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.,

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

VOL. II.

"Nam ut verè loquamur, Superstitio fusa per Orbem oppressit omnium ferè Animos, atque hominum
occupavit imbecillitatem."
CIC. DE DIVINAT. lib. ii.

"Multitudo Vulgi, more magis quam judicio, post alium alius quasi prudentiorem sequitur."

SALLUST. ad Cæs.

LONDON:

CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO., 22, LUDGATE STREET.

1841.