TRADITIONS, SUPERSTITIONS, AND FOLK-LORE, (CHIEFLY LANCASHIRE AND THE NORTH OF ENGLAND :) Their affinity to others in widely-distributed localities; THEIR EASTERN ORIGIN AND MYTHICAL SIGNIFICANCE. BY CHARLES HARDWICK, AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF PRESTON AND ITS ENVIRONS,' "MANUAL FOR PATRONS AND MEMBERS "Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto "Every fiction that has ever laid strong hold of human belief is the mistaken image of MANCHESTER: A. IRELAND & CO., PALL MALL. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 1872. |