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INDEX.
519
Shier Thursday, 146
Shig-Shag, 305
Shrewsbury Show, 300
Shrid-pies, 458
Shropshire, 82, 262, 287, 301, 407, 410
Shrove Tuesday, 39
Shying at Leaden Cocks, 67
< Shy for Shy,' 67
Simeon (St.), holiday of, 54
Simnel Bread, 115
Simnel, Lambert, 115
Siranels, 114
Simnel Sunday, 113
Singed Sheeps' Head?, carried on St. Andrew's Day, 430
Singing E'en, 501
Slap-dragon, 463
Sloe Fair, 351
Smock Kace, 214
Smuchdan, 18
Smugging, 68
Snap-dragon, 462
Sollaghyn, 80
Somersetshire, 34,86, 95, 262, 282, 328, 479, 500
Song of the Mallard, 44
Song of the Wren, 35
Sonsy-haggis, 491
Soul Cakes, 405
Souling, going a, 405, 407
Soul Mass Cakes, 409
Sow Day, 438
Sowans-bowie, 490
Spirit Fire, 463
Squirrels, huiuing of, 404, 429, 430.
481
Staffordshire, 10, 23, 34, 86, 203, 208, 215, 263, 287, 340,358, 390, 407, 425, 443, 4S0
Stagg, offeiing of, on St. Cuthbert's Day, 371
Staylace^, given to the Clergy on Ascension D;iy, 213
Stephening, 493
Stephen's (St) Day, 492
Stephen's (St.) Pudding, 494
Stir-up-Sunday, 431
Subterranean Christmas Bells, 476
Suffolk, 86, 215, 263, 481
Sugar-Cupping, 165
Surrey, 86,133, 156, 263, 293, 341, 357,373,3/5
Sussex, 11, 157, 261, 381, 389, 414, 430, 443, 450
Swan-upping, 346
Swarf Penny, 420
1 Sweeping the Girls/ 106
Swiff, 113
Swithins (St.) Day, 341
Swithin'* (St.) Farthings, 341
Sword-dance, 485
Tander, Tandrew, name given to St. Andrew's Day, 430
Tansy Cake, 167
Tenbury Fair Day, 192
Teiminalia, 204
Tharve Cake, 30
Thomas' (St.) Da}', 438
Thomas' (St.) Onion, 439
' Thomasin, going a,' 441
Threshing the Hen, 68
Throwing at Cocks, 66
4 Throwing the Dart/ 370
* Throwing the Ha d,' 32
Tibba's (St.) Day, 438
Timber Waits, 203
Timbrel Waits, 203
Tindles, 409
Tinley, 405
Toothache, remedy for, 464
Tooting-horn, 352
Trap and ball, 86
TuthDav, 192
Trinity Monday, 206
Trinity Sunday, 294
Trolollay, derivation of, 505
Trundling of Eggs, 178
Turkev, 148, 465
Twelfth Cake, 24
Twelfth Dav, 24
Twelfth Night, 24
Twelfth Night Cards, 25
Tynwald Day, 325
Usque-Cashr.'chd, 488
Valentine's [St) Day, 375
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