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Summary: Volume 24 of notes on Wiltshire folklore by Rev C V Goddard. Index is MSS.2670. Subjects covered include: backswording, beacons, bull ploughing, candle auctions, boy chimney sweeps, church ales, cockshy, corpse candles, counting out rhyme, cookoo, dancing on Club Day, up goes the donkey, epitaphs, fire hooks or crooks, folk dancing, folk lore, frogs, gallows, children's games, gibbets, goatacre, hang fair, haunted houses, Irish harvesters, king's evil, lead poisoning, 1830 machine riots, bull baiting, garlands, mummers, pack donkeys, parish boundaries, pear pie, ruddle, saxon villages, Sham Abram (swindler), Shrove tuesday rhymes, Simnel cakes, snakeskin belts, 1881 snowstorm, wafer games, well worship,