# Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850

Author: Various

Genre: Notes and Queries

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16404

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Notes+and+Queries%2C+Number+61%2C+December+28%2C+1850+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 t...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-61-december-28-1850-16404/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-61-december-28-1850-16404/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-61-december-28-1850-16404/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-61-december-28-1850-16404/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-61-december-28-1850-16404/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-61-december-28-1850-16404/chapters/6/index.md)