
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHILD-BEARING, CHURCHING, and CHRISTENING CUSTOMS
- MARRIAGE CUSTOMS and CEREMONIES
- CUSTOMS AT DEATHS
- OF BOWING TOWARDS THE ALTAR or COMMUNION TABLE on entering the Church
- DRINKING CUSTOMS
- BARBERS' SIGNS
- TOBACCO IN ALE HOUSES
- CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING WELLS AND FOUNTAINS
- NOTICES concerning SPORTS and GAMES
- POPULAR NOTICES concerning CARDS
- SPORTS of SAILORS
- FAIRS
- OF the MEANING of the OLD SAW
- FAIRY MYTHOLOGY
- POPULAR NOTIONS concerning the APPARITION of the DEVIL
- SORCERY or WITCHCRAFT
- GHOSTS, or APPARITIONS
- GIPSIES
- OBSOLETE VULGAR PUNISHMENTS
- OMENS
- CHARMS
- DIVINATION
- VULGAR ERRORS
- NECK VERSE
- BISHOP in the PAN
- DINING with DUKE HUMPHREY
- MILLER'S THUMB
- TURNING CAT in PAN
- PUTTING THE MILLER'S EYE OUT
- TO BEAR THE BELL
- TO PLUCK A CROW WITH ANY ONE
- OF certain other OBSCURE PHRASES and COMMON EXPRESSIONS
- Of the PHENOMENON vulgarly called WILL, or KITTY WITH A WISP, or JACK WITH A LANTHORN
- INDEX
MILLER'S THUMB
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHILD-BEARING, CHURCHING, and CHRISTENING CUSTOMS
- MARRIAGE CUSTOMS and CEREMONIES
- CUSTOMS AT DEATHS
- OF BOWING TOWARDS THE ALTAR or COMMUNION TABLE on entering the Church
- DRINKING CUSTOMS
- BARBERS' SIGNS
- TOBACCO IN ALE HOUSES
- CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING WELLS AND FOUNTAINS
- NOTICES concerning SPORTS and GAMES
- POPULAR NOTICES concerning CARDS
- SPORTS of SAILORS
- FAIRS
- OF the MEANING of the OLD SAW
- FAIRY MYTHOLOGY
- POPULAR NOTIONS concerning the APPARITION of the DEVIL
- SORCERY or WITCHCRAFT
- GHOSTS, or APPARITIONS
- GIPSIES
- OBSOLETE VULGAR PUNISHMENTS
- OMENS
- CHARMS
- DIVINATION
- VULGAR ERRORS
- NECK VERSE
- BISHOP in the PAN
- DINING with DUKE HUMPHREY
- MILLER'S THUMB
- TURNING CAT in PAN
- PUTTING THE MILLER'S EYE OUT
- TO BEAR THE BELL
- TO PLUCK A CROW WITH ANY ONE
- OF certain other OBSCURE PHRASES and COMMON EXPRESSIONS
- Of the PHENOMENON vulgarly called WILL, or KITTY WITH A WISP, or JACK WITH A LANTHORN
- INDEX
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- Observations on Popular AntiquitiesChiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions, pp. 673 - 674Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1813