Index.
537
witches, Indian folktale, 424 ; in sunstroke charm, 167 ; turned into wine, 230; in unbinding spells, 159; for washing clothes not to come to the boil a second time, 271 ; wonderfully distilled in Egypt. 230 Water-finder, methods and success of,
479
Water-horses, belief in, Co. Ros- common, 123
Water-kelpies, Scandinavian folklore, 460
Water superstitions, non- Aryan, 142
Waters, Indian god of, 423
of healing, 231
Watts, G. J., Burial Customs, 253
Wax-melting in magic, 152
Weather folklore, {see Rain and Wind), foreshadowed by that on August 4 to 15, Cos, 179 ; storm- making for punishing thief, 227, by moving skull, loi ; wind-storm raising, 215
gods, Ilmarinen, 106 ; Viiina-
mciinen, 329
Weaving, of the Sun - goddess, Japanese myth, 305
Wednesday, All Saint's Day unlucky if falling on, 267 ; old German birth augury for, 116
Well, maidens and ogre at bottom of, Lesbos, 496
Wells ; St. Austin's, Cerne, 479 ; St. Brigid's, 121 ; Ilel well, Cerne, 479 ; seeing faces in, on Easter morning, 480 ; water of, bubbling on approach of Heroine, Indian tales, 423
Wells cathedral, Kill-Canon Corner at, 358
Werewolves, Scandinavian folklore, 460
Werner, Miss A., The Tar-Baby Story, 282 ; review by, Junod's Chants et Contes des Baronga, 221
West African Studies, by Mary H. Kingsley, reviewed by E. S. Hart- land, 447
West side of road used at night, Hebrides, 269
Westj)halia, switching young heifers on May Day, iSo
Wheel-snakes, Scandinavian folklore, 460
Whip-cracking over cattle to drive
away witches, Whitsuntide, Ger- many, 180
Whistling the speech of devils, 172 ; unlucky underground, ib., wind- raising by, 312-3
White bull as part of freeman's dues, 356 ; in Heraldry, 357 ; in form of tenure, 356
White Cattle in British Folktales and Customs, by R. Hedger Wal- lace, 352
■ in Druid ceremonial 353
clothes in Girgenti procession,
253, of May Ladies, 443
lamb lucky to see first in the
season, 121
rabbit ill-omened, 333
Whitsuntide whip-cracking to scare
away witches, Germany, 180 Widows, ceremonies performed by,
Indian folktales, 439, sacrificed in
Egypt, 229 Wife, calumniated, a special feature in
Indian folktales, 423 ; sacrificed to ,
ensure foundations of bridge, 182 ;
wooden, 209-10 Wild cat, totem, 236 Willy Howe barrow, empty, 93 Wiltshire, results of excavations in,
87
Wind in box, tb. ; and the Devil at Lincoln 333-4, wind god of the La[)ps, 329 ; wintl and St. Laurence, legend of, 334 ; se- lecting of, in the Hervey Islands, 250
Wind and weather- Holes, by M. Peacock, 249
Winds, knots of, 106 ; round cathe- drals, 358, whistling to raise, 312-3
Wine, water turned into, 230
Winged animals, Indian folklore,
Winnanulbooroo, All-Hearing spirit,
Australia, 491 Winter, driving out of, at Heidol-
Ijcrg, 178 Wintu, the, Olelbis, 18, myths of,
341. 342 Wiraijuri myths, 17 Wiradthur tribe, alleged orgies of,
19 Wirrccnun, Australian wizard, 13, 36 Wise men and women, good and bad,
in Dorsetshire, 480, 481, 4S6-7 ; in
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