employed as a barrier against ghosts, xi. 17 sqq.;
used to burn or ban witches, xi. 19 sq.;
extinguished by mistletoe, xi. 78, 84 sq., 293;
of oak-wood used to detect a murderer, xi. 92 n. 4;
life of man bound up with a, xi. 157;
conceived by savages as a property stored like sap in trees, xi. 295;
primitive ideas as to the origin of, xi. 295 sq.
See also [Bonfires], [Extinction], [Fires], [Need-fire], and [New Fire]
Fire, Feast of, at winter solstice, among the Indians of Arizona, iv. 215
Fire, the god of, among the Huichol Indians, i. 124, viii. 93