street, Strand--The Oldenburgh Horn--Curious Custom--Kite--Epitaph on John Randal--Playing Cards 515 QUERIES:-- Dragons: their Origin 517 John Sanderson, or the Cushion Dance; and Bab at the Bowster 517 Did Bunyan know Hobbes? by J.H. Friswell 518 Minor Queries:--Boiling to Death--Meaning of "Mocker"--"Away, let nought to love displeasing" --Baron Muenchausen--"Sing Tantararara Rogues all," &c.--Meaning of "Cauking" 519 REPLIES:-- The Wise Men of Gotham, by J.B. Colman 520 Replies to Minor Queries:--Master John Shorne-- Antiquity of Smoking--Meaning of the Word "Thwaites"--Thomas Rogers of Horninger--Earl of Roscommon--Parse--The Meaning of "Version" --First Paper-mill in England--"Torn by Horses" --Vineyards--Cardinal--Weights for Weighing Coins--Umbrella--Croziers and Pastoral Staves 520