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 Index.

Exhibits at meetings, 1-3, 7, 130-I, 350, 385-6

Exhibits at Meetings of the Society, by F. A. Milne, 350

Exogamy: Assam, 142; Australia, 174-9 ; Nyassaland, 245

Exorcism : China, 519; Swahili, 436

Eyebrows : meeting, omen of hanging or drowning, Lincolnshire, 217

Eyelashes : lost from breaking food tabu, Lower Congo, 308 ; in wish- ing, Worcestershire, 346

Eyes : cures for, Durham, 72, Shrop- shire and Worcestershire, 491 ; diseased from breaking food tabu. Lower Congo, 308 ; indicate char- acter, India, 337

Fables : China, 518-9

Fairies : amulets against, Brittany, 228; fairy darts, Scotland, 231-2; pipes, Worcestershire, 347-8 ; ride horses, Worcestershire, 347 ; shape- shifting by, Worcestershire, 347

Fairs : Brough Hill, Westmoreland, 75; Scotland, 90; Wilts, 81-2

Fairy Tales from South Africa, by Mrs. E. J. Bourhill and Mrs. J. B. Drake, noticed, 128

Faleoien : tale oi hjddre-ioWi, 331

Fanai : chieftainess Darbilli, 415 (flaie); dress of chief, 415-6 (plate)

Faroe islands : folk-songs, 120

Fasts : of cattle, Ireland, 359 ; of Greek Church, 296

Feasts, see Festivals

February : Ardhodoy festival, India, 212 ; 1st, St Bridget's Festival, Antrim, 130 ; 2nd, end of Christ- mas, Cambridge, 79

Feilberg, Dr. H. F. : tiotes to Old- Time Survivals in Remote Nor- wegian Dales, 316, 321, 324, 329,

336

Ferguut, by J. Verdam, reviewed,

"4-5 Festivals : Cheshire, 207 ; Greek

Church, 296; India, 139, 212, 403-4,

410, 483-4 ; Westmoreland, 223 ;

Yorkshire, 349 Fetishes : Congo basin, 2-3, 7) 36,

43i 53-4, 57. 59. 306, 463-6, 473,

475-6, 480 Fetish Figure from Bolobo, Upper

Congo, by A. E. Scrivener, 2, 312-3

{plate)

Fevers : caused by eating firstfruits without mavti?>iha, Swahili, 435-6 ; onion protects from, Lancashire, 489.

Fifeshire : (see also Cupar ; Earls- ferry; Kirkcaldy; a«</ St Andrews); amulets, 231-2 ; German bands bring rain, 348

Fig-tree : in fable, China, 519

Fifians, The, by Basil Thomson, re- viewed, 252-5

Fiji islands : (see also Viti Levu ; and Wainimala) ; burial customs, 155; consanguinity and affinity, 150,155; Thomson's The Fijiatts reviewed, 252-5; folk-tales, 155 ; land tenure, .149-50, 155

Fingers : forefinger not used to rub sore, Staffordshire, 221 ; in wishing charm, Durham, 77

Finland : magic ascribed to Finns, 320-1, 329

Fire : amulets against, Japan, 384 ; bonfires. New Year, Perthshire, 482 ; burns continuously, during Christmas Night and New Year's Eve, Worcestershire, 345, and in circumcision house. Lower Congo, 305 ; charm against, Japan, 384 ; in charms against dreaming. Lower Congo, 61 ; destroys spirit, Lower Congo, 55 ; lucky for stranger to poke, Worcestershire, 345 ; myths of origin, Australia, 341-2, Lower Congo, 475-6 ; needfire, Norway, 322; omens from, Oxfordshire, 219, Worcestershire, 345 ; Prometheus myth, 423-4 ; salt in, prevents rain, Lower Congo, 476 ; sparks drive off Yarromas, N.S.W., 486; spit- ting in, brings disease. Lower Congo, 476 ; sprinkled with spring water, Nandi, 247 ; stolen from bandicoot, Australia, 341 -2, or mythical being, Andamans, 262-3, 265, 267

Firefly : in folk-tale, Japan, 252

Fireirons : unlucky position, Worces- tershire, 346 Firstborn, redemption of, 381-2 Firstfooting : Durham, 73 ; Scotland, 482 ; Shropshire, 222 ; Stafford- shire, 222 Firstfruits : rites in eating. Lower

Congo, 311, Swahili &c., 435-6 Fir-tree : needles as Easter-egg pat- terns, Roumanians, 301-3 (plate)