gathered at the solstices, Midsummer Eve and Christmas, [290] sq.;
procured by shooting at the sun on Midsummer Day, [291];
blooms at Easter, [292] n. 2
Feronia, Italian goddess, ii. [14]
Ferrara, synod of, denounces practice of gathering fern-seed, ii. [66] n.
Fertility of women, magical ceremony to ensure, i. 23 sq., 31;
of fields, processions with lighted torches to ensure the, 233 sq.;
of the land supposed to depend on the number of human beings sacrificed, ii. [32], [33], [42] sq.
Fertilization of mango trees, ceremony for the, i. 10
Fertilizing fields with ashes of Midsummer fires, i. 170