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Fowls : {see also Cock ; and Hen) ; chickens as Easter-egg patterns, Roumanians, 302 [plate) ; in folk- tale, Assam, 401-2 ; in love charm, Lower Congo, 40 ; May chicks thrive not, Cornwall, 488 ; sacri- ficed. Lower Congo, 40, 43, 480 ; in sympathetic magic, S. India, 482-3 ; white, in borrowing custom, Lower Congo, 33
Fox : in folk-tale, China, 519
Fi-a Dansk Folkemindesainling, Aled- delelser og Sporsinal, reviewed, 120-2
France, see Bas-Quercy ; Bretagne ; Hautes Pyrenees ; atid Loire In- ferieure
Frazer, J. G. : Beliefs and Customs of the Australian Aborigines, 350- 2 ; communications from, 202-3 ; Howitt and Fison, 144-80
Friday : {see also Good Friday) ; bed not turned on, Oxfordshire, 218 ; in love charm, Staffordshire, 221 ; nails not cut on, Worcestershire, 346 ; unlucky. South Downs, 64 ; Staffordshire, 221 ; the most witch- ing night, Staffordshire, 221
Friendly islands, see Tonga
Frog : bull-f., tabu on eating, Lower Congo, 308 ; as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 302 ; in folk-tales, Assam, 412; Staffordshire, 220; Swahili, 455 ; in Gothamite tale, Staffordshire, 220 ; sacrificed. Lower Congo, 4S0 ; in war charm. Lower Congo, 35
Fruit and vegetables in folklore : [see also Beans ; Blackberry ; Cassava ; Cherry; Cucumber ; Gourd ; Melon ; Onion ; Potato ; and Pumpkin) ; as Easter-egg decorations, Rou- manians, 301
Fruit-trees : (see also Apple-tree ; and Cherry-tree) ; fruit not eaten if struck by lightning. Lower Congo, 475 ; second flowering a sign of death, Durham, 73
Fujiyama : goddess cures smallpox, 252 ; sacred, 252
Fungi : not kicked, Worcestershire,
343 Future life, beliefs about, see Death and funeral customs and beliefs
Gaelic Fairy Tales, by W. M. Parker, reviewed, 242-3
Gaheris, in Arthur romances, 281, 291 Gaidoz, H. : Lycanthropie sous la
Revolution Fran9aise, 207-8 Gainford : folklore scraps, 72-7 Galahad, in Arthur romances, 282,
361-3
Gallaorin, in Arthur romances, 292
Gambling : Lower Congo, 462
Games : associated with ghost tales, Japan, 250 ; Lower Congo, 457-62; New Year's Day, Scotland, 481 ; Nyassaland, 245 ; Palm Sunday, Wilts, 81 ; Shrove Tuesday, Eng- land, 121 ; singing, Guernsey, 1 17-8, India, 337-40 ; Three-ball, Den- mark, 121
Garments, see Clothes
Gaster, M. : The History of the De- struction of the Round Table as told in Hebrew in the Year 1279, 272-94 ; reviews by, — Strack's The feiv and Hitman Sacrifice, 51 1-3; Thompson's Semitic Magic, 379-83 ; Wheeler's The Zonal-Belt Hypo- thesis, 367-9
Gate : omen from goodbye at, Wor- cestershire, 346
Gavarnie : sundial, 69 {plate)
Gawain, in Arthur romances, 281, 283-4, 291-4, 498, 501-2
Gazelle : in folk-tale, Lower Congo, 209-11 ; tabu on flesh, LowerCongo, 308
German band brings rain, England, Fifeshire, 348, 490
Germany : {see also Elsass) ; mountain dairies, beliefs about, 324
Gersik : in legend of Raden Pakou, 124
Ghosts: Bengali, 484; corpse maimed to disable, Australia, 93 ; cross- roads haunted, 89 ; Durham, 75 ; fear of, strengthens respect for life, 242 ; in folk-tales, Assam, 410, Eskimo, 378, Japan, 250- 1 ; in games, Japan, 250 ; of inanimate nature livelier than those of dead, Japan, 251 ; niatombola. Lower Congo, 193-4, 195,476-7 ; return as white people, Australia, 93 ; reven- ants, Norway, 336 ; revisit living at will. Lower Congo, 55 ; Semitic, 381 ; shito damn, Japan, 251 ; as shooting stars. Lower Congo, 476
Giants : farm named from, Norway, 315; in folk-tales, Assam, 396-9, Eskimo, 378, Norway, 328-32 ;
