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Index.
Forest, see Trees
Fork : omen from, Quebec, 346
Fortanne : burial place, 210
Forts, Clare, 204-5, 208
Forty: as place name, Greece etc., 218
Fossils in folklore, 45-60
Foundation sacrifices : Balkans, 227
Four : among Bavili, 144
Fowler, W. Warde : The Oak and the Thunder-God, 480-1
Fowls : [see also Cock ; Hen) ; breastbone in divination, Bal- kans, 225 ; in purificatory rite, Assam, 468
Fox : charm against, Japan, 190 ; detecting, Japan, 193 ; in folk- tale, Armenians, 220-3 ; in magic, Japan, 185-6 ; shape- shifting detected, Japan, 185
Fractures, charm against, Mohave- Apache, 172
Frampton Mansell : fair, 443; town removal, 337
France : [see also Alpes Maritimes Ardennes ; Bretagne ; Celts Corsica ; Gascony ; Hainaut Normandy ; Savoy ; Vosges) celts, 66, 70 ; comparative notes on Quebec folklore, 345-7; omens,
346-7
Frazer, Dr. J. G. : communica- tions by, 224, 229
Freire-Marreco, Miss B. : The " Dreamers " of the Mohave- Apache Tribe, 146, 172-4
French mallow : seeds as amulets,
234
Friday : (see also Good Friday) ; lucky, Ireland, 214, Malabar, 38; no marriage or leaving home. Piedmont, 459 ; omen from birth on, Quebec, 462 ; in prun- ing trees, France, 345 ; turning beds unluck}-, Kent, 354
Frocester : well, 335
Frog : bull-f. clan, Suk, 401 ; in charm, Balkans, 225-6 ; charm against, Japan, 191 ; in folk- medicine, Donegal, 476, Oxon.,
357 Fruit and vegetables, see Apple ; Ash-tree ; Beans ; Betel-nut ; French mallow ; Gourd ; Hai- mang ; Hei-ruk ; Lemon ; Lime fruit ; Mandrake apple ; Nut-
meg ; Orange ; Peach ; Pear ; Peas ; Plantain fruit ; Plum ; Pomegranate ; Potato ; Service- tree ; Walnut ; Water-melon
Fruit-trees, see Trees
Fuegians, see Tierra del Fuego
Fulgurites, 123
Funeral customs and beliefs, see Death and funeral customs and beliefs
Funeral Feast : Communal Eating of the Corpse, by W. Crooke,
"5
Future life, beliefs about, see Death and funeral customs and beliefs
Gambling : China, 270
Game of " Thread the Needle," The, and Custom of Church Clipping, by Miss J. B. Part- ridge, 196-203
Games : (see also under names) ; England, 196-203, 383, 445-6 ; Iowa, 407 ; Japan, 408 ; Kame- run, 406 ; Muppans, 33-4 ; New Guinea, 406 ; Todas, 140
Gandaka river : fossils, 59
Gangrene, cure for, 491
Ganjam, see Savaras
Garlands : May, Hunts, 353
Garos : milk tabooed, 287 -
Gascoins Powder, 496
Gascony : pruning trees, 345
Gaul, see France
Geasa, see Taboos
Genealogies : Baganda, 134-5
Geomancy, 188
Georgia : folk-tales, 487, 489
German}- : (see also Bavaria ; Lippe-Detmold ; Mecklenburg); folk-tales, 507-8 ; St. Boniface's pence, 46 ; thunderbolts, 66, 77,
123
Gets : folk-tale, 127
Ghosts : animal, Glos., 340, Here- fordshire, 351, 384-5 ; Clare, 214 ; dreams as origin of belief, 152-6 ; and fairies, 256-7 ; feared, Baganda, 136, Mohave- Apache, 173; Glos. ,^335. 339-40, 342 ; as guardians, Baganda, 135 ; Herefordshire, 351, 384 ; of infants malicious, Assam, 463; libations to, E. Africa, 401 ; as origins of belief in unseen beings, 15 1-2 ; prayer to, China, 270 ; worshipped, Baganda, 135-6
