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151 Omens of Weather for New Year's-day 151 Death Tick or Death Watch 152 SUPERSTITIONS, GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS. Popular Superstitions 153 Bones of St. Lawrence, at Chorley 157 The Dead Man's Hand 158 Nineteenth Century Superstition 164 Pendle Forest Superstition 164 East Lancashire Superstition 165 Superstitious Fears and Cruelties 167 Superstitious Beliefs in Manchester in the Sixteenth Century 168 Wells and Springs 169 WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT. Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century 174 The Famous History of the Lancashire Witches 176 Dr. Dee charged with Witchcraft 178 The Lancashire Witches 179 Superstitious Fear of Witchcraft 182 A Household Bewitched 184 The Lancashire Witches of 1612 185 The Samlesbury Witches 194 Witchcraft at Middleton 195 Witchcraft in 1633-34 195 The Lancashire Witches of 1633-4 200 Lancashire Witch-finders 200 The Forest of Pendle—The Haunt of the Lancashire Witches 202 Pendle Hill and its Witches 204 Witchcraft about 1654 206 A Liverpool Witch in 1667 206 The Witch of Singleton 207 Witchcraft at Chowbent in the Eighteenth Century 207 Killing a Witch 208 A Recent Witch, near Burnley 209 "Lating" or "Leeting" Witches 210 PART II. LOCAL CUSTOMS AND USAGES AT VARIOUS SEASONS. Church and