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Miles, Clement A.

"Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan"

H. F., 6, 236, 313-4
Festivals, origin and purpose of, 17-8;
relation of pagan and Christian, 19-27, 169-74
Fire, not given out at Christmas or New Year, 170-1, 257-8;
bonfires, 182, 198-9, 204-5, 327, 346-50;
new fire lit, 198;
Christmas log and ancestor-worship, 251-4;
the Yule log and candle in western Europe, 254-60;
Candlemas fires and lights, 352-4
"First-foots," 208, 252, 323-6
Fish eaten on Christmas Eve, 287
Flagellants, 146
Flamma, Galvano, 147-8
Fletcher, Giles, 82-3
Florence, Nativity plays at, 147;
Befana at, 343
Fools, Feast of, 180, 302-6
Football, 349
Fowler, Dr. W. Warde, 167
France, Christmas poetry in, 55-65;
Midnight Mass in, 96-8;
Christmas drama in, 124-7, 138-43;
All Souls' Eve in, 191-2;
Christmas Eve superstitions in, 234-5;
Christmas log in, 254-6;
Christmas-tree in, 267;
Harvest May in, 271;
presents brought by _le petit Jesus_, 278;
Christmas cakes in, 287-8;
Feast of Fools in, 302-6;
Boy Bishop in, 308;
Innocents' Day in, 316;
New Year in, 322-3;
_aguillanneuf_ in, 329-30;
Epiphany in, 339-42, 344, 349-50;
Candlemas candles in, 353
Francis, St.


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