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omen of house taking fire, Pun- jab, 64 ; ordeal by, Baloches, 263-4 ; passing through, to Molech, 218 ; sacred, Irish Druid guarded, 325 ; in sayings, Hebrides, 30 ; sheep bones not burned, Heb- rides, 35 ; not taken from house with toothless child, Heb- rides, 32 ; straws on embers for divination, Hebrides, 53 ; yew preserves house against, Hebrides,
Fire-drill : in myth of Tezcatlipoca, Mexico, 88-9 ; symbol of North, Mexico, 89
Firefly : from blood of murdered man, Malays, 150
Fire-saw, sacred, Kenyahs, 438
Fire-walking in Southern India, by A. C. Haddon, 89-90
Fire-walking as ordeal, Baloches, 263-4
Firstborn children, beliefs about, India, 63, 188, 278-9
Firstborn, sacrifice of, see Sacrifice
Firstfoot: St. Briavel's, 174
Firstfruits : not eaten by mother in months Jeth or Magh, 278 ; offer- ing of, 218
Fish in folklore : {^see also Cat- fish ; Eel ; Flounder ; Haddock ; Herring ; Salmon ; Sting-ray ; Thorn-back mudfish ; and Trout) ; amulets in shape of, Burmah and India, 338 ; in dream, Hebrides, 51 ; " fish eaters," Siouan group names, 389 ; fish trap dance and song, Malays, 140, 158-63 ; found dead, not removed, Hebri- des, 37 ; gills dispense with throat- cutting rite, Moslem, 265 ; Jewish bride &c. step over, 238 ; omen of coming of, Hebrides, 34 : in pool of "long ju-ju," Niger delta, 168-70 ; red-haired women disas- trous to, Hebrides, 48 ; stored, C. Australia, 412 ; as totem name, W. Australia, 356 ; not touched or eaten, Baloches, 265
Five : in charm to avert cattle disease, W. India, 189; Fridays after Good Friday, baking blest and washing cursed, Kennet Valley, 423
Flounder : why mouth crooked, Heb- rides, 37
Flowers in folklore, see Cuckoo- flower ; Kasinda flower ; and Lily
Fly : omen from, Hebrides, 50
Foal, see Horse
Folk-drama : {sec also Guisers) ; 296-7
Folkestone : Eanswida, abbess of, 214
Folk-etymology, examples of, 378-9
Folklore : bibliography, see Biblio- graphy ; collection, see Collection of Folklore ; like ideas developed at like intellectual stages, 13 ; ori- gins of, discussed, by M. Gaster, 1 1 6-9
Folklore Notes from St. Briavel's, Gloucestershire, by Miss L. M. Eyre, 114-5, 170-7
Folklore of the Kennet Valley, by Miss L. Salmon, 337, 418-29
Folk medicine, see Medical folklore
Folk-rhymes, see Rhymes
Folk sayings, see Proverbs
Folk-songs : Australia, 410, 412, 415- 6 ; Balochi, 252-6, 268-70, 273-4 ; "Border Minstrelsy," sources of, 191-7 ; invisible beings sung to for vengeance, Birria &c. tribes, 19 ; Leeds, 92 ; Lincolnshire, 91 ; magic, Malays, 138-42, 159-64; Henderson's Sir Walter Scott's Alinstrelsy of the Scottish Border reviewed, 433-5 ; Yorkshire, 95
Folktales : {see also under various types, such as Bertha type of folk- tales) ; Australia, 405-17 ; Balochi, 260-1 ; Berbers, 447 ; England, III, 176-7,297-300,421-3; Hindu, 79-S3, 304-6 ; closing formulas of marchen, no; Ireland, iio-l, 220-1, 327-30; Sahara Arabs, 285, 217-8
Food, see Meals
Fools, as village sobriquet, 386
Foot : swelling ascribed to bite of caterpillar, Malays, 157
Ford (Northum.) : bride jumps over petting stick, 230-1
Formelhafte Schliisse im Volks- Mdrchen, by R. Petsch, reviewed, no
Fort Munro (Sulaimans) : weregild &c. at, 271-2
Forty : days for special ritual to Hanuman, N.W. India, 188-9
Four : birds as omen, St. Briavel's, 171; in divination, Penang, 143; souls. Calabar, 359
Fourteen: in rite after ' trikhal ' birth, Rohtak, 67
