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Rh Family, the, based on exogamy, 253-254

Farnell's Cults of the Greek States referred to, 177

Feast of the Cross, a fire festival, 18

Fees at Indian weddings, 150

Female relatives, duty of, to the dead, in Greece, 123

Females excluded from Mount Athos, 180

Feminine element in prehistoric stones and idols, 184

Fertilization of birds, by P. H. Emerson, 82; by M. Peacock, 183

Fertility, use of fire to secure, 180; borrowed clothes in relation to, India, 128

Festivals, see Christmas, Easter, Ephipany, Feast of the Cross, Good Friday, Palm Sunday, etc.

Fetish and Fetishism, 161, 165

Fife superstitions, 285

Fighting for the bride, 132

Fijian customs of feeding chiefs, 103

Finger-marks, spectral, 89

Finnland, belief in secret words in, 259; tale of the Three Dresses from, cited, 129

Fires, sacred (see Baal Fires), festival and other, Syria, 18, 180, 224; magic, Australia, 306; new, as cure for cattle plague, in Denmark, 215; and Scotland, 216, 280; used to secure fertility, 180

Fish, folklore of, medicinal use of, in Tobit tale, 243; offered to idols, 277; sea and river fish not titheable, 245; the trout bewitching milk, 85

Fishing, first-fruits presented to Mayor at Great Yarmouth, 247; privileges at Hungerford, 283

Fjends Herred, folklore of, collected by Kristensen, 200

Flax-seed carried "withershins" round house to prevent dead from walking, Denmark, 216

Fled Brierend, tale and analogies, 270

Fleming, D. Hay, superstitions in Fife, 285

Florida, folklore of, 79

Folklore, defined (as a survival, etc.). 31; racial elements in, 31, 37; classified, 32; lines of research indicated, 51; influence of Christianity on, 54; two schools of, 57; two main uses of, 69; place among the sciences of, 133; desiderata in German collections of, 343; difficulties in way of collectors, 201, 208; psychological side of, 209; where and how to seek, 205, 206

Folklore Catanese, J. Arturo Trombatore, reviewed, 257; de l'Isle de Kythnos, par Henri Hauttecoeur, reviewed, 341

Folklore from the Hebrides, III., by Malcolm MacPhail, 84

Folk-Lore Society, its work (County Folklore), 52; Danish, founded by Kristensen, 220

Folktale themes:

Abhorred marriage deferred, 121, 122, 129; magic robes in, 129, 130

Bertha Saga and its motive, 71

Blundering adventurer, 270

Bow-bending test. 132

Bride, the bewitched, 226, et seqq.; fairy, 266, or Nereid, 341; foot-race for, 100, 106; forgotten, 120, and parallels, 121; substituted, 70, 71; unwilling, and parallels, 121; won by feats of skill, 132

Chastity tests, 121, 130

Division of property in return for help, 226, et seqq.

Exposed infant, 100

Grateful Dead, 226, et seqq.

Kiss of oblivion, 121

Lad, or king's son, (nameless hero), 266

Loathly lady, 270

Magic dresses. 129, 130; gifts, 232, 233, 235, 237

Master maid, 121; thief, 100, 114, 120

Mouth emitting dragons, 226

Nameless hero, see Lad

Power of visual intercourse, 83

Recognition test, 131

Riddles with death penalty, 234

Undersea King, 270

Underworld visits, 121

Unnatural father, and parallels, 121, 129

Wright's Chaste Wife, 121

Youngest son's success, 226

Fomalhaut, star, 306

Food, provision of by chieftains, 102, 103, 118, 120: serpent accepting, test of chastity, 130; subject to