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Index.
Witches : excluded by broom, 369
Withershins : for cursing &c., Brae- mar, 85
Wives : fast after husband's death, Antilles, 398, India, 397, 401, N. A. Indians, 399-400
Wizards : angakut, Eskimo, 97-8 ; noaide, Lapps, 393 ; pawang, Ma- lays, 248
Wolf: in fable, 17; in folktales, 199; jawbone as amulet, Palestine, 70 ; skin worn by clergy, Armenia,
432-3
Wolfdietrich, saga of, 50
Women : {see also Birth customs and beliefs ; Marriage customs and beliefs ; Mother-right ; Widows ; Witches ; and Wives) ; devils sit on uncovered hair, Palestine Jews, 71 ; falling of staff unlucky, Jews, 72 ; Thiselton Dyer's Folk-lore of Women reviewed, 350-1 ; formed from rib of man, Todas, 104 ; girl does not count, Palestine, 65 ; girl not taken from cradle for 7 days. Sierra Leone, 86 ; in rites of Adonis, 289, 294 ; not sacrificed, India, 394
Woodpecker ; in fable, 17
Worm : water spirit as, 273
Wotjobaluk tribe : widow, duties to- wards, 109
Wounds, cures for, Cornwall, 254
Wrekin, see St Hawthorne's well
Wren : hunted, St Stephen's Day, Roscommon, 438-9
Wright, A. R. : exhibits by, 249-50, 362-3 ; Secret Societies and Fetish- ism in Sierra Leone, 423-7 (plates)
Wurdh : well under Yggdrasill, 269
Yantruwunta tribe : marriage customs,
183-4, 315
Yao : Werner's The Natives of British Central Africa reviewed, 243-5 5 string game, 327
Yassi society, Mendiland, 362, 425 (plate)
Yew-tree : the tree of Ross, 34
Yggdrasill-tree : lime-tree as, Nier- stein, 268 ; well &c. under, 268
York : holy well, Minster, 266
Yorkshire : {see also Eshton ; North- allerton ; Osmotherley ; Ripon ; Whitby ; and York) ; north, trade song, 359
Yoruba : baptismal rite, 263 ; pro- verb, 444 ; sacred tree, 263
Young Akitt, ballad of, 90
Yucatan : ancient, baptismal rite in, 262
Yuin tribe : All Father belief, 468
Vvain, of Chretien de Troyes, 35-9,
45-6, 49-51 Ywain and Gawain, 38-9, 50-1
Zealand : folktale, 192 Zenodore of Alexandria, 126 Zeus : Attis as Phrygian Zeus, 222 ; Melkart identified with, 127; olive- tree of Olympia, 26
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