{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/osc/osc02.htm","path":"neu/eng/osc/osc02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/osc/osc02.htm","text":"SECTION I. Superstitions and Customs Relating to Days and Seasons\n 1. Candlemas Day\n 2. St. Valentine's Day\n 3. Simnel Sunday\n 4. Maunday Thursday\n 5. Shrove Tuesday\n 6. Good Friday\n 7. Good Friday Loaves\n 8. Picking up Sixpences at Smithfield\n 9. Easter Holidays\n 10. Biddenden Cakes\n 11. Easter Eggs\n 12. Knutsford: May Queen and Morris Dances\n 13. Furry Dance--Helston\n 14. Baal Fire--St. John's Eve\n 15. Hock Tide\n 16. Garland Day at Abbotsbury\n 17. Ascension Day, \"Beating the Bounds\"\n 18. Ascension Day--other superstitions.\n 19. All Fool's Day\n 20. Lichfield Greenhill Bower\n 21. Lammas Day\n 22. Harvest Home: the Kern Baby\n 23. Halloween\n 24. The Fifth of November\n 25. Wroth Money\n 26. Christmas\n 27. Christmas Boxes\n 28. Yule Logs\n 29. Lucky and Unlucky Days\nSECTION II. Marriage Superstitions and Customs\n 1. The Engagement Ring\n 2. Kissing the Bride\n 3. Wedding Rings and Bride Cake\n 4. Bridesmaids and Best Man\n 5. May Marriages\n 6. Throwing the Shoe\n 7. The Dunmow Flitch of Bacon\n 8. Selling Wives\n 9. Christening Customs\nSECTION III. Divination and Omens\n 1. Dreams\n 2. Witchcraft\n 3. Divination by Books\n 4. The Divining (Dowsing) Rod\n 5. Palmistry\n 6. Astrology\n 7. Crystal-gazing\n 8. Colour Superstitions\n 9. Numbers\n 10. Amulets, Gems, Charms, and Talismans\n 11. Omens--Introductory\n 12. Looking-glass Omens\n 13. Stumbling and Falling\n 14. Spilling the Salt\n 15. Thirteen at Table\n 16. The Owl\n 17. Howling of Dogs\n 18. Ear Tingling\n 19. Sneezing\n 20. Spitting\n 21. Knife Superstitions\n 22. Sharks following Ships\n 23. Black Cats\n 24. The Cuckoo\n 25. Comets\nSECTION IV. Miscellaneous Superstitions and Customs\n 1. Holy Wells\n 2. The Horn Dance: Abbot's Bromley\n 3. \"Telling the Bees\"\n 4. The Death Bell\n 5. Vampires\n 6. Robin Redbreast\n 7. Drinking Customs\n 8. Yew Trees in Churchyards\n 9. Theatre Superstitions\n 10. Christening Ships\n 11. Horse Shoe Tributes at Oakham Castle\n 12. The Duty of Not Saving a Drowning Man\n 13. Playing Card Superstitions","title":"The Origins of Popular Supersitions and Customs: Contents","type":"page"}