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