Spacious halls, 171. Spain, evil eye in, 320. Speaking trumpet, Kircher's, 198. Specific against epilepsy, 242. Spelling, Boone's, 33. Spellbound, 315. Spelling, vagaries of, 33. Spider barometers, 291. Spider's web, wonderful, 294. Spilling salt, 336. Spirit of Dundee, 242. Spitting for luck's sake, 343. Spontaneous combustion, 203. Sportsman, royal, 215. Stamp, Roman, 91. Statue of Memnon, 103. Strained politeness, 210. Strange instance of sympathy, 241. Strange legend, 229. Strasburg, curious custom in, 59. Stanching blood, 346. Striking parallel passages, 32. Watches, 89. With nettles, 236. Stomachs, hundred, 293. Stones, alligators swallowing, 282. Barometer, 157. Black, of Mecca, 92. Hell, 226. Magic rain, 203. Musical, 199. Perforated, 328. Salagrama, 334. Sleeping on, 336. Talismanic, in birds, 249. Stork, 265. Story of the dodo, 268. Strychnia, bitterness of, 303. St. Agnes eve, 234. St. Anthony's fire, 179. St. Cuthbert's beads, 193. St. Fillan's bell, 119. St. George's cavern, 165. St. Helena coins, 328. St. John's wort, 306. St. Patrick's day, 234. St. Sepulchre's bell, 121. Stumbling unlucky, 311. Stupid critic, 24. Subscribers, inducements to, 34. Subterranean Christmas bells, 120. Sugar, whitening, 134. Supernatural appearance at Holland House, 243. Superscription to a letter, 70. Superstitions, beard, 214. Bees, 239. Breton, 347. Birds, (see birds). Camel, 284. Caul, 312. Children, 345. Coral and bells, 190. Croaking of a raven, 250. Death-watch, 330. Cutting timber, 213. Eggs, 274. Geranium, 302. Hidden treasure, 164. House crickets, 330. Letiche, 226. Letter M, 161. Lily, 311. May dew, 231. Moon, 168. Number one, 323. Number seven, 325. Number six, 324. Patagonian, 312. Pin, 345. Pontius Pilate, 149. Rose of Jericho, 303. Rose at midsummer, 307. Rubbing with a gold ring, 341. Satanic, 231. Seventh son of the seventh son, 324. Spilling salt, 336. St. John's wort, 306. Whistling, 247. Wolf, 346. Supposed to be a genuine island, 18. Sundry rural charms, 331. Sun, temple of the, 105. Surnames, Puritan, 38. Swearing on the book, 172. Swift's Latin puns, 42. Swallowed by an earthquake and thrown up again, 175. Swallow drinks the king's health, 258. Sword, executioner's, 101. Symbol, physician's, 162. Talismanic stones in birds, 249. Talisman of Charlemagne, 91. Smuggler's, 341. Treacherous, 219. Tankard, Martin Luther's, 94. Tarring and feathering, antiquity of, 183. Tavern screens, 71. Tavern signs, primitive, 78. Tea, eating, 208. Temple of the sun, 105. Museums, first, 107. Tradition of the, 230. Tenacity of odors, 202.