Mythology

Feng-hwang: Chin. Myth. A pheasant-like bird of rich plumage and graceful form and
movement, fabled to appear in the land on the accession of a sage to the throne, or
when right principles are about to prevail. (MAYER, Chin. Read. Man., P. 43). cf.
Phoenix.
Feng-shui: A system of spirit influence for good and evil, believed by the Chinese to
attend the natural features of landscape.
Fenian: In Gaelic legend a band of heroes, forming a kind of free soldiery and chivalric
order. Their leader was Finn.
Fenodyres: The Manx name for a brownie.
Fenrir: Norse Myth. A wolf, spawn of Loki, who fights with Tyr, and is afterwards cast
into Niflheim by the Aesir. He killed Odin in a fight.
Fergus: Gaelic Legend. Son of Finn. He was a bard and an important member of the
Fenians.
Feronia: An ancient Italian Goddess, a protectress of freedmen and markets.
Fetch: A double (q.v.). In Ireland, a fetch is the supernatural facsimile of some individual,
which comes to ensure to its original a happy longevity, or immediate dissolution; if
seen in the morning, the one event is predicted; if in the evening, the other. –J. BANIM:
Tales of O Haya Family, The Fetch. (1825).
The Earl of Cromwell met the fetch of his friend William Rufus. –TYLOR: Primitive
Culture.
Fetish: A material object supposed by the savage tribes to possess magical powers,
capable of bringing to issue the designs of the owner, or to preserve him from injury.
Originally this name was applied to the rude wooden idols of the West Africans. but is
now applied to similar objects all the world over. (cf. R. MARAN, Batouala, Lond., 1922,
P 79).
Feu Follet: The French name for a Jack-o -Lantern.
Fever: To cure fever, spill a can of water suddenly on the patient (SCHIFFER, Urquell,
V. 223), or let him eat something he does not like. (Jew. Enc., Vol. V., P. 223).
In Burma fever is caused by a demon seizing people trespassing in his domain. He
shakes them with ague till he is exorcised. Apoplectic fits are similarly caused by other
demons. (TYLOR, P.C. VOI. 11, P. 124). Vide Epilepsy, Bacon, Cockchafer, Spider,
Nail, Willow, Eshshata, Agate, Magpie.
Fianna Eirinn: Irish for Fenian.

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