Notes and Queries
FOLK LORE MISCELLANIES:--Yorkshire Tradition--Custom on St. Thomas's Day--Custom on Innocents' Day--Marriage Custom at Knutsford, Cheshire--Folk Lore in Hampshire--Propitiating the Fairies--Cornish Folk Lore--King Arthur in the Form of a Raven--St. Clement's Apple Feast in Sta...
"The following is a literal copy of a sign conspicuously displayed in front of a small public-house in the village of Folkesworth,[4] near Stilton, Hunts. It contains as much po...
2. Part 2_Folk Lore in Hampshire._--In Hampshire the country people believe that a healing power exists in the alms collected at the administration of the sacrament, and many of them use...
3. Part 3"The Clergyman of a Town Parish, in which are several crippled persons, at present unable to attend divine worship, will feel very grateful to any gentleman or lady who will giv...
1. Part 1FOLK LORE MISCELLANIES:--Yorkshire Tradition--Custom on St. Thomas's Day--Custom on Innocents' Day--Marriage Custom at Knutsford, Cheshire--Folk Lore in Hampshire--Propitiating...
5. Part 5and therefore I could not agree with the common version "and that he lives for a brief space apart from its visitation;" erroneous, as I submit, from the adoption of Brunck's re...
6. Part 6THE MOST COMFORTABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT is HEAL & SON'S EIDER DOWN QUILT. It is the warmest, the Highest and the most elegant Covering, suitable for the Bed, the Couch, or the Ca...