210.Strange instance of sympathy,241.Strange legend,229.Strasburg, curious custom in,59.Stanching blood,346.Striking parallel passages,32.Watches,89.With nettles,236.Stomachs, hundred,293.Stones, alligators swallowing,282.Barometer,157.Black, of Mecca,92.Hell,226.Magic rain,203.Musical,199.Perforated,328.Salagrama,334.Sleeping on,336.Talismanic, in birds,249.Stork,265.Story of the dodo,268.Strychnia, bitterness of,303.St. Agnes eve,234.St. Anthony's fire,179.St. Cuthbert's beads,193.St. Fillan's bell,119.St. George's cavern,165.St. Helena coins,328.St. John's wort,306.St. Patrick's day,234.St. Sepulchre's bell,121.Stumbling unlucky,311.Stupid critic,24.Subscribers, inducements to,34.Subterranean Christmas bells,120.Sugar, whitening,134.Supernatural appearance at Holland House,243.Superscription to a letter,70.Superstitions, beard,214.Bees,239.Breton,347.Birds, (see birds).Camel,284.Caul,312.Children,345.Coral and bells,190.Croaking of a raven,250.Death-watch,330.Cutting timber,213.Eggs,274.Geranium,302.Hidden treasure,164.House crickets,330.Letiche,226.Letter M,161.Lily,311.May dew,231.Moon,168.Number one,323.Number seven,325.Number six,324.Patagonian,312.Pin,345.Pontius Pilate,149.Rose of Jericho,303.Rose at midsummer,307.Rubbing with a gold ring,341.Satanic,231.Seventh son of the seventh son,324.Spilling salt,336.St. John's wort,306.Whistling,247.Wolf,346.Supposed to be a genuine island,18.Sundry rural charms,331.Sun, temple of the,105.Surnames, Puritan,38.Swearing on the book,172.Swift's Latin puns,42.Swallowed by an earthquake and thrown up again,175.Swallow drinks the king's health,258.Sword, executioner's,101.Symbol, physician's,162.Talismanic stones in birds,249.Talisman of Charlemagne,91.Smuggler's,341.Treacherous,219.Tankard, Martin Luther's,94.Tarring and feathering, antiquity of,183.Tavern screens,71.Tavern signs, primitive,78.Tea, eating,208.Temple of the sun,105.Museums, first,107.Tradition of the,230.Tenacity of odors,202.Tenacity of life in an elephant,276.Tenant, good,209.Thackeray's geographical blunders,23.Thirty years in blossoming,305.Thomas the Rhymer,148.Thorn, Glastonbury,219.Three borrowed days,209.Throwing an old shoe,319.Thunder and lightning,323.Time-piece, miniature,88.Time-piece, curious,85.Time, royal dinner,318.Timber, cutting by the moon,213.Tinkers, roving,168.Title pages which mislead,31.Toad-stone rings,317.Magpie, stoning a,278.Whipping, to produce rain,349.To disappoint his wife,192.Toilet, absurdities of the,160.Toilet box, Carara's,100.Tomb of Darius,106.Toppling flower pots,62.Too many watches,89.Toothache, preservative against,338.Tooth, golden,226.Tooth-picks,60.Tooth-picks, magnetic,231.Tortoises afraid of heat and rain,288.Touch, ordeal of,310.Traders, earliest,197.Tradition, Abysynnian,213.Artist,213.Temple,230.Trains in the fourteenth century,158.Treasure, fairy,220.Digging,164.Normandy,201.Treatment of lepers in England,237.Trees, oysters growing on,301.Planting in Java,302.Shirts growing on,300.Whistling,301.Trifoliated plants considered sacred,304.True-lover's knot,187.Trumpet, Kircher's speaking,198.Trying land titles in Hindostan,163.Tub, Diogenes and his,27.Turban in Arabia,159.Turkish superstition about the geranium,302.Twelfth-night omens,244.Twins in Africa,197.Twofold apparition,244.Twopence, drunk for,66.Tyrian purple,139.Unicorn's horn,319.Unique library,13.Unlucky, stumbling,311.The hinder well-spout,247.May marriages,344.Umbrellas,185.Vagaries of spelling,33.Value of a long Psalm,210.Vascillating newspapers,22.Vase, Portland,93.Vegetable fungus,306.Veneered diamonds,141.Veneration for the lily,311.Very long word,178.Vermin, exterminating,327.Verse, echo,78.Victory, cock-crowing an omen of,319.Vienne, Pontius Pilate at,149.Vinegar Bible,11.Virtue in the number seven,325.Vicious horses, curing,211.Visions of destiny,342.Vision, Captain Kidd's,242.Vocal clock,83.Voracity of the mole,285.Vow, Hindoo, singular,231.Vow, Queen's,171.Wager, curious,184.Bating for a,184.Grinning for a,183.Waggery, ancient bit of,191.Walking apothecary shop,192.Wall paper pattern,176.Wandering Jew,145.Warlike bantam,201.Washing but once in a lifetime,317.Wassailing the orchards,235.Watches, borrowing,88.Book-shaped,87.Cruciform,88.Death,330.Papers,78.Resurrection,88.Skull,86.Striking,89.Too many,89.Wearing two,89.Watchman imitating the clock at Hernhuth,55.Water, digging for,346.Water, Hungary,141.Waterloo medals,212.Weather rhymes,127.Weather, signs of foul,129.Wedding rings,206.Wedding rings, posies for,52.Welcoming the new moon,240.Wesley's plate,107.Westminster clock,82.Whalebone,177.Whims, alliterative,21.Whipping toads to produce rain,349.Whistling, sailors,247.Whistling trees,301.White elephants,276.Whitening sugar,134.White-breasted birds,262.Whittington and his cat,153.Why the cuckoo builds no nest,256.Why the magpie builds half a nest,257.Wierix's Bible,9.Wife, returned,224.Wife, to disappoint his,192.Will, eccentric,59.Will, John O'Gaunt's,58.William the Conqueror,155.Will-with-a-wisp,313.Wine at two millions a bottle,194.Winning a pair of gloves,237.Wisdom, mob,173.Witchcraft charms,320.Witch-ridden horses,340.Witch, weighing a,328.Wolf superstitions,346.Woman's cleverness,221.Wonderful automata,104.Clock,83.Exhibition with bees,217.Lock,91.Spider's web,294.Wren,261.Worms, book,291.Worshipful cranes,263.Yearly food of one man,207.Zoological cabinet, immense,298.