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Evil Spirit, see Devil
Eyebrows, meeting: the possessors fortunate, 112; indicate a werewolf in Iceland, Denmark, and Germany; a vampire in Greece, ib.
Eyes, charms for weak and sore: water from the cups of teasle, lammer-bead, and “kenning-stone,” 145
Face to be washed before killing anything, 113
Fadging, or eating fadge: the customary feasting at the new year, 75
Fairies: have power over children before baptism—kept away by knife in Yorkshire—their attempt to steal a new-born child near Selkirk, 14; elf-stones their breast-pins, 185; share with witches the odium of molesting our nurseries, 189; idiots thought their changelings in Western Islands, ib.; their name little used now in the North, 277; connected with places at Caldbeck, in Cumberland, ib.; dance near Coalbrookdale, ib.; once danced on Diddersley Hill, 328
Fairies’ horse, see Ragwort
Fairy, gregarious, see Shefro
Fairy or farye, belts to preserve from the; washing in south-running water to cure the, 141
Fastens or Fastings Eve, see Shrove Tuesday
Feathers of pigeons, game-birds, and cocks in bed make dying difficult, 60
February, first three days of, held to presage weather of the year (Highlands), 95
Fetches: Irish term for apparitions of living persons, 46
Fevers (ephemeral): blue woollen threads worn by nursing mothers as a charm against, 20; (scarlet) patient’s hair given to ass in fodder, 143
Fifeshire country house haunted, 325
Finchale Priory, wishing-chair at, 106; subterranean passage from, to Durham Cathedral, 320
Finger of thief used to stupefy in Belgium, 243
Fire not allowed to go out at Hallowed seasons, 72; Holy, of Germanic race, ib.; extinguished in Germany and lighted with fire kindled by the priest, ib.; dreaming of, forebodes sorrow and pain, 111; augury from, on All Hallow-e’en, 97
First-foot, see New Year’s Day
Fish: the marks on the John Dory; verse on the flounder; the parson’s miraculous draught, 312–13
Fishlake, bird-nesting season closes on 29th May at, 96
Flat-footed person: unlucky to meet one on Monday; how mischief averted, 117
Flora Day at Helston, 301–2
Folk-Lore of English people, its origin; much still unrecorded; its collection most desirable, 8; of the nursery, 9—in Sweden, 21
Font, baptism in a new one, fatal to child, 121
Fontinalia (Roman) and English well-dressing, 2
Foot: itching portends travelling, 112; of hanged man used to stupefy by thieves in Flanders, 243
Ford, wraith of the Rector seen on St. Mark’s Eve at, 52
