Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Felkin, Dr. R. W., 534 |
| Feloupes of Senegambia, 74 |
| Female kinship or mother-kin defined, 152; indifference to paternity of kings under, 154; at Athens, 155; among the Aryans, 155 |
| Fern-seed, 704, 705 |
| Fernando Po, taboos observed by the kings of, 172, 238 |
| Fertilisation, artificial, 114, 378, 580, 582; of barren women, 581 |
| Fertility, Diana as a goddess of, 8; of women, magical images designed to ensure the, 14 |
| Fetish kings in West Africa, 177 |
| Feuillet, Madame Octave, 306 |
| Fever, cures for, 343–345 |
| Fig, artificial fertilisation of the, 378; human scapegoat beaten with branches of the wild, 579 |
| Fig-tree, the sacred, 136; artificial fertilisation of the, 580, 582 |
| Fiji Islands, the, conception of the soul in, 179; notion of the absence of the soul in dreams in, 182; catching away souls in, 187; supposed effect of using chief’s dishes or clothes in, 202; custom at cutting a chief’s hair in, 233; birth-trees in, 682; drama of death and resurrection in, 695 |
| Finland, cattle protected by the woodland spirits in, 141 |
| Finnish-Ugrian peoples, sacred groves of the, 111 |
| Finnish wizards and witches, 81 |
| Finns, 521 |
| Fire, the god of, 23; kept burning for the sake of absent warriors, 26; supposed to be subject to Catholic priests, 53; used to stop rain, 64; as a charm to rekindle the sun, 78; and Water, kings of, 108, 176, 266; kindled by friction, 161, 534, 617, 618, 620, 627, 639, 644, 707; purification by, 197, 198, 213, 648; “new,” 485, 614; sacred, 486, 534; “living,” 638; “wild,” 638; made by means of a wheel, 639; of heaven, 644; extinguished by mistletoe, 659, 662, 706; primitive ideas as to the origin of, 707. See also Bonfires, Fires, Need-fire. |
| Fire-festivals of Europe, the, 609; interpretation of, 641; solar theory of, 642, 643; purificatory theory of, 642, 647; at the solstices, 643; a protection against witchcraft, 648; their relation to Druidism, 654 |
| Fires, perpetual, 3, 161, 163, 665, 704; the Lenten, 609; Easter, 614; Beltane, 617; Midsummer, 622; Hallowe’en, 632, 635; Midwinter, 636; extinguished before lighting the need-fire, 639; burning of effigies in the, 650; burning of men and women in the, 652; the solstitial, perhaps suncharms, 706 |
| First-fruits, 170, 177, 396, 431, 467, 479, 482, 487 |
| Fish, magical image to procure, 18; sacred, 473; treated with respect by fishing tribes, 527; external soul in a golden, 676 |
| Fishers tabooed, 216 |
| Fishing, homoeopathic magic in, 18 |
| Flamen Dialis, the, 151, 235, 244; rules of life prescribed for, 174 |
| Flaminica, the, 151; rules observed by, 174 |
| Flanders, Midsummer fires in, 630, 646; the Yule log in, 637 |
| Flax, homoeopathic magic at sowing, 28; prayers of old Prussians for the growth of, 288; giddiness transferred to, 545; leaping over bonfires to make it grow tall, 613, 624, 626 |
| Flax-mother, 399 |
| Flight of the king, at Rome, 157 |
| Flowers, goddess of, 588 |
| Flute, magical, made from human leg-bone, 30; skill of Marsyas on the, 354 |
| Folk-customs, the external soul in, 678–701 |
| Folk-tales, the external soul in, 667–678 |
| Food, homoeopathic magic for supply of, 17; eaten dry, 21, 29, 68; tabooed, 21, 22, 238; taboos on leaving food over, 200 |
| Fools, Bishop of, 586 |
| Footprints, contagious magic of, 44, 45 |
| Foreskins used in rain-making, 65 |
| Fowler, W. Warde, 709 |
| Foxes, burnt in Midsummer fires, 656, 657; witches turn into, 657 |
| Framin in West Africa, dance of women at, 26 |
| France, contagious magic in, 44; peasants ascribe magical powers to priests, 53, 54; images of saints dipped in water as a rain-charm in, 77; kings of, touch for scrofula, 90; custom of the Harvest-May in, 118; May customs in, 121; the May-pole in, 124; harvest customs in, 341, 448–450, 453, 455, 457–459; the Corn-mother in, 401; the dough man in, 480; hunting the wren in, 537; the King of the Bean in, 586; expulsion of witches in, 561; Lenten fires in, 610; Midsummer fires in, 628–630, 645; the Yule log in, 637; wicker-work giants burnt in, 655; mistletoe in, 662; birth-trees in, 682 |
| Franche-Comté, dances in, to make hemp grow, 28; the goat at threshing in, 456 |
| Frey, the Scandinavian god of fertility, 143 |
| Fricktal, Switzerland, the Whitsuntide Lout in, 128; the Whitsuntide Basket in, 129 |
| Friction, fire kindled by. See under Fire |
| Friesland, East, the clucking hen at threshing in, 451 |
| Frigg, the Norse goddess, and Balder, 607 |
| Frog in magic, 31, 73, 131; maladies transferred to frogs, 544 |
| Frog-flayer, the, in Whitsuntide pageant, 130 |
| Frosinone in Latium, burning an effigy of the Carnival at 302 |
| Fruit-trees, fertilised by fruitful women, 28; homoeopathic magic in relation to, 29; threatened to make them bear fruit, 113; worshippers of Osiris forbidden to injure, 380; wrapt in straw as a precaution against evil spirits, 561; fires lit under, 632; fumigated with smoke of need-fire, 641; fertilised by burning torches, 647 |
| Fuegian charm to make the wind drop, 80 |