of fields with ashes of Midsummer fires, x. 170.
See also [Conception], [Impregnation]
Fertilization, artificial, of the date palm, ii. 24 sq., ix. 272 sq.;
of fig-trees, ii. 314 sq., vi. 98, ix. 257, 258, 259, 272 sq.
Fertilizing influence of the corn-spirit, vii. 168
—— power ascribed to the effigy of Death, iv. 250 sq.
—— virtue attributed to trees, ii. 49 sqq., 316 sqq.;
attributed to sticks which have separated pairing dogs, ix. 264
Fertility, Artemis the embodiment of, i. 35;
Asiatic goddesses of, i. 37;