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CONTENTS.
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Illustrations of Scottish Ballads, by Richard John King505
The Red Hand—The Holt Family—Vincent Family506
Vondel's Lucifer, by Janus Dousa507
A Myth of Midridge509
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' Bones509
Local Rhymes and Proverbs of Devonshire511
A Christmas Carol513
A Note for little Boys513
Similarity of Traditions513
Pixey Legends514
The Pool of the Black Hound515
Popular Rhymes515
Minor Notes:—"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde"—
Inscription on an Alms-dish—The Use of the French
Word "savez"—Job's Luck—The Assassination of
Mountfort in For folk Street, Strand—The Oldenburgh
Horn—Curious Custom—Kite—Epitaph on
John Randal—Playing Cards515
Queries:—
Dragons: their Origin517
John Sanderson, or the Cushion Dance; and Bab at the
Bowster...
Illustrations of Scottish Ballads, by Richard John King505
The Red Hand—The Holt Family—Vincent Family506
Vondel's Lucifer, by Janus Dousa507
A Myth of Midridge509
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' Bones509
Local Rhymes and Proverbs of Devonshire511
A Christmas Carol513
A Note for little Boys513
Similarity of Traditions513
Pixey Legends514
The Pool of the Black Hound515
Popular Rhymes515
Minor Notes:—"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde"—
Inscription on an Alms-dish—The Use of the French
Word "savez"—Job's Luck—The Assassination of
Mountfort in For folk Street, Strand—The Oldenburgh
Horn—Curious Custom—Kite—Epitaph on
John Randal—Playing Cards515
Queries:—
Dragons: their Origin517
John Sanderson, or the Cushion Dance; and Bab at the
Bowster...