Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders

appeared auld Barguest belief bird Black Heddon Border bride Brownie cake called candle Canon Humble charm cheese child Christmas church cock corpse cross crowing cure custom Dartmoor dead death Devonshire divination door dragon evil fairies farmer fire Folk-Lore Gabriel hounds ghost girl Haberfield hair hand Hand of Glory haunted head heard Hedley Kow horse husband Joseph Crawhall Killmoulis lads lady legend lived look milk morning mother neighbourhood neighbours never night North of England Northumberland old woman once parish passed person pins practised Redcap rhyme round Sally Walker Scotland seen Sir Walter Scott Sockburn spirit sprite Stamfordham Stokesley stone story Sunday superstition Sussex tells Thorpe's Mythology told took turned unlucky verses Vicar village wife Wild Huntsman Wilkie witch witchcraft Worm Yorkshire young