Euripides, his play on Meleager, ii. 103 _n._ 2 Europe, superstitions as to menstruous women in, i. 96 _sq._; the fire-festivals of, 106 _sqq._; great dread of witchcraft in, 342; birth-trees in, ii. 165; belief in, that strength of witches and wizards is in their hair, 158 Eurydice, Orpheus and, ii. 294 Eve of Samhain (Hallowe’en) in Ireland, i. 139 Everek (Caesarea), in Asia Minor, creeping through a rifted rock at, ii. 189 Evil eye, protection against, i. 17 —— spirit, mode of cure for possession by an, ii. 186 Evil spirits driven away at the New Year, i. 134 _sq._; kept off by fire, 282, 285 _sq._; St. John’s herbs a protection against, ii. 49; kept off by flowers gathered at Midsummer, 53 _sq._; creeping through cleft trees to escape the pursuit of, 173 _sqq._ _See also_ Demons Ewe negroes, their dread of menstruous women, i. 82 Exogamous classes in Duke of York island, ii. 248 _n._ Exorcizing vermin with torches, i. 340 Exorcism of evil spirits, i. 5; and ordeals, 66; at Easter, 123; use of St. John’s wort in, ii. 55; use of mugwort in, 60; by vervain, 62 _n._ 4 Expulsion of demons, annual, i. 135 External soul in folk-tales, ii. 95 _sqq._; in folk-custom, 153 _sqq._; in inanimate things, 153 _sqq._; in plants, 159 _sqq._; in animals, 196 _sqq._; kept in totem, 220 _sqq._ _See also_ Souls, External Extinction of common fires before the kindling of the need-fire, i. 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277 _sq._, 279, 283, 285, 288, 289, 289 _sq._, 291, 291 _sq._, 292, 294, 297, 298 _sq._; ceremonial, of fires, ii. 297 _sq._ Eye, the evil, cast on cattle, i. 302, 303; oleander a protection against the, ii. 51 Eyes, looking through flowers at the Midsummer fire, thought to be good for the, i. 162, 163, 165 _sq._, 171, 174 _sq._, 344; ashes or smoke of Midsummer fire supposed to benefit the, 214 _sq._; sore, attributed to witchcraft, 344; mugwort a protection against sore, ii. 59; of newly initiated lads closed, 241 Eyre, E. J., on menstruous women in Australia, i. 77 “Faery dairts” thought to kill cattle, i. 303 _Failles_, bonfires, i. 111 _n._ 1 Fair, great, at Uisnech in County Meath, i. 158 Fairies let loose at Hallowe’en, i. 224 _sqq._; carry off men’s wives, 227; at Hallowe’en, dancing with the, 227; thought to kill cattle by their darts, 303; active on Hallowe’en and May Day, ii. 184 _n._ 4, 185 Fairy changelings, i. 151 _n._; mistletoe a protection against, ii. 283 Falcon stone, at Errol, in Perthshire, ii. 283 Falkenstein chapel of St. Wolfgang, creeping through a rifted rock near the, ii. 189 Falling sickness, mistletoe a remedy for, ii. 83, 84 Famenne in Namur, Lenten fires in, i. 108 Familiar spirits of wizards in boars, ii. 196 _sq._ Fans of the French Congo, birth-trees among the, ii. 161