by Chloe Rhodes
pregnancy, cravings during ref 1
Proverbs ref 1, ref 2
Proverbs of Alfred ref 1
Provincial Glossary (Grose) ref 1
Provincial Glossary of Popular Superstitions, A (Grose) ref 1
purse, as gift ref 1
Puruvaras ref 1
Purvis, Admiral ref 1
rabbit’s foot ref 1, ref 2
ravens ref 1
redheads ref 1, ref 2
reflexology ref 1
reiki ref 1
Remains of Early English Poetry (Hazlitt) ref 1
Roberts, George ref 1
robins ref 1
rocking chairs ref 1
Rural Life in England (Howitt) ref 1
sailors:
and birds ref 1
and earrings ref 1
superstitious nature of ref 1
and women on shipboard ref 1
St Gotthard Pass ref 1
St John’s wort ref 1
St Lawrence ref 1
St Thomas ref 1
salt:
in spells and holy water ref 1, ref 2
spilling ref 1
to ward off evil ref 1
Samuel, 2nd Book of ref 1
Satan, see Devil
Satyricon (Petronius) ref 1, ref 2
scissors:
in folklore ref 1
as gift ref 1
on New Year’s Day ref 1
as protection against witchcraft ref 1
Scot, Reginald ref 1
Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches (Gaule) ref 1
Set/Seth ref 1
Shakespeare, William ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Shakti ref 1
ships:
witches cause wrecking of ref 1
women aboard ref 1
shivering ref 1
shoelaces:
loose or broken ref 1
right versus left ref 1
shoes, on table ref 1
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ref 1
Sirius ref 1
skull, drinking from ref 1
sneezing ref 1
soul:
of babies ref 1
breath linked with ref 1, ref 2
earthbound ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
and mirrors ref 1
rebirth of ref 1
of sailors ref 1
of sinners ref 1
transmigration of ref 1
and yawning ref 1
Spectator ref 1
spiders ref 1
in Christian folklore ref 1
spirits, evil ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
in animal form ref 1
and bells ref 1
and candles ref 1
and circles ref 1
and corpses ref 1
and crossroads ref 1
funerals as beacons for ref 1
and plague ref 1
spitting ref 1
and Evil Eye ref 1
and redheads ref 1
and shoes ref 1
sprites ref 1
staircase, passing on ref 1
Stoker, Bram ref 1
Styx ref 1
suicide ref 1
superstition:
and Church ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
definition of ref 1
rooted in religion ref 1
swallows ref 1
farmers’ beliefs concerning ref 1
Swan Lake ref 1
swan’s feather ref 1
Swift, Jonathan ref 1
sympathetic magic ref 1
table, shoes on ref 1
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich ref 1
Temptation and Fall ref 1
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord ref 1
Theocritus ref 1
Theophrastus ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
thirteen ref 1, ref 2
and anti-Semitism ref 1
see also Friday: 13th
Those Superstitions (Igglesden) ref 1
three, as frequency of bad things ref 1
thunderbirds ref 1
tide, ebbing, and death ref 1
Times, The ref 1
toads ref 1
and bad luck ref 1
to ward off plague ref 1
toadstone, carrying ref 1
tombstones, see graves
tongue, biting ref 1
‘Touch wood’ ref 1
Traversari, Ambrogio ref 1
Trevelyan, Marie ref 1
triangles ref 1
trolls ref 1
True Legend of St Dunstan and the Devil, The (Flight) ref 1
umbrellas ref 1
Urvasi ref 1
vampires ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Venidad, The ref 1
Vergil, Polydore ref 1
Vesta ref 1
Virgil ref 1, ref 2
Virgin Mary ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
voodoo ref 1
Vulgar Errors (Browne) ref 1
Wagner, Richard ref 1
Wagstaff, Simon (Jonathan Swift) ref 1
Waits, Tom ref 1
wallet, as gift ref 1
wassailing ref 1
water:
holy ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
from human skull ref 1
and moon ref 1
spitting before crossing ref 1
see also bridges
Watson, Rev. Samuel ref 1
Webster, Noah Jr ref 1
Wellington, Duke of ref 1
werewolves ref 1
Weyer, Johann ref 1
Wicca ref 1, ref 2
see also witches
Wildlife and Countryside Act ref 1
William of Waddington ref 1
Winter’s Tale, A (Shakespeare) ref 1
wishes, and crossed fingers ref 1
witches ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and brooms ref 1
and cats ref 1
and cutlery ref 1
Czech festival concerning ref 1
and eggshells ref 1
elder wands of ref 1
familiars of ref 1, ref 2
and hair and nails ref 1, ref 2
home defended against ref 1
hysterical fear of ref 1
mark of ref 1
and moving widdershins ref 1
and ravens ref 1
and rocking chairs ref 1
scissors as protection against ref 1
shapeshifting by ref 1, ref 2
and toads ref 1
and Witchfinder General ref 1
see also Wicca
Witchfinder General ref 1
women on shipboard ref 1
Wonderful Year, The (Locke) ref 1
wood, touching/knocking on ref 1
yawning, covering mouth when ref 1
Yule logs ref 1
Zeus ref 1
zodiac ref 1
Zoroaster ref 1