Description and condition: Brown cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 306 pp., index, b/w frontis. Good copy with lightly marked page edges, old tape marks and foxing to EPs and first and last page, else good clean pages. In good, clipped, dustcover with large closed tears, now protected. Contents: Republication of the work first printed in 1872 by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. The early inhabitants of Lancashire and the neighbouring counties and remains of their mythology and local nomenclature; fire or sun worship and its attendant superstitions; Christmas and yule-tide superstitions and observances; Easter superstitions and ceremonies; May day ceremonies and superstitions; witchcraft; fairies and boggarts; human invisibility, or fern seed and St John's worth superstitions; the spectre huntsman and the furious host; giants mythical and otherwise; werewolves and the transmigration of souls; sacred and ominous birds; the divining or wish rod and superstitions respecting trees and plants; well worship and superstitions connected with water; conclusion |
