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Index.

Firstfruits : Fijian fire-walk related to, 87-8 ; as votive offerings, 263-4

Fir-tree : on amulet, China, 295 (^plate)

Fishermen in the Faroe Islands, by E. Taylor, 306

Fish in folklore : {see also Cod ; Eel ; Haddock ; Herring; Lobster; Octo- pus; Porpoise; Salmon ; Shark; and Stingaree) ; bones burnt, Caithness, 302, not burnt, Lewis, 302 ; fossil teeth as amulets, 83, heal wounds, 83, and St. Paul's tongue, Malta, 83 ; first gift to intended bride, Malta, 80 ; not given or sold from boat, Highlands, 303 ; witches have power over, Scotland, 97

Fishing : (^see also Sea beliefs and customs) ; boomerangs for, W. Australia, 322, 326, 333-4, 366 (Jilate) ; clergy unlucky on boats, Highlands, 300, lucky in launching, Faroe islands, 306 ; lucky and unlucky actions, meetings, &c., Faroe islands, 306, Highlands, 300-5 ; single fish must not be divided, Caithness, 306

Flames, see Fire

Flemings ; sprain charm, 372

Florence : cinerary urn, 226 Qt'llus.^ ; Medusa heads, 219, 226 (ilhis.), 2^1

Flowers in folklore : {see also Gar- lands; Hydrangea; Lotus; Lupine; Pansy ; Peach-tree ; Pink ; and Rose) ; in bath for babies on Easter Sunday, Malta, 84 ; coffins dressed with, Abney, 180; "flowers of the dead " spread over articles for dead, Aztecs, 202 ; magic, in folktale, Punjab, 112

Flying-fox: taboos in eating, Kanakas,

Foal, island of, origin of the LtaFdil,

31 Folk-drama : 9 ; Luxemburg, 318 Folklore bibliography, see Bibliography Folklore from the Hebrides : A Dis- claimer, by Rev. A. M'Donald, 87 Folklore of the Azores, by M. Long-

worth-Dames, 115, 125-46 Folk-medicine, see Medical folklore Folk-songs : Algonkin Indians, 152 ; Arapahoe Indians, 149 ; Australia, 148-9, 353 ; Azores, 145-6 ; Bilton, 94; Brandenburg, 309; Bucks, 167-8; Chinamwanga, 445 ; Corsica, 149 ; Hastings, 91 ; Hesse, 319; Horn-

sea, 94; Italy, 152; Kensington, 91 ; Lifu, 251 ; Macedonia, 447 : New Caledonia, 251 ; Notes on Ballad Origins, by A. Lang, 115, 147-61 ; Oxfordshire, 167-9, 17I1 I75"7 ; Polynesia, 149 ; Scotland, 147-61 ; Sierra Leone, 446 ; Anitchkoff^s Vernal Ceretnonial Songs in the West and among the Slavonians reviewed, 448 ; work of Gaston Paris, 165-6 ; Zapotec tribe, Mexico, 203

Folktales : {jee also under various types, such as Outcast child type of folktales) ; Anatolia, 308-9 ; Australia, 361-5 ; Arabian Nights, 37-8 ; Azores, 127-37 ; ballads related to, 151-61 ; Balochis, 36 ; Ba-Ronga, 119; Basques, 43; Basutos, 206, 417-8 ; Brazil, 234, 239, 241 ; Calmucks, 35 ; Chams, 57 ; Chinamwanga, 444-5 ; France, 42-3t 313; India, 34-5, 38-41, 1 1 1-2, 317-8; Italy, 42-3 ; pitaka, 34-5 ; Kathakoca, 41 ; Kathd Sarit Sdgara, 39-40 ; Alabinogion, 107 ; Macedonia, 447 ; Malays, 47-8, 385-407; Maoris, 234, 237-41; Morocco. 37 ; New Caledonia, 246 ; originated in childhood of race, 22- 3 ; Oxfordshire, 410-4 ; Persia, 37 ; Scotland, 313; Siam, 57-8 ; Siberia, 38-9 ; Sierra Leone, 445-6 ; Swit- zerland, 42-3 ; Taranchi Tartars, 38 ; Teleut Tartars, 34-5, 43 ; Tibet, 36-7 ; Transylvania, 33-4 ; Wales, 56-7 ; work of Gaston Paris, 165-6; Zambezi, 1 19-21

Folktales from the Indus Valley, by W. Crooke, reviewed, 11 1-2

Forefinger, see Fingers

Fortune-telling, see Divination

Forty : women stay 40 days in house after death, Malta, 83

Forud ; death of Fiachra at, 14-5

Fossils, folklore of: fish teeth, Malta, %i

Fowls : i^see also Cock ; and Hen) ; spirits of dead in, Angoniland, 311

Fox : place in tales taken by jackal, Punjab, 112

Frage iiber die Heimath der Legende vom Heiligen Gral, Zur, by A. N. Wesselofsky, reviewed, 189- 194

France : {see also Bretagne ; Lor- raine ; New Caledonia; Normandy ; and Provence) ; folktale, 42-3 ;