Strange Survivals

“And there she lay, flat spread as an umbrella.”

Kersey in his Dictionary, 1708, describes an umbrella as a “screen commonly used by women to keep off rain.”

26

Castrén, Nordische Reisen, St. Petersburg, 1853, p. 290.

27

“The Beggynhof,” London, 1869, p. 68.

28

Ed. Viger, IV., p. 161.

29

So Grimm and others following him; but I am more inclined to see in Herodias, Herr-raud the Red Lord, i. e., Thor.

30

“A Dyalogue describing the orygynall ground of these Lutheran facyons,” 1531. A later work on the excesses of sectaries is Featley’s (D.) Dippers Dipt, 1660.

31

Quoted in Westminster Review, Jan., 1860, p. 194.

32

“Autobiography of Peter Cartwright.” London, 1862 (7th ed.)

33

“The Epidemics of the Middle Ages.” London, 1859.

34

The word is, of course, derived from Instrumentum.

35

See “Fretella,” in Ducange, “Fistulæ species.”

36

M. Gilbert prints, “As the dew flies,” etc.; this is a mistake – “doo” is dove.

37

Possibly we may have this in the still popular Cornish lament, “Have you seen my Billy coming?”

38

On December 14, 1624, as many as 128 ballads were licensed, the names of which are given. “The Blind Beggar (of Bethnal Green);” “Maudline of Bristowe (The Merchant’s Daughter of Bristol);” “Sweet Nansie I doe love thee;” “The Lady’s Fall;” “My minde to me a kingdom is” (Sir Edward Dyer’s famous song); “Margaret, my sweetest;” “In London dwelt a merchantman;” “I am sorry, I am sorry;” “In May when flowers springe;” “I am a poore woman and blinde;” “The Devil and the Paritor (Apparitor);” “It was a Lady’s daughter;” “Roger’s Will;” “Bateman (Lord);” “Bride’s Good Morrow;” “The King and the Shepherd;” “As I went forth one summer’s day;” “Amintas on a summer’s day;” “Ah me, not to thee alone;” “Sir John Barley Corne;” “It was a youthful knight;” “Jane Shore;” “Before my face;” “George Barnwell;” “From Sluggish Sleepe;” “Down by a forrest;” “The Miller and the King;” “Chevie Chase;” “How shall we good husbands live;” “Jerusalem, my happie home;” “The King and the Tanner;” “Single life the only way;” “The Lord of Lorne;” “In the daies of old;” “I spide a Nymph trip over the plaine;” “Shakeing hay;” “Troy Toun;” “Walking of late abroad;” “Kisse and bide me welcome home;” “The chirping larke;” “John Carelesse;” “Tell me, Susan, certenly;” “Spanish Lady;” “When Arthur first in Court;” “Diana and her darlings;” “Dear love, regard my life;” “Bride’s buryal;” “Shakeing of the sheets;” “A rich merchantman;” “Gilian of Bramfield;” “Fortune my Foe;” “Cripple of Cornwall;” “Whipping the catt at Abingdon;” “On yonder hill there springs;” “Upon a summertime;” “The Miser of Norfolk.”

39

Friedrich (J.B.) Geschichte des Räthsels, Dresden, 1860.

40

“Le Dieu Gaulois du Soleil,” Paris, 1886.

41

“Scriptores rer. German. Frankof.,” 1718, p. 508.

42

“Eckhard, Monument. Jutreboc,” p. 59.

43

“Anton, Versaml. uber Sitten d. alten Slawen,” II. p. 97.

44

The date on this stone is only 1807, so that the practice must be very modern.

45

Other dolmens with holes at Trye-le-Château, Presles, les Mauduits, in Seine et Oise; at Vic-sur-Aisne; at Bellehaye, and at Villicor – Saint Sépulcre (Oise); and others are in the Morbihan, Charente, etc.

46

What we in England term cromlechs, the French more correctly call dolmens.

47

The building up of part of the circle round a cairn was probably to block the way of the spirit in the direction of the village occupied by the living.

48

Bull. de la Soc. d’anthropologie de Paris, t. ix., p. 198.

49

Reinsberg Düringsfeld. “Trad. et Legendes de la Belgique,” 1870, T. II., p. 239.