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Fables, Animal, 1, 4, 22, 28, 29, 57

Fairy, The wooing of a, 247

Fairy tales, 1;
belief in, 3;
world-wide range of, 4;
migration and transmission, 4;
connection of animal tales, 33;
reason and meaning, 34;
their primitiveness, 35;
similarity of, 35

Fates, 274

Fathers, The Christian, and the Physiologus, 28

Fauns, 89

Fenrir, 84

Finch, Thistle, and ruffled feathers, 156

Fire, The Devil and, 80, 86, 87

Fish, The, and his seven wings, 182;
and the ring, 271

Flea, The, and the gnat, 306

Fleas, Origin of, 219;
the devil’s horse, 220;
charms against, 221

Flies on the dead, 215;
which live only one day, 357

Flint, The, and sparks, 87

Flood, The, 90

Floria and the king of the storks, 263

Flower under pillow to test sex, 267, 282

Flute, The magic, 251

Folk-lore, Problems, 1;
haphazard comparisons, 12;
analogy with comparative philology, 14, 16;
its investigation, 14;
survivals, 9, 12, 15, 16, 36;
concentric investigation, 19;
written and oral, 20;
a product of peaceful times, 24;
Western European, 54;
of the nearer East, 55;
and the “man of science,” 55;
and education, 55;
and the heresy hunter, 56

Foot, Origin of instep, 215;
why it is arched, 217

Foreign elements in languages, 17 et seq.

Fox, The, the “clever” outwitted, 22;
fox fables in Jewish literature, 28;
the partridge and the hound, 290;
becomes monk, 313;
seven-witted, 320;
and the hedgehog, 322, 323;
and the leopard, 331;
the vixen and the tom cat, 332;
not among the creatures of the sea, 365;
beguiles the fishes about his heart, 367

France, The Goths in, 41

French Reynard cycle, 33

Frere, Mary, 28

Friars, The mendicant, 41

Frog, The, and the Lady Mary, 190;
King Log and King Stork, 304;
and the hare, 314

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