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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]