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Index.
Fish in folklore : {see also Carp ; Cray- fish ; Herring ; Mud-fish ; Nar- whal ; Nlumbii ; Octopus ; Prawn ; Salmon ; Shark ; and Shrimp) ; as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 303 {plate) ; elixir vitse obtained from. Lower Congo, 58 ; men descended from, Greeks, 424 ; scarce after shipwrecks, Cornwall, 488 ; scarcity due to removing stone, Manipur, 135 ; tabued as food. Lower Congo, 309
Fish-hawk : in myth, Australia,
341 Fishing customs and beliefs : burry- man, Scotland, 91-2, 227 ; evil eye, Norway, 322 ; hereditary fisher- men, Fiji, 253 ; lucky and un- lucky acts and haps, Norway, 321-3 ; needfire as charm, Norway,
322-3 Fison, Rev. Lorimer : obituary of,
144-59, 165, 172-3
Fits : looking-glass tabued to sufferer. Lower Congo, 309
Five : days of tabus after a death, Eskimo, 377 ; days of tabu and exposure of heads, Assam, 135, 138;
Flood legends, see Deluge legends
Flowers in folklore : {see also Apple- tree ; Broom plant ; Campanula ; Chrysanthemum ; Hawthorn-tree ; Lotus lily ; Peony ; Rose-tree ; Snowdrop ; Strawberry plant ; and Violet) ; patterns on Easter eggs, Roumanians, 301 (plates)
Flute : in folk-tale, Assam, 413
Fly : as death omen, Staffordshire, 220
Flycatcher : in myth, Australia, 340
Foal, see Horse
Fog : myth of origin of, Eskimo,
Folk-lore Ounots Moderne, by L. Wieger, reviewed, 517, 519-20
Folklore collection, difficulties of, 227-8
Folklore di Isnello, by Prof. S. C. Grisanti, reviewed, 516
Folklore Notes from Western Aus- tralia, by R. H. Mathews, 340-2
Folklore Scraps from Several Locali- ties, by Mrs. A. B. Gomme, 72-83
Folk-Lore Society : in Denmark, 120-2 ; English, origin and work of, 13-31
Folk- Memory ; or. The Continuity of British Archceology, by W. Johnson, reviewed, 101-2
Folk-music: Guernsey, 11 7-9 ; origin and nature of, 97-101 ; Tyrol, 517
Folk-sayings, see Proverbs
Folk-songs : Australia, 487 ; Canada,
119 ; Channel islands, 117-9 ; Den- mark, 120 ; Sharp's English Folk- Song reviewed, 97-IOI ; Faroes, 120; France, 119; Greenland,
120 ; Malta, 37 1 -3 ; Roumanians, 301 ; Scotland, 86-8; Tyrol, 516-7
Folk-tales : {see also under various types, such as Devil Outwitted) ; Asia Minor, 125 ; Australia, 126, 214-6, 340-2, 485-7 ; Balkan Penin., 125 ; Berbers, 125 ; Caucasus, 125; China, 517-20; dissemination of, 17-28 ; Egypt, 125 ; England, 75-6, 78, lOi, 205, 217-8, 219-20; Eskimo, 377-9; Fiji islands, 155 ; Gaelic, 242-3 ; Germany, 324 ; Hausa, 374-6 ; India, 125, 134, 141, 248-9, 388- 420, 438, 483, 504-9 ; Ireland, 106, 243> 361-3 ; Italy, 516 ; Japan, 249- 52; Java, 124-5 ; Lower Congo, 58-9, 209-11, 476; Malaysia, 125; Mon- gols, 125 ; Morocco, 125 ; Nandi, 247-8 ; Dahnhiirdt's Aatzcrsagen reviewed, 514-5 ; Norway, 323-36 ; Russia, 125 ; Sarawak, 83-5 ; Scandinavia, 323-36, 378 ; Camp- bell's The Seven Sages of Rome reviewed, 1 15-6; Socotra, 125; Swahili, 432-56 ; Switzerland, 324; Tunis, 125 ; Wales, 106
Folk- Tales of Hindustan, by Shaikh Chilli, reviewed, 248-9
Folk-Tales of the Lushais and their neighbours, by J. Shakespear, 388- 413, and notes, 413-20 {plates)
Foot : lucky deeds with, Worcester- shire, 345 ; omens from stumbling, see Omens ; to show or touch with sole is insult. Lower Congo, 471 ; to strike is to curse, Lower Congo,
471
Football : New Year's Day, Kirkwall,
481 Ford: "hand of glory," 219. Fordyce : New Year custom, 482 Forefinger, see Fingers Fossils in folklore, see Shark Four-footed Man : aNote on Greek An- thropology, by E. E. Sikes, 421-31
