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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]