Spy, I, exclamation, 531.
Squalls, weather-lore of, 95.
Stalking horse, 191.
Starling, 155.
Stars, influence on mundane events, 80;
heroes reckoned among, 82.
Statute-cap, 546.
Stephen's (St.) Day, hunting wren on, 501.
Sterility, 289.
Stigmatic, deformed person so called, 270.
Stocks, old punishment, 440.
Stool-ball, old game, 419.
Stoop, or swoop, term in falconry, 124.
Stover, fodder for cattle, 243.
Strappado, military punishment, 440.
Strawberry, 243.
Succubi, class of devils, 78.
Suicide, 290.
Sun, weather-lore of, 63-65;
dancing of, 63;
cloudy rising, ominous, 64;
red sunrise, 64;
watery sunset, 65;
supposed to be a planet, 62.
Sunday, fashionable day for weddings, 358.
Sunshine in March, 68.
Swallow, harbinger of spring, 155;
bird of good omen, 156.
Swan, sings before death, 156.
Sword, swearing by, 542;
dance, 430.
Sympathetic indications, 518.
Tailor, exclamation, 531.
Tailor's goose, name for pressing-iron, 118.
Tassel-gentle, name of hawk, 157.
Tavy's (St.) Day, 226, 304.
Tawdry lace, 325.
Tears, of the deer, 180;
crocodile, 176.
Teeth, superstitions relating to, 332, 333.
Telme's (St.) fire, meteor so called, 83.
Ten bones, name for fingers, 491.
Ten commandments, 491.
Tennis, 419.
Termagant, tyrant of miracle-plays, 313.
Tewksbury mustard, 232.
Theatrical lore, 546.
Thorns, legend relating to, 244.
Threshold, bride must not cross, 358.
Thumb, biting of, an insult, 492;
rings, 389.
Thunder, notions relating to, 91;
bolt, 91;
stone, 91.
Tick-tack, old game, 421.
Tiger, roars in stormy weather, 199.
Tire, term in falconry, 127.
Titania, fairy queen, 2, 3, 14.
Tilly-vally, exclamation, 531.
Toad, evil spirit likened to, 262;
changes eyes with lark, 134;
said to be venomous, 261;
stone, 260.
Tokens plague-spots, 285.
Tomb, ornamenting, 377.
Tongue, blister on, 266.
Toothache, 507;
caused by a worm, 290.
Torches at weddings, 357.
Toss in a sieve, punishment so called, 441.
Touching for king's evil, 279.
Tournaments, 547.
Tower, term in falconry, 123.
Transmigration of souls, 50.
Tread a measure, dance, 431.
Trefoil, divination by, 318.
Trial by the stool, for detecting witches, 31.
Trip and go, a morris-dance, 431.
Troll-my-dame, or Troll-madam, game so called, 422.
Truepenny, mining term, 542.
Trump, old g
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