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INDEX
Essex, hunting the wren in, ii. 143
Esthonian superstition regarding the welfare of cattle, i. 72 sq.; blood not tasted by the Esthonians, i. 178, 179; belief concerning women’s blood, i. 187; preservation of the parings of nails by the Esthonians, i. 204; carrying out the effigy of Death, i. 270; ceremony at the eating of the new corn, ii. 69, 70; dread of the weevil by the Esthonian peasants, ii. 129, 130
Ethiopian kings and their courtiers, i. 222
Etruscan wizards, i. 22
European rain-charm, i. 18; forests, i. 57; fire festivals, ii. 246-285
Evils, expulsion of, ii. 145 sq.; occasional, ii. 158-162; periodic, ii. 162-182; two kinds of expulsion of evils, the direct or immediate, and the indirect or mediate, ii. 158; general observations on, ii. 202-206; transference of, ii. 145 sq.
Fauns, representation of the, ii. 35; the Fauns wood and corn-spirits, ii. 35, 36
Feilenhof, the wolf a corn-spirit in, ii. 3
Feloupes of Senegambia, charm for rain-making, i. 18
Fern seed, midsummer, ii. 365, 366
Fernando Po, restrictions on the food of the king of, i. 208
Fever, cure for, ii. 152, 153
Fida, no one to drink out of the king’s glass in, i. 166
Field of Mars, chariot race on the, ii. 64-66
Fiji, charm used for staying the sun in, i. 24; gods of, i. 39; soul extraction in, i. 138; belief in two souls in, i. 145; eating in the presence of suspected persons avoided in, i. 160; self-immolation at old age in, i. 216; expulsion of devils in, ii. 175, 176; initiatory rites in, ii. 344, 345; offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 377, 378
Finland, wind selling in, i. 27; cattle protected by the wood god in, i. 105, 106; ceremony at the killing of a bear in, ii. 112
Fire festivals, human sacrifices offered at, i. 251
—— festivals in Europe, ii. 246-285; they were charms to make the sun shine, ii. 267, 274
—— kings, i. 53-56
—— sacred, made by the friction of wood, ii. 269; made with oak wood, ii. 292, 293
Fire spirit, expulsion of the, ii. 178
Firstborn sacrificed, i. 236, 237
First-fruits, festival of the, ii. 75-78; offerings of, ii. 373-384
Fish, respect shown by savages to, ii. 118-122; fish preachers, ii. 119, 120
Fladda’s chapel and wind-making, i. 26, 27
Flamen Diahs, rules of life, i. 117; not allowed to walk under a trellised vine, i. 183, 184; cuttings from the hair and nails buried, i. 200; restriction on the food of the, i. 207
—— Virbialis, i. 6
Flaminica, rules of life for the, i. 117, 118
Flanders, midsummer bonfires in, ii. 267; Flemish cure for ague, ii. 153
Flax-pullers, custom of the, i. 375
Florence, “sawing the old woman” in, i. 261
Florida, sacrifice of the firstborn by the Indians of, i. 236, 237
Folk tales, resurrection in, ii. 125
Food, unconsumed, buried, i. 166; prohibited food, i. 207, 208; strong food, ii. 85
Forests, Europe covered with, in pre-historic times, i. 56
Fors, the, of Central Africa, preservation of nail parings by the, i. 204, 205
Forsaken sleeper, i. 96
Foulahs of Senegambia spare the crocodile, ii. 110
France, harvest customs in the north-east of, ii. 4
Franche Comte, harvest customs in, ii. 17
Frankish kings not allowed to cut their hair, i. 193
Friedingen, harvest custom in, ii. 27
Friesland, harvest customs in East, ii. 8
Frog-flayer, i. 92
Funeral custom, i. 129, 130
Fürstenwalde, harvest ceremonies in, ii. 7
Gablingen, harvest customs in, ii. 13
Galela, ceremony at the initiation of boys amongst the, ii. 353
Galicia, harvest customs in, ii. 8
Gall-bladder the special seat of courage amongst the Chinese, ii. 87
Gareloch, Dumbartonshire, harvest customs on some farms on the, i. 345
Garos, rain-charm used by the, i. 18
Georgia, rain-charm in, i. 17
Germany—German peasants and a whirlwind, i. 30; sacred groves common amongst the ancient Germans, i. 58; ceremony on felling a tree, i. 64; rain-charm, i. 93; custom
