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Folk-lore :
Devil's dam in a Cossack Stanitza, vii. 6
Devil's offering, iv. 68, 118
Drowned bodies recovered, i. 465 ; ii. 463, 526 ;
iii. 255 ; iv. 343 ; vi. 400 Epilepsy and thrush, xii. 47 Evil eye, v. 285 ; vii. 47; xi. 208 Fair and making fair, vii, 446 " Fig for him," ii. 185 Fire ceremonies, aboriginal, ii. 44 "First foot" on New Year's Day, i. 87, 249, 351;
xii. 505
Fishermen, viii. 105, 248 Flesh-eater, first, xii. 45, 514 Footprints, vi. 163, 223, 322, 391 French Robin Hood, xi. 169, 258, 410 Funeral, ix. 108
Funny-bone superstition, iii. 469 Gallows and birds' nesting- place, iv. 233 Geese as emblems of constancy, i. 365; ii. 114 Glas Ghairm, Highland incantation, v. 107 Goat, v. 248, 359, 521; vi. 132, 196 Gold, rubbing the eyes with, v. 104, 212 ; vi. 134 Green colour, ix. 234, 490 ; x. 32, 133, 853 ; xi. 32 Green fairies: Woolpit green children, v. 47, 155 Hair from the nape of the neck, xii. 187, 313 "Hal-an-Tow,"iv. 287 Hobgoblin's claws, xii. 189, 333 Horse and water-lore, i. 188, 412 How o' the Caillech (Old Wife), xi. 188 Humpbacks touched for luck, iii. 486 Japanese, vi. 468 Jutland, xi. 442 Kissing for luck, iv. 148 Knife greasing, x. 509 Lizard, vii. 67, 224, 436 Looking-glass, vi. 7, 131, 215, 350 Luck money, xi. 1 27, 358 Marriage, iv. 5, 112 ; viii. 445 Marriage and baptism, v. 54 Marriages, second-hand, iv. 266 'Master Thief,' Welsh gipsy story, iv. 161, 353 Mince-pie, xii. 505
Monster from the Tiber, iv. 226, 406 Moon lore, vii. 27, 96, 154 ; ix. 32 Mound burial, viii. 80, 151, 470 Myths, popular, xi. 348, 451 New Year's Day, i. 87, 249, 351; ii. 55 ; xii. 505 Norfolk hunter and hounds, ii. 188 North, superstitions about, ii. 55 Owl, xii. 113 Palm Sunday wind, i. 17 Partridge, viii. 202, 288 Pearl buttons as a cure for corns, ix. 10, 158 Perfection in quantity, ix. 325, 436 Pig killing in the wane of the moon, ix. 32 Poker virtue, v. 108
Primrose superstition, xi. 448 ; xii. 33, 234, 412 Rabbits and rheumatism, xii. 126 Raising the wind, x. 85, 253 Ring, silver, iv. 438
River not flowing on the Sabbath, xii. 19 Rolling-pins as charms, iii. 245, 337, 392, 438 ;
iv. 154, 235, 354 Russian, iii. 243, 385; xi. 47
Folk-lore :
Sailors and fishermen, viii. 105, 248
St. Roch's dog, xii. 189
Salt, placed under a corpse, ix. 228, 352 ; thrown on stairs, xii. 100
Serpent's feet, legend concerning, xii. 112
Sieve and shears, x. 455
Sneezing, ii. 55
Snow-feathers, viii. 403, 494 ; ix. 112, 292
Soudanese, ii. 224
Spanish, xii. 484
Spider, viii. 194 ; ix. 449
Spoons, gold, silver, and wooden, v. 7, 111, 172
Springs and wells, xi. 469
Star, ix. 227, 357
Stoning the wren, x. 95
Suicide, French, i. 488 ; ii. 132
Sun hissing when setting, xi. 138 ; xii. 391
Swept and garnished, vi. 327, 393
" Swim-shell, " iv. 68
Tenure by burnt offering, vi. 327
Thrush and epilepsy, xii. 47
Toad, ix. 426
Treasure superstition, xii. 275
Trees and the external soul, i. 37, 177
Trinity Sunday, xi. 224, 298 ; xii. 477
Vampires, Italian precautions against, i. 206
Wart curing, ii. 94
Weather, v. 436, 503, viii. Ill, 214, 491
Welsh church-building, xii. 422
Welsh corpse custom, iii. 208, 333
Whooping-cough and caterpillar, xii. 126
Wind, ix. 148, 338, 512
Wishing wells, iii. 443
Witches in the republic of Colombia, vii. 366
Worcestershire, vi. 410, 496 ; vii. 54, 255, 374
Yeth-hounds, i. 89, 295 Folk-lore or botany, xi. 148, 514 Folk-lorist on burnt sacrifice : mound burial, viii. 80 Folk-medicine, vi. 306 Folks, use of the plural form, xi. 369, 438, 470 ; xii.
50, 138
Follett (Samuel), Westminster scholar, 1771, x. 7, 58 Follies, architectural, x. 489 ; xi. 157 Fonblanque (John Anthony), his biography, v. 247,
500
Fond, its old and modern meanings, i. 365 ; ii. 34, 154 Font, its singular discovery, i. 383 Fontaines (H. de) on Fountain family, ix. 149 Fontayne (Sergeant), d. 1671, his biography, xi. 248 Fonte (Admiral), his voyage in ship called Holy
Ghost, ix. 268
Fontenay (Madame de) and Emmet family, corre- spondence, xii. 308 Fontenoy, Irish Brigade at the battle of, 1745, vii. 25,
114, 211, 333 ; the 42nd at, 286, 378 Fonts, churches without, ii. 268, 393 ; list of, ix. 447 ;
curious, x. 35
" Fool's plough," its meaning, i. 348 ; ii. 11 Foor=scent, ii. 467 Foot measure, its length, i. 388, 496 Foot of beef as a quantity, its meaning, vii. 510 Foot outlines as records of pilgrimage or visit, iv. 306,
463 Football on Shrove Tuesday, v. 283, 402, 486; vi. 55
