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Fire, constant, kept up during illness, Ireland, 51

—— drill, use of by Ainos, 47

—— fairy changeling, disappears at the, Sutherlandshire, 216

—— kindled by lightning only extinguished by milk, Arab, 211

—— origin of, Polynesia, 147-148

Fires, Midsummer, Clare, 54; St. John's, Roscommon, 56; Tyrone, 58

Fleas, origin of, Aino, 8

Fly, man enabled to, Aino, 46

Flying with the fairies, Sutherlandshire, 220

Folk-tales, Mr. Lang's theory as to origin of, 214-215

Food, consequence of eating, in Hades (fairy land), Aino, 35

—— fairy, nature of, 220

Forests, destruction of, by dragon, Sutherlandshire, 157

Foster, (J. J.), Dorsetshire Folk-Lore, 115-119

Fox, the lame, Servian story, 252-262

Foxes, worship of, Aino, 10-11, 20, 21; transfer of, into human shape, Aino, 13-15, 23; friendship with dogs, Aino, 16; deceptions of, Aino 17, 18, 31; Sutherlandshire, 250-252

France, Easter custom in, 210

——— saints who have slain dragons in, 159

Frazer (J. G.), Totemism, review of, 83-84; A Spanish Easter Custom, 210; Folk-Lore at Balquhidder, 268-271

Friday, unluck of, Longford, 61

Frisian funeral rite, 77

Funeral rite, Frisian, 77

Furniture, creaking of, omen of death, Ross-shire, 263


Gallows, rescue of criminal by woman marrying him, 144

Games, see "Common," "Shinny," "Singing"

Germany, folk-lore of whistling, 209

Ghost stories, Sutherlandshire, 240, 242, 244; Washington 89

——— visit of, to New Year's feast, Sutherlandshire, 183

Giant of Barra, Sutherlandshire story, 162

Giants, Hungarian folk-tale, 201; Sutherlandshire story, 181-182

——— last of the, Sutherlandshire, 169-170

Giants, sleeping, Sutherlandshire story, 164

Gilbert (St.) and the dragon, Sutherlandshire, 157-158

Glass hill in Hungarian folk-tale, 200

Goblins of Feroe Islands, 132; Sutherlandshire, 188

Gods, intercourse of, with human beings, Aino, 8, 36, 38; Malay, 138

Gold castle, in Hungarian folk-tale, 203

—— used for cure of disease, Feroe Islands, 133

Good and evil, origin of, 19

Goose and the fox, Sutherlandshire story, 250-251

——— on Michaelmas day, Longford, 62

Gospel, magic power of, Sligo, 52

Granbree, supper of, on Hallow e'en, Longford, 62

Gratitude of animals, and consequent help of, to man, 22

Green maidens, in Sutherlandshire legend, 163

———— river spirit, 228

Gregor, (Rev.W.), Folk-Lore of Achterneed, 262-265

Gretna, charms and spells at, 189-190


Hairy monsters in the sky, 95

Halibut, Jewish notions concerning, 273

Hallowe'en customs, Clare, 54; Longford, 62; Perthshire, 270

Hammer, magic, Sutherlandshire, 157

Hare, origin of the, Aino, 9

—— witch transformed into, 222

Hartland (E. S.) The Treasure on the Drim, 125-128; Dafydd William Dafydd and the fairies, 191-193

Harvest customs at Balquhidder, 268-271

Harvey (D. F. A.) Traditions of the Mentra or Aborigines of Malacca and the adjoining States, 64-74

Hazel tree superstition. 229, 248

Hearts of animals used as preventives, 1 16

Heaven beyond the sky, visit to, Aino, 20

Heligoland, book on customs of, 214

Hell-stone. Dolmen so called, 117

Hell, visit to, Aino, 35, 37

Henry IV. death of, 151

Herds of Glen Guar, Sutherlandshire story, 182

Herodotus, Euterpe, second book of, by A. Lang, reviewed, 213-214