ON

POPULAR ANTIQUITIES:

CHIEFLY

ILLUSTRATING THE ORIGIN OF OUR

VULGAR CUSTOMS, CEREMONIES

AND SUPERSTITIONS.

BY JOHN BRAND, M.A.,

FELLOW AND SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON:

ARRANGED, Revised, and greatly enlarged for THIS EDITION,

BY SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H. F.R.S. SEC. S.A., &c.,

CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO., 22, LUDGATE STREET.

1842.