FARWARDIGAN (Persian feast), 168, 169 Fijian hymns, 72; periods of licence, 195, 196, 198; fire ceremony, 273, 277-283, 288 Fire-walking, 270 _et seq._ First-born, eating the, 54 First-fruits, 267 _et seq._ Fisher's ghost, 54 Fison, Mr. Lorimer, on the emerging of gods from ancestors, 50, 56 Foelsche, Mr., on savage belief in a benevolent creator or demiurge, 57 note, 58 Frazer, Mr. J. G., theories of: comparative study of human beliefs and institutions, 6, 7; religion the despair of magic, 10, 60; magic preceded the invention of god 47; limited definition of religion, 48, 59; the Australians who practise magic have little or no religion, 49-52; on the Jewish Passover, 53; its Australian parallel, 53, 54; speculative generalisations, 55; arbitrary selection of witnesses, 55-58; ascription of wrong beliefs to the Arunta, 61; inadvertent proof that irreligious Australians are religious, 62-65; invented powerful beings, 68; religion, the conciliation of higher powers by prayer and sacrifice, 69; shooting stars, 74; imported religious ideas, 75; origin of the belief in the divinity of Christ, 76-78; use of the legend of Dasius, 79, 109-115; mental prepossession on the Crucifixion, 80; double pairs of divinised human beings, 82; alleged mortality of gods, 85-94; religious regicide, 94-100; annual religious regicide, 101-104; mock kings, 103 _et seq._; persons who suffer for god-man kings, 104-107; survivals of human sacrifice at the Saturnalia, 109-115; modern Carnival, 110, 111; the Greek Cronia, 115-118; the Sacæa, 118-122; again mock kings, 120, 121, 123; attempts to prove the Sacæan criminal divine, 123-140; sacrifice by hanging, 127-132; date of the Sacæa, 135-138; the Sacæan victim, 138; analogies of Zakmuk, Sacæa, and Purim, 141-160; human victims at Purim, 153; connection of Mordecai, Esther, Vashti, and Haman with Babylonian and Elamite gods, 161; the ride of the beardless Persian buffoon, 168, 171, 301-305; festivals of licence, 185-199; divine scapegoat, 189; Calvary, 200-204; the ghastly priest of the grove of Diana, 206-223; the Quiteva, 234; taboo, 268; fire-walking, 270 Fuegian idea on flapper shooting, 267