A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions |
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Alfo almoſt alſo ancient Banbury becauſe Berks bread buſineſs cafe called alſo candle cauſe cheeſe Cheſh child cloſe corn croſs Cumb cuſtom defire Derb Devil Devonſh diſh dreſs Effex England Engliſh Exmore faid fame faying feems fellow fire firſt fiſh fome formerly fuch Fuller ſays Ghosts Glouc hanging hath hill horfes horſe houſe inſtances Kent King land leſs London maſter meaſure moſt muſt noiſe Norf Northumb obſerve old Saxon pariſh paſs paſſage perhaps perſons practiſed preſent proverb purpoſe reaſon reſemblance reſpecting ſaid ſame Saxon ſays ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſerved ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhew ſhoes ſhould ſhut ſignifies ſince ſmall ſome ſometimes ſpeaking ſpirits ſpoken ſtanding ſtate ſtay ſtick ſtiled ſtill ſtocking ſtop ſtory ſtraw ſtrike ſtrong ſuch Suff ſuppoſed themſelves theſe thing thoſe town uſed veſſel Vicar of Bray whence whoſe Witches wood word Yorkſh Yorkſhire
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Page ccxii - A Knight of Cales, A Gentleman of Wales, And a Laird of the North Countree ; A Yeoman of Kent, With his yearly rent. Will buy them out all three...
Page 53 - This knot I knit, To know the thing I know not yet, That I may see The man that shall my husband be: How he goes, and what he wears, And what he does all days and years.
Page cci - A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom...
Page 31 - ... charm, or sorcery, whereby any person shall be killed, destroyed, wasted, consumed, pined, or lamed in his or her body, or any part thereof...
Page ccxvii - More saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter, for, being so old a man, it was likely that he knew most of any man in that presence and company. So Master More called this old aged man unto him, and said, father...
Page ccxvi - DEVIL'S DAUGHTER'S PORTION: Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The Devil gave with his daughter in marriage; And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill; a saying occasioned by the shameful impositions practised by the inhabitants of those places, on sailors and travellers.
Page 53 - It is also a popular superstition that any unmarried woman fasting on Midsummer eve, and at midnight laying a clean cloth, with bread, cheese, and ale, and sitting down as if going to eat, the street-door being left open, the person whom she is afterwards to marry will come into the room and drink to her by bowing ; and after filling the glass will leave it on the table, and, making another bow, retire...
Page 31 - ... wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose; or take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...
Page ccxxix - Meadow, till all the butchers' dogs pursued one of the bulls (maddened with noise and multitude) clean through the town. This sight so pleased the Earl, that he gave the Castle Meadow, where the bulls' duel began, for a common to the butchers of the town, after the first grass was mowed, on condition that they should find a mad bull the day six weeks before Christmas Day, for the continuance of that sport for ever.
Page 6 - ... committed some injustice whilst living, cannot rest till that is redressed. Sometimes the occasion of spirits revisiting this world is to inform their heir in what secret place, or private drawer in an old trunk, they had hidden the title deeds of the estate ; or where, in troublesome times, they buried their money or plate. ( ') Some Ghosts of murdered persons, whose bodies have been secretly...