Fisheries supposed to be spoiled by menstruous women, i. 77, 78, 90 _sq._, 93 Fison, Rev. Lorimer, on Fijian religion, ii. 244 _n._ 1, 2, 3, 246 _n._ 1 Fittleworth, in Sussex, cleft ash-trees used for the cure of rupture at, ii. 169 _sq._ Flames of bonfires, omens drawn from, i. 159, 165, 336 Flanders, Midsummer fires in, i. 194; the Yule log in, 249; wicker giants in, ii. 35 Flax, leaping over bonfires to make the flax grow tall, i. 119; charms to make flax grow tall, 165, 166, 173, 174, 176, 180 —— crop, omens of the, drawn from Midsummer bonfires, i. 165 —— seed sown in direction of flames of bonfire, i. 140, 337 Fleabane as a cure for headache, i. 17 Fleas, leaping over Midsummer fires to get rid of, i. 211, 212, 217 Flight into Egypt, the, ii. 69 _n._ Flints, fire kindled by, i. 121, 124, 126, 127, 145, 146, 159 Floor, sitting on the, at Christmas, i. 261 Florence, ceremony of the new fire at Easter in, i. 126 _sq._ Florus and Laurus, feast of, on August 18th, i. 220 Flowers thrown on bonfire, ii. 8; external souls in, 117 _sq._ _See also_ Crown —— and herbs cast into the Midsummer bonfires, i. 162, 163, 172, 173 —— at Midsummer thrown on roofs as a protection against lightning, i. 169; festival of, 177 _sq._; as talismans, 183; in fires, 184, 188, 190; wreaths of, hung over doors and windows, 201; placed on mouths of wells, ii. 28; divination from, 50 —— on Midsummer Eve, blessed by St. John, i. 171; the magic flowers of Midsummer Eve, ii. 45 _sqq._; used in divination, 52 _sq._; used to dream upon, 52, 54 Flutes, sacred, played at initiation, ii. 241 Fly River, in British New Guinea, ii. 232 “Flying-rowan” (parasitic rowan), superstitions in regard to, ii. 281; used to make a divining-rod, 281 _sq._ Foam of the sea, the demon Namuci killed by the, ii. 280; the totem of a clan in India, 281 Fo-Kien, province of China, festival of fire in, ii. 3 _sqq._ Folgareit, in the Tyrol, Midsummer custom at, ii. 47 Folk-custom, external soul in, ii. 153 _sqq._ —— -tales, the external soul in, ii. 95 _sqq._ Follies of Dunkirk, ii. 34 _sq._ Food, sacred, not allowed to touch the ground, i. 13 _sq._; girls at puberty not allowed to handle, 23, 28, 36, 40 _sq._, 42 Foods, forbidden, i. 4, 7, 19, 36 _sq._, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 54, 56, 57, 58, 68, 77, 78, 94 “Fool’s Stone” in ashes of Midsummer fire, i. 195 Forbidden thing of clan, ii. 313 Forchheim, in Bavaria, the burning of Judas at Easter in, i. 143 Foreskins of young men offered to ancestral spirits in Fiji, ii. 243 _sq._ Forespeaking men and cattle, i. 303 Forgetfulness of the past after initiation, ii. 238, 254, 256, 258, 259, 266 _sq._ Forked shape of divining-rod, ii. 67 _n._ 3 “Forlorn fire,” need-fire, i. 292 _Foulères_, bonfires, i. 111 _n._ 1 Foulkes, Captain, quoted, ii. 210 Four kinds of wood used to make the divining-rod, ii. 69, 291