{"id":1300,"date":"2015-05-03T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T22:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2015-05-03T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T22:58:40","slug":"notes-on-a-portion-of-the-northern-borders-of-staffordshire-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2015\/05\/03\/notes-on-a-portion-of-the-northern-borders-of-staffordshire-superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on a Portion of the Northern Borders of Staffordshire: Superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve unearthed a new addition to the folklore bibliography of North Staffordshire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* W. Beresford, <a href=\"http:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=mdp.39015065584776;view=2up;seq=4\">&#8220;Notes on a Portion of the Northern Borders of Staffordshire: Superstitions&#8221;<\/a>, <em>The Reliquary<\/em>, 1866-67.<\/p>\n<p>Summary: Collected from the Moorlands.  Farm superstitions.  &#8220;The belief in fairies, by the way, still lingers with some here, and in witches with many&#8221;.  Candle and dream omens, and petty superstitions.  Methods of foretelling future husbands. There was then still a &#8220;popular belief in Moorland &#8220;ghosts&#8221;&#8221; &mdash; sometimes called a <em>skug<\/em>, a <em>boggart<\/em>, or a <em>tuggin<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve unearthed a new addition to the folklore bibliography of North Staffordshire&#8230; * W. Beresford, &#8220;Notes on a Portion of the Northern Borders of Staffordshire: Superstitions&#8221;, The Reliquary, 1866-67. Summary: Collected from the Moorlands. Farm superstitions. &#8220;The belief in fairies, by the way, still lingers with some here, and in witches with many&#8221;. Candle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}