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