Fifty-two years, Aztec cycle of, i. 310 _sq._ Fig Dionysus, i. 4 —— trees, sacred wild, ii. 113 Fiji, sacrifice of first-fruits in, ii. 125 Finns, their propitiation of slain bears, ii. 223 _sq._ Fire not given out, i. 249; god of, ii. 93; made by friction of wood, 127, 136, 314; purification by, 249; not to be blown upon, 254; new, ii. 65, 74, 75, 78; sacred, i. 311, ii. 255, 314; festival of, ii. 135 “Fireless and Homeless,” a mythical giant, ii. 265, 266 Fire-sticks called “husband and wife,” ii. 65 Fires extinguished, ii. 73 Firing guns to repel demons, ii. 99 Firmicus Maternus, i. 13 First-fruits offered to Demeter, i. 46 _sqq._; offered to Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, 53 _sqq._; offered to the sun, 237; primitive reluctance to taste, ii. 6; sacrament of, 48 _sqq._; offered to goddess of agriculture, 56; why savages scruple to eat the, 82 _sq._; sacrifice of, 109 _sqq._; presented to the king, 109, 116, 122; offered to the spirits of the dead, 109 _sq._, 111 _sqq._, 115, 116, 119, 121, 123, 124 _sqq._ Fish, sacred, ii. 26; the first caught, sacrificed, 132; not eaten, 140; treated with respect by fishing tribes, 249 _sqq._; compensated by fishermen, 252; first of the season, treated ceremoniously, 253 _sqq._; souls of dead in, 285, 291, 295 —— bones of, not burned, ii. 250, 251; not to be broken, 255 Fison, Rev. Lorimer, quoted, ii. 125 Flail, pretence of throttling persons with flail at threshing, i. 149, 150 Flamen Dialis, inaugurates the vintage, ii. 133 Flax-mother, i. 133 Flesh of human victim eaten, i. 240, 244, 251; buried in field, 248, 250 —— diet, homoeopathic magic of a, ii. 138 _sqq._ Flies, charms against, ii. 281; souls of dead in, 290 _sq._ Florida, one of the Solomon Islands, ii. 85, 126 Flowery Dionysus, i. 4 Fly-catcher Zeus, ii. 282 Flying-fish, the first of the season, ii. 127 —— fox, transmigration of sinner into, ii. 299 Folk-tales, tongues of wild beasts cut out in, ii. 269 Foods forbidden to enchanters of crops, i. 100; certain, forbidden to meet in stomach of eater, ii. 83 _sqq._ Fool, one of the mummers on Plough Monday, ii. 330 —— -hen, heart of, not eaten, ii. 140 Foot, limping on one, i. 232, 284 Foucart, P., i. 32 _n._ 6 Foulahs of Senegambia, ii. 214 Fox, stuffed, i. 287, 297; corn-spirit as, 296 _sq._; carried from house to house in spring, 297; Koryak ceremony at killing a, ii. 223; Esquimau and Aino treatment of dead, 244, 267; soul of dead in a, 286 Fox’s tail, name given to last standing corn, i. 268 —— tongue as amulet, ii. 270 Foxy Dionysus, ii. 282 France, harvest customs in, i. 135, 271, 275, 280, 295, 296; hunting the wren in, ii. 320 _sq._ Franche-Comté, harvest customs in, i. 281, 286 _sq._ Franken (Franconia), harvest customs in, i. 148 Friction of wood, fire made by, ii. 127, 136; new fire made by, i. 311, ii. 74, 78; sacred fire made by, 314