Choice Notes from Notes and Queries; Folk Lore (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: were extremely careful in plucking and handling them; for if any one fell with such a flower in his possession, he became immediately subject to fits." 16. One of my friends cut himself. A man-servant being present secured the knife hastily, anointed it with oil, and putting it into the drawer, besought the patient not to touch it for some days. Whether the cure was effected by this sympathetic means, I can't affirm; but cured it was: so, don't be alarmed. 17. If you feel on a sudden a shivering sensation in your back, there is somebody walking over your future grave. 18. A person speaking by himself will die a violent death. 19. Don't go under a ladder, for if you do you will be hanged.?(Vol. iii. p. 387.) a? Amsterdam. EXHUMATION OF A BODY OMINOUS TO FAMILY OF THE DECEASED. In the counties of Leicester and Northampton, and I doubt not in other parts of England, there is a superstitious idea that the removal or exhumation of a body after interment bodes death or some terrible calamity to the surviving members of the deceased's family. Turner, in his History of Remarkable Providences, Lond. 1677, p. 77., thus alludes to this superstition: ? " Thomas Fludd of Kent, Esq., told me that it is an old observation which was pressed earnestly to King James I., that he should not remove the Queen of Scots' body from Northamptonshire, where she was beheaded and interred. For that it always bodes ill to the family when bodies are removed from their graves. For some of the family will die shortly after, as did Prince Henry, and I think, Queen Anne." T. S.?(Vol. ii. p. 4.) THE CHRISTMAS THORN. In my neighbourhood (near Bridgewater), the Christmas thorn blossoms on the 6th of January (Twelfth Day), andon this day only. The villagers in whose gardens it grows, ...