ce, 85-86;
origin of the fairy idea, 85-87;
may have originally been deities, 87;
in Brittany, conceived as of average mortal height, 87;
the _Margots la fee_, a variety of, 88;
a story illustrating fairy malevolence, 88;
the fairy-woman in the Lay of Graelent, 322-328

FAIRYLAND. Graelent enters, 326;
identified with the Celtic Otherworld, 327;
a place of death and remoteness, 328

FAIRY-WIFE. A folk-lore _motif_, 327

FALCON, THE. A ballad, 196-198

FARMER, CAPTAIN GEORGE. Commander of the _Quebec_;
in a Breton ballad, 238

FAYS. _See_ Fairies

FEBRUARY. The month;
personified in the story of Princess Starbright, 128-129

FELIX. Bishop of Quimper, 337

FEUILLET, OCTAVE. A French novelist;
mentioned, 206

FINETTE CENDRON ('Cinderella'). Mme d'Aulnoy's story of;
mentioned, 144

FINISTERE. One of the departments of Brittany, 13;
part of the ancient kingdom of Domnonia, 19;
mentioned, 41, 49, 180

FIONS. A name sometimes given to the fairies in Brittany, occurring
also in Scottish and Irish folk-lore, 74

FIRE-GODDESS. St Barbe probably represents the survival of a, 334

FIREPLACES in Breton churches, 380-381

FISHERMAN AND THE FAIRIES, THE. The story of, 80-83

FLAMEL, NICOLAS. A French alchemist;
mentioned, 175

FLANDERS. The country;
Gugemar in, 292;
mentioned, 145

FOLK-TALES. Of Brittany, 156-172

FONTENELLE, GUY EDER DE. A Breton leader, associated with the
Catholic League, 229-232

FOeRSTER, PROFESSOR WENDELIN. And the origin of Arthurian romance,
254

FORTH. A river in Scotland;
mentioned, 357

FORTH, FIRTH OF. Mentioned, 356, 359

FOSTER-BROTHER, THE. The story of, 167-172

FOUCAULT, JEAN. A Breton peasant;
a story of, 244

FOUGERES. A town in Brittany;
had a reputation as the dwelling-place of sorcerers, 242

FOUQUET, NICOLAS. A French statesman;
imprisoned in the castle of Nantes, 205

FOUR SORROWS, THE LAY OF THE, or THE LAY OF THE DOLOROUS KNIGHT. One
of the _Lais_ of Marie de France, 328-331

FRAGAN. Governor of Leon, father of St Winwaloe, 370

FRANCE.
I. The country;
manners and fashions of, spread in Brittany, 30;
the were-wolf superstition prevalent in, 291
II. The State;
intervenes in the conflict between Brittany and Normandy, 30;
Brittany annexed by, u