Ethiopian kings and their courtiers, i. 222 Etruscan wizards, i. 22 European rain-charm, i. 18; forests, i. 57; fire festivals, ii. 246-285 Evils, expulsion of, ii. 145 _sq._; occasional, ii. 158-162; periodic, ii. 162-182; two kinds of expulsion of evils, the direct or immediate, and the indirect or mediate, ii. 158; general observations on, ii. 202-206; transference of, ii. 145 _sq._ Fauns, representation of the, ii. 35; the Fauns wood and corn-spirits, ii. 35, 36 Feilenhof, the wolf a corn-spirit in, ii. 3 Feloupes of Senegambia, charm for rain-making, i. 18 Fern seed, midsummer, ii. 365, 366 Fernando Po, restrictions on the food of the king of, i. 208 Fever, cure for, ii. 152, 153 Fida, no one to drink out of the king’s glass in, i. 166 Field of Mars, chariot race on the, ii. 64-66 Fiji, charm used for staying the sun in, i. 24; gods of, i. 39; soul extraction in, i. 138; belief in two souls in, i. 145; eating in the presence of suspected persons avoided in, i. 160; self-immolation at old age in, i. 216; expulsion of devils in, ii. 175, 176; initiatory rites in, ii. 344, 345; offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 377, 378 Finland, wind selling in, i. 27; cattle protected by the wood god in, i. 105, 106; ceremony at the killing of a bear in, ii. 112 Fire festivals, human sacrifices offered at, i. 251 —— festivals in Europe, ii. 246-285; they were charms to make the sun shine, ii. 267, 274 —— kings, i. 53-56 —— sacred, made by the friction of wood, ii. 269; made with oak wood, ii. 292, 293 Fire spirit, expulsion of the, ii. 178 Firstborn sacrificed, i. 236, 237 First-fruits, festival of the, ii. 75-78; offerings of, ii. 373-384 Fish, respect shown by savages to, ii. 118-122; fish preachers, ii. 119, 120 Fladda’s chapel and wind-making, i. 26, 27 Flamen Dialis, rules of life, i. 117; not allowed to walk under a trellised vine, i. 183, 184; cuttings from the hair and nails buried, i. 200; restriction on the food of the, i. 207 —— Virbialis, i. 6 Flaminica, rules of life for the, i. 117, 118 Flanders, midsummer bonfires in, ii. 267; Flemish cure for ague, ii. 153 Flax-pullers, custom of the, i. 375 Florence, “sawing the old woman” in, i. 261 Florida, sacrifice of the firstborn by the Indians of, i. 236, 237 Folk tales, resurrection in, ii. 125 Food, unconsumed, buried, i. 166; prohibited food, i. 207, 208; strong food, ii. 85 Forests, Europe covered with, in prehistoric times, i. 56 Fors, the, of Central Africa, preservation of nail parings by the, i. 204, 205 Forsaken sleeper, i. 96 Foulahs of Senegambia spare the crocodile, ii. 110 France, harvest customs in the northeast of, ii. 4 Franche Comté, harvest customs in, ii. 17 Frankish kings not allowed to cut their hair, i. 193 Friedingen, harvest custom in, ii. 27 Friesland, harvest customs in East, ii. 8 Frog-flayer, i. 92 Funeral custom, i. 129, 130