Index.
485
Fables, see Beast fables
Fairies : blight berries on Hallowe'en,
Roscommon, 437 ; hymn as charm
against, Connaught, 348 Fairy Mistress type of folktales, 44, 48 Fakone lake : babies' souls live in, 269 Falga, island of : raid of Cuchulainn,
143, 148 Faroe islands : folktale, 194-5 Fasting : The Principles of Fasting,
by Dr. E. Westermarck, 391-422 Father-right, see Agnation or father- right Feasts : England, 341 ; Eskimo, 99 ;
India, 331-2, 334; Jews, 395;
Morocco, 395 February : {see also Shobath) ; Siva
festival, Mailar, 333-4 Feeble-minded, see Imbecile Feilberg. H. F. : The Corpse-Door :
A Danish Survival, 361, 364-75
{plate) Females, see Animals in folklore ; atid
Women Feradach, magic shipbuilder, 27, 29 Ferchertne the aged, 133 Fergus Finnvel, the poet, 27-8, 30 Fescamp : relic at, 302 Fetishism : Bavili, 237 ; Sierra Leone
Protectorate, 362-3, 423-7 {plates) Fianna, the, in folktales, 27-31, 47 Fidchell, game of, 229 Fifeshire : {see also Inchkeith) ; St.
Serf's visit to, 33 Fifth of November, The, and Guy
Fawkes, by Miss M. Peacock,
449-50 Fig-tree : jinn live in, Palestine, 70 Fiji islands : fasting as mourning, 399 P'inland : folktale, 193 Finn MacCoul : {see also Ossianic
sagas) ; in folktales, 27-31, 45-6, 48 Fiote, see Bavili Fire : {see also Torches) ; bonfires.
Midsummer Eve, Roscommon. 438;
in charm for ailing child, Servia,
256 ; firesticks carried and used by
bridegroom, Gallas ; jinns created
from, Palestine, 64 ; not lit in
house of death, India &c., 405-6 ;
live coal in charm to i>rotect
animals, Boudroum, 331 Firewood : carrob twigs not first
gathered, Palestine, 64 Firstborn : fast on eve of Passover,
Jews, 395 ; soul in newly hatched
bird, Malay tribes, 455
Firth of Forth, see Inchkeith Fir-tree : for roof of newly built house, Davos Platz and Dresden, 84 {plate) ; splints burnt in circuit of fields, Hallowe'en, Braemar, 85 Fish in folklore : {see also Chad ; Eel ; Goby ; Grey mullet ; Herring ; atid Salmon) ; amulet against evil eye, Italy, 189; emblem of fertility, Assyria and India, 270 ; water spirit as, 273 Fishing customs and beliefs : lucky
bone, Whitby, 250 Fits : from falling when holding water- lily, Holland, 279 Flann Manistrech, poet, 229 Flask : amulet against evil eye, Italy,
189 Flax-seed : strewn round house after
funeral, Scandinavia, 366, 368-9 Flinders Range : tribal organisation,
184 Flood legends, see Deluge legends Florida, see Seminole Indians Flowers in folklore : (5^1? also Nar- cissus ; and Water-lily) ; in agri- cultural magic, India, 332 ; in bap- tismal rite, Yucatan, 262; "flower" theory of origin of Negrito decora- tion, 452-3 ; offered to obtain soul for unborn child, Malay tribes, 455 ; offered to spring, Hesse, 279 Fo, Chinese Buddha, 271 Foligno : St. Domenico, 1878, 216 Folklore and Supeistitions Beliefs of Lebano7i Coimty {Pemisylvanta), by E. Grumbine, short notice of,
356-7 Folk-lore de France, Le, by P. Sebillot,
reviewed, IIO-2 Folklore of Aristotle, by T. E. Lones,
212 5 Folk-lore of Women, by T. F. Thisel-
ton-Dyer, reviewed, 350-1 Folk-Medicine, Nursery-Lore, etc.
from the /Egean Islands, by W. R.
Paton, 329-31 Folk-sayings, see Proverbs P'olk-songs : Baloches, 8-9 ; England,
280, 357-60, 439, 449, 470-2 ;
Eskimo, 98 ; Greeks, 20 ; Ireland,
347-50, 439 ; Scotland, 24-6, 89-
90, 246-7, 470-2 Folk-Song Refrain, by H. M. Bower,
449 Folktales : {see also under various types, such as Cinderella) ; Africa,