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
