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Folklore : Old Customs and Tales of my Neighbours, by Fletcher Moss, reviewed, 100 Folklore, The, in the Legends of the Panjab, by Lt.-Col. R. C. Temple, 3S4 Folk- Lore Society, its work and pre- rogatives, 86 Folk-medicine as shown in Parish
registers, 475 Folk-Song Society, founding of, 67 Folk-tales from the Greek Islands, By W. R. Paton, The Three Apples, 495, The Ball of Silk, 498, The Three Heavenly Children, 499, The Pumpkin, 500 Fomalhaut, 36
Food, (^see also Cakes), carried from house to house, Calymnos, 181 ; fairy, best avoided, 121 ; magic, to secure son, 393 Forecasts, see Death-forecasts Foretelling the future, 152, 154 Forest, walking, Arabia, 230 Fortune-tellers, skill of, Wexford, 364 Fortune-telling, Indian folklore, 430-
431. 433 Foundlings in Indian folklore, 425,
426 Fowls flying about as omen of death,
264; black, use of eggs laid on
Thursday, 169 Fox, the, 117, in Iceland, 460; in
Ireland, 354, 361 ; in Japanese
myth, 317 France, folklore of (^see Normandy),
alien influences on, 79
ballads of and their travels, 99
Brittany, see JJgendes Locales,
and Veillees de Noel Paris, devils of Notre Dame,
359
sacred springs at Ambleteuse,
460 ; silence in mumming cere- monies of, 351 ; wide diffusion of legends of, 333 ; while rabbit, ill- omened in, 333
Freemen's dues, white bull as part of.
Freer, Miss A. Goodrich. The Powers of Evil in the Outer Hebrides, 259
Friday, old German augury for, 1 16; forbidden day for washing, Styria, 361 ; things lucky and unlucky to do on, Hebrides, 268
Friends, omen of separation if a living thing pass between them, 159
Frith or horoscope, Hebrides, 279 Frog's leg as cure for King's Evil,
480 Fruits, apples, 169, 495, fruit-trees
309, grapes, 179, pomegranates,
179, quince, 179 Fuath, the, Hebrides, 272 Fuegian natives, mental faculties of,
12 Funeral sacrifices, human, Egypt,
229, Japan, 322
Galway, Death or Deaf Coach in, 122, people carried to a distance by magic, ih.
Gambling ceremonial, Indian folk- lore, 429
Games, Children's, English, Scotch and Irish, 336, Cock-warning, 337, Green Grass, 338, Green Gravel, 1 12, King Ctesar, 336, Lamp-out, ib., Touch, and Cross- Touch, 338
in Indian folklore, Chaupur or
Pachisi, 430
marriage and funeral, confusion
between, 338
Garlands on May Day, Cos, 178 ; of May Ladies, King's Lynn, 443-4
Garlic in May garlands to protect against Evil Eye, 178
Gayandy Spirit, the, Australia, 493
Gebel Assart, paleolithic flints from,
87
Gelou, the witch, chaim against, 163
Geographical test figure for folklore research, Gomme, 141-3, Nutt on, 149
Germany, folklore of, birth auguries, 116 ; burning in effigy of Judas, at Heidelberg, 178; Pelzenichel festi- val observances, 180 ; switching cattle or passers-by, ib.
Ghosts, absence of from old Japanese literature, 321 ; Australian belief in, 16, later than that in gods, 44, 45 ; Icelandic, 460 ; at midnight, India, 395 : in Ireland, 120-2, obliged If) go wherever sent, 123
Ghouls, Scandinavian folklore, 460
(jiant, the, of Cerne, 482
(jiants, Scandinavian folklore, 459
Gifts, magic, 496, of Midnight Children, 1 15
Giraffe, in African folktales, 288
Girgenti, Sicily, swine slain and eaten at festival near, 253
