kindled to prevent fever, 297;
probable antiquity of the, 297 sq.;
kindled by elm-wood, 299;
the parent of the periodic fire-festivals, 299, 343;
used by Slavonic peoples to combat vampyres, 344;
sometimes kindled by the friction of fir, plane, birch, lime, poplar, cornel-wood, ii. [91] n. 1
Need-fire, John Ramsay's account of, i. 147 sq.;
Lindenbrog on, 335 n. 1
Negro children pale at birth, ii. [251] n. 1, [259] n. 2
Neil, R. A., on Gaelic name for mistletoe, ii. [82] n. 5