ii. 337

Freiburg in Switzerland, Lenten fires in, x. 119; fern and treasure on St. John’s Night in, xi. 288

Freising, in Bavaria, creeping through a narrow opening in the cathedral of, xi. 189

“French and English” or the “Tug-of-war” as a religious or magical rite, ix. 174 _sqq._

French cure for fever by tying patient to tree, ix. 55; for whooping-cough by passing patient under an ass, xi. 192 _n._ 1

—— custom of crowning cattle on Mid-summer Day, ii. 127

—— Islands, use of bull-roarers in the, xi. 229 _n._

—— peasants ascribe magical powers to priests, i. 231-233; their superstition as to a virgin and a flame, ii. 240, x. 139 _n._; regulate their sowing and planting by the moon, vi. 133 _n._ 3, 135

—— reapers, their saying at reaping the last corn, vii. 268

Fresh and green, beating people, ix. 270 _sq._

Fresh meat tabooed to persons who have handled a corpse, iii. 143

Frey, the Scandinavian god of fertility, vi. 100 _sq._; his human wife, ii. 143 _sq._; his image and festival at Upsala, ii. 364 _sq._

Freycinet, L. de, on a Hawaiian festival, iv. 118 _n._ 1

Frickthal, Switzerland, the Whitsuntide Lout in the, ii. 81; the Whitsuntide Basket in the, ii. 83

Friction of wood, fire kindled by, ii. 207 _sqq._, 235 _sqq._, 243, 248 _sqq._, 258 _sq._, 262, 263, 336, 366, 372, viii. 127, 136, x. 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 144 _sq._, 148, 155, 169 _sq._, 175, 177, 179, 220, 264, 270 _sqq._, 335 _sq._, xi. 8; new fire made by, vii. 311, viii. 74, 78; sacred fire made by, viii. 314; the most primitive mode of making fire, xi. 90, 295

Friedlingen, in Swabia, the thresher of the last corn called the Sow at,