Encyclopedia of superstitions

Title Page
 Table of Contents
 FOREWORD
 PREFACE
 ACCIDENTS
 ACORN
 ADDER
 ADDER BITES
 ADDER STONES
 AGATE
 AGNES
 AGNES\' EVE, ST.
 AGUE, CURE OF
 ALL SOULS\' DAY
 ANDREW\'S WELL, ST.
 ANGELS
 ANIMALS
 ANTS
 APOPLEXY
 APOSTLE SPOONS
 APPLE
 APPLE HOWLING
 APPLE PIPS
 APPLE TREES
 APRIL
 APRIL FOOL
 APRON
 ARCHES
 ARVALS
 ASCENSION DAY
 ASHEN FAGGOT, THE
 ASHES
 ASH LEAVES
 ASH SAP
 ASH TREE
 ASH WEDNESDAY
 ASPARAGUS
 ASPEN TREE
 ASS
 ASTHMA
 BABY
 BACHELOR\'S BUTTON
 BACK
 BADGER
 BAKER\'S DOZEN
 BAKING
 BALDNESS
 BALLS
 BANNS
 BAPTISM
 BARNACLE
 BATS
 BAY TREE
 BEAM
 BEANS
 BEATING THE BOUNDS. Bedbedroom
 bees
 beetle
 bells
 betrothal
 bible
 bidding (to funeral)
 bidding (to wedding)
 birds
 birds\' eggs
 birth
 \"bit of my own again\"
 bittern
 blackberry
 blackbird
 black cat
 black cock
 blackheads
 black penny
 black sheep
 blacksmith
 black snail
 bleeding
 bleeding nose
 blisters
 blood
 blossoms
 blue-bottles
 body
 boil
 boiling
 boils
 bolts
 bones
 bone-shave
 boosening
 boots (on table)
 borrowing
 borrowing days
 boy or girl
 brake (plant)
 bramble-arch
 brasses (on horse\'s harness)
 bread
 bread (to find a corpse)
 breakfast
 bride
 bride-ale
 bride-bed
 bride cakes. Bride\'s chairbride door
 bride laces
 bride\'s eve, st.
 bride\'s day, st.
 bride\'s pie
 bride-wain.
 bridge
 broom
 brownie
 bumble-bee
 bun
 bunions
 burbeck\'s bone.
 burial
 buried treasure
 burn (fire)
 burn (wound)
 burning the faggot
 burning t\'old witch
 burying old tom
 bush
 butter
 butterfly
 buttons
 caesarian operation
 cake
 calf
 calf (burning)
 calf (hanging)
 camphor
 cancer
 candle
 candle (corpse)
 candle-and-pins
 candlemas.
 canterbury bells
 carrots
 carrying the bride
 cat
 caterpillar
 cattle
 caul
 chaff-riddling
 charms
 cheeks
 cherries
 chickens
 chilblains
 child. Childbirthchopping the block
 christening
 christmas
 christmas box
 christmas cards
 christmas day
 christmas decorations
 christmas eve
 christmas mummers
 christmas stockings
 christmas tree
 chrstmas yule log
 church
 church bells
 churching (of women)
 churning
 cider
 cigarette
 cinders
 clock
 clothes
 club-moss
 clubs (playing cards)
 coal
 cobblers
 cobweb
 cock
 coffin rings
 coins
 cold (in head)
 colic
 colliers
 communion, holy
 confirmation
 consumption
 corns
 corpse
 coughs
 couvade, the
 cows
 cradle
 cramp
 crawling
 cricket
 cricket (in the house)
 crops
 crossed eyes. CROSSED THINGSCROW
 CROWING HEN
 CRYING BACK THE DYING
 CUCKOO
 CURES, IN SEASON
 CURFEW
 CURLEW
 CUTS
 DADDY-LONGLEGS
 DAFFODIL
 DAIRY
 DEAD EMBERS
 DEAD MAN\'S HAND
 DEAFNESS
 DEATH
 DEATH AT LOW TIDE
 DEATH-COME-QUICKLY
 DEATH DIVINATION
 DEATH PORTENTS
 DEATH WATCH
 DEATH WATCH BEETLE
 DEER
 DEW
 DISH
 DISHCLOTH
 DOG
 DOG WHIPPING
 DOLPHIN
 DONKEY
 DOOR
 DOORSTEP
 DOVE
 DRAKE\'S DRUM
 DREAMS
 DRESS
 DRESSING
 DROPPING OF FORK (KNIFE, etc.)
 DROPSY
 DROWNING
 DRUNKENNESS
 DUCK
 DUST
 DYKE
 DYSPEPSIA, TO CURE
 EAGLE
 EAR
 EARACHE
 EARRINGS
 EASTER
 EASTER EGGS
 EBB TIDE
 EDGEWELL OAK
 EELS.