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practiced in, 97–101
    gateposts of, 99
    geese in, 96
    hiding places in, 94
    landlords of, 85
    lanterns outside, as street lighting, 67–68
    mishaps in, 28
    murder of intruders in, 87–88, 95, 199
    navigating in darkness of, 110
    night noises in, 34, 37, 291, 293–94
    night-spells and, 98–99
    nocturnal labor in, 158, 163–64, 173–74, 178–84, 305–6
    partitioned rooms in, 274
    plague and, 230
    privacy in, 150
    rats and mice in, 52, 293
    religious faith in, 97
    sacramentals at entrances of, 99
    shutting in of, xxxii, 91–93, 138, 268
    of squatters, 238
    thresholds of, 92, 100
    valuables in, 93–94
    vandalism of, 246
    watchdogs of, 95–97
    see also fireplaces; neighbors, mutual support of; windows
    Homo Homini Demon, 31
    homosexuals, 230, 231, 281
    “Honest Ploughman, The,” 128–29
    honor, male cult of, 44, 217
    Hood, Thomas, 130
    Horneck, Rev. Anthony, 306, 307
    Horse Dance, The, 211
    horses, 18, 24, 26, 34, 64, 131–32, 137, 170
    horseshoe amulets, 98, 99
    housebreaking, 37, 38, 87, 96
    “How Five and Twenty Shillings were Expended in a Week,” 295
    Howitt, William, 140, 178–79, 181
    Hubert, Francis, 312
    hue and cry, 75, 115
    Hügel, Conrad, 183
    Hugo, Victor, 336
    Huguenots, 228
    Hull, John M., 132
    Humphry Clinker (Smollett), 212
    Hungary, 19
    hunter’s moon, 171
    Husbandmans Calling, The (Steele), 8
    Hutton, William, 103–4, 145
    Huygens, Constantijn, 120
    “Hymn to Darkness” (Yalden), 282

    Iago, 48
    Ibo people, 4
    Iceland, 109, 178, 181
    Ignatius, 59
    ignis fatuus, 18
    Iliad (Homer), 4
    illnesses, 16, 112–14, 270, 297
    doctors and, 64, 65, 113
    dreams and, 316
    feigning of, 249
    medications for, 112–13, 305
    ministers and, 113
    moon’s influence on, 12
    from nightfall’s noxious vapors, 12–15
    of respiratory tract, 14, 288
    shut windows and, 14–15
    sleep disturbed by, 288–89, 297
    sun’s impact on, 14
    watchers of, 113–14
    as worsened at night, 14–15, 288–89, 290
    immune systems, 14
    Indians, American, 95
    candlewood used by, 109
    English visit of, 225–26
    and fear of darkness, 5
    fire-hunting of, 241
    industrialization, 6, 327–28
    Industrial Revolution, 6, 84, 110
    infants, 21, 26, 278
    births of, 113
    conception of, 183
    crib deaths of, 292
    maternal abandonment of, 237
    stillborn, magical properties of, 41–42
    unborn, extraction of, 42
    see also children
    influenza, 14
    Ingham, Abram, 297
    inns, 187, 223, 242
    clientele of, 188
    insects, 288, 294–95, 295, 297–98
    Interpretation of Dreams, The (Artemidorus of Ephesus), 313
    Ireland, 146
    anti-Irish street mobs and, 254
    aristocratic gangs in, 224
    arson in, 55
    banshees of, 19
    bundling in, 198
    castle sentries of, 79
    communal beds in, 278–79
    communal labor in, 178, 179
    earthen floors as beds of, 276–77
    fairies in, 18
    folk magic in, 98
    funeral wakes in, 194
    Gaelic of, xxxii
    insurgents in, 257, 258
    peat as fuel in, 103
    pilfering in, 240
    robberies in, 34
    rushlights in, 111
    St. John’s Eve in, 140
    storytelling in, 179, 180
    tallow candles in, 106
    thief’s candles in, 42
    iron foundries, 161, 175, 327
    Irving, Washington, 247
    Isham, Thomas, 247
    Isle of Man, 162, 242, 328
    Italy, xxxi, 14, 20, 42, 43, 69
    andatores di notte in, 32
    aristocratic gangs in, 224–25
    armed peasants in, 142
    bad roads of, 26
    beccamòrti of, 167
    benandanti cult of, 319
    briganti in, 36
    carrying weapons banned in, 66
    communal labor in, 177
    fishing in, 171
    forests of, 23–24
    May Day in, 152
    murders in, 44
    murder weapons in, 43
    night courts of, 85
    night guards in, 62
    nottolónes in, 245
    paid assassins in, 44
    shepherds of, 172
    youth gangs in, 245, 247, 249

    Jackson, Hester, 192–93
    Jacobites, 228
    Jacobzoon, Woulter, 157, 237
    Jamaica, 174, 176–77, 246, 257
    Jamerey-Duval, Valentin, 123
    James, Nicholas, 298
    James I, King of England, 15
    James II, King of England, 224
    Jeake, Samuel, 26–27, 271
    Jefferson, Thomas, 310
    Jerome, 59
    Jerusalem, 4
    Jessop, Arthur, 24
    Jesus Christ, 4
    Jewell, Joseph,