Lancashire Folk-lore (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County PalatineBy Thomas Turner Wilkinson, John Harland
Length10h 24m
About this audiobook
Lancashire Folk-lore gathers the beliefs, legends, customs, charms, proverbial sayings, and seasonal observances of a county rich in vernacular memory. Moving between anecdote, antiquarian record, oral tale, ritual description, and local history, the volume captures a world of boggarts, witches, omens, healing practices, household rites, and calendar festivities. Situated within the nineteenth-century impulse to preserve regional traditions before industrial modernity effaced them, it presents folklore as both literary inheritance and social document. Thomas Turner Wilkinson and John Harland write from the standpoint of Victorian antiquarian scholarship, combining local knowledge with a broader interest in popular tradition. Their work aligns with the emerging folklore movement, in which oral culture, dialect, superstition, and communal practice became subjects worthy of systematic attention. Together, their collected materials illuminate Lancashire's cultural landscape: rural and urban, sacred and secular, comic and uncanny, shaped by memory, class, labor, religion, and place. This volume is ideal for readers interested in folklore, regional history, Victorian studies, or the imaginative life of everyday communities. It offers a rare opportunity to encounter many forms of popular expression in one carefully assembled collection, encouraging comparison between belief, narrative, and custom. Educational, atmospheric, and richly varied, Lancashire Folk-lore invites readers into a continuing dialogue between local tradition and literary culture.
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Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length10 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2PREFACE.
3PART I.
4SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES.
5INTRODUCTION.
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6LANCASHIRE ALCHEMISTS.
7LANCASHIRE ASTROLOGERS.
8BELLS.
9BEAL-TINE OR BELTANE FIRES; RELICS OF BAAL WORSHIP.
10BOGGARTS, GHOSTS, AND HAUNTED PLACES.
11BOGGART HOLE CLOUGH.
12BOGGARTS OR GHOSTS IN OLD HALLS.
13HOUSE BOGGARTS, OR LABOURING GOBLINS.
14HORNBY PARK MISTRESS AND MARGARET BRACKIN.
15BOGGARTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
16CHARMS AND SPELLS.
17CHARMS AND SPELLS AGAINST EVIL BEINGS.
18A CHARM, WRITTEN IN CYPHER, AGAINST WITCHCRAFT AND EVIL SPIRITS.
19THE CROW CHARM AND THE LADY-BIRD CHARM.
20PIMPERNEL.
21THE MOUNTAIN ASH, OR WICKEN OR WIGGEN TREE.
22CHARMS TO CURE SICKNESS, WOUNDS, CATTLE DISTEMPER, ETC.
23CHARMS FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
24VERVAIN, FOR WOUNDS, ETC.
25CHARMS TO STOP BLEEDING.
26TOUCHING FOR THE KING'S EVIL.
27CURES FOR WARTS.
28CURE FOR HYDROCEPHALUS IN CATTLE.
29CATTLE DISORDERS.—THE SHREW TREE IN CARNFORTH.
30CHARMS FOR AGUE.
31STINGING OF NETTLES.
32JAUNDICE.
33TO PROCURE SLEEP BY CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF THE BED.
34THE DEVIL, DEMONS, &c.
35THE DEVIL.
36RAISING THE DEVIL.
37THE DEVIL & THE SCHOOLMASTER AT COCKERHAM.
38OLD NICK.
39DEMONOLOGY.
40DEMON AND GOBLIN SUPERSTITIONS.
41DISPOSSESSING A DEMONIAC.
42DEMONIACAL POSSESSION IN 1594.
43DEMONIACAL POSSESSION IN 1689.
44DIVINATION.
45DIVINATION AT MARRIAGES.
46DIVINATION BY BIBLE AND KEY.
47ANOTHER LANCASHIRE FORM OF DIVINATION.
48DIVINATION BY THE DYING.
49SECOND-SIGHT.
50SPIRITS OF THE DYING AND THE DEAD.
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