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    bundling in, 198, 202
    Bundschuh disturbances in, 54–55
    burglaries in, 39, 41
    candle magic in, 101
    Diebeskerze in, 42
    fireraising in, 54–55
    lichtbraten in, 162
    murders in, 43
    Nickel List gang in, 41
    nightwatch in, 76
    passion plays in, 70
    rushlights in, 108
    Schlafdrincke in, 271
    Sperrgeld in, 63
    spinning in, 164
    Spinnstuben in, 178, 179, 183, 195
    Strassen räubers in, 36
    werewolves of, 19
    white witchcraft in, 98
    Wirthaus of, 187
    witch hunts of, 20
    youth gangs in,246
    ghettos, Jewish, 65
    ghosts, 16, 17, 20–21, 64, 120, 140–42, 246, 280, 336
    abodes of, 19
    agendas of, 18–19
    declining belief in, 325–26
    of dogs, 19
    at gibbets, 141–42
    in haunted houses, 19, 140–41, 325
    impersonation of, 41, 243, 256
    ghost stories, 3, 5, 120–21, 180, 256
    gibbets (gallows), 41, 141–42
    Gillot, Claude, 22
    Ginn, Richard, 92
    “giving the wall,” 45
    Glasgow, 48, 113
    glass makers, 73, 125, 161
    Glorious Revolution of 1688–89, 68–69, 228
    glovemakers, 156
    Glückel of Hameln, 114
    goats, eyes of, 90
    goddesses of night, 4
    Godly Forme of Household Government, A (Cleaver), 110
    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 26, 71, 154, 160
    Goffe, Thomas, 217
    Goldsmith, Oliver, 231–32, 267
    goldsmiths, 156
    “Good Ale for My Money,” 189
    Gordon Riots, 330
    Gowing, Sarah, 192
    Graf von Redern, Sigismund Ehrenreich, 322
    Gratarolo, Guglielmo, 265
    gravediggers, 167–68
    grave robbers, 237
    great cloaks, 136
    great coats, 136, 137, 242
    Great Unwashed, The, 334
    Greeks, ancient, 4, 5
    Greene, Robert, 14
    Gregory, James, 112
    Gregory XVI, Pope, 335
    Grendel, 20
    Grisoni, Giuseppe, 215
    Grocers’ Company of London, 186
    Grose, Francis, 140
    Grunewald, Matthias, 17
    guardiani di notte, 76
    Guazzo, Francesco Maria, 307
    Guernsey, 126–27, 178, 195, 247
    guilds, 64, 75, 252
    nocturnal labor prohibited by, 156
    Guillaumin, Émile, xxvii
    G/wi people, 303
    gypsies, 55, 63, 232

    hackney coaches, 137, 193
    Hale, Sir Matthew, 16, 85
    Haler, Batt, 193
    Hales-Burley gang, 38
    Hall, Joseph, 262
    Hamilton, Dr. Alexander, 217, 244
    Hamilton, Dr. Andrew, 296
    Hamlet (Shakespeare), 140
    Hamlet, William, 94
    hand-rattles, 77
    Hands of Glory, 41–42
    Hanging, Not Punishment Enough, 37
    Hanover Succession Crisis, 228
    Hanway, Jonas, 15, 330
    Hardy, Thomas, xxvii, 91, 237
    hare sleep, 267–68
    Harrison, William, 95, 96, 152, 274, 277, 301
    Harrower, John, 294
    harvest, 169–70, 169, 171
    harvest moon, 171
    harvest suppers, 254–55
    Harvey, Audley, 116
    Harwood, Hiram, 168
    haunted houses, 19, 140–41, 325
    “Haunted Mind, The” (Hawthorne), 311
    Haven of Health, The (Cogan), 263
    Hawkhurst gang, 242
    Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 311
    Heap, Moses, 180
    hearing, sense of, 9, 132, 192, 292
    Heaton, Hannah, 291–92, 321, 323
    Hectors gang, 225
    Hegen family, death of, 268, 269
    Heimbach, Wolfgang, 212
    Hélias, Pierre-Jakez, 181–82
    hell, 8, 16, 316
    Heller, Isaac, 280
    Heming, Edmund, 72
    Henry III, King of France, 216, 226
    Henry IV, Part 1 (Shakespeare), 226
    Henry V (Shakespeare), 286
    Henry VIII, King of England, 213, 216, 230
    in aristocratic gang, 226
    bedtime ritual of, 271
    Heraclitus, 300
    Herbert, George, 9, 84, 151, 268, 298, 306
    heretics, 151, 228
    Herrick, Robert, 130
    Hervey, James, 44
    Heylyn, Peter, 192
    Heywood, Rev. Oliver, 10, 25, 33, 118, 229, 312
    Hicks, Mary, 136
    highwaymen, 34–36, 39, 40, 141
    Hill, Thomas, 313
    Hilleström, Pehr, 159
    Hippocrates, 265, 271, 313
    History of the Pleas of the Crown (Hale), 85
    Hobbes, Thomas, 31
    hobgoblins, 16, 23
    Hogarth, William, 29, 35, 219, 221, 251, 277, 289
    Holberg, Ludvig Baron, 31, 50, 79
    Holcroft, Thomas, 122
    Holland, 38–39, 186–87
    Homer, 3, 303
    homes, 36–37, 63–64, 74, 90–117, 118–19, 131, 201, 203, 220, 334
    alarm devices in, 94
    arsenals of, 94–95
    artificial illumination in, 100–111
    curfews in, 233
    defensive function of, 91–97; see also burglaries, burglars
    door locks of, 37, 79–80, 92–93
    doors of, 91–93, 99, 293
    folk magic