Index.
491
280 : old, carry vessel cup, York- shire, 95 ; seeini^ in casting frith generally unlucky, Hebrides, 48 ; totems originally descended in female line, 351 ; whistling by, un- lucky, Hebrides, 32
Wonkamala tribe, 404
Wonkanguru tribe, 404 ; legends, 408, 411, 413-4
Wood, folklore of, 96
Wood sage : as remedy, Kennet Valley, 420
Wooing customs and beliefs, see Courting customs and beliefs
Wool : collected by bride, Hebrides,
33
Worana, fabled creature. Lake Eyre,
412 Worcester : St. Edgwin, 214 Worcestershire, see Worcester Wormwood : drunk during measles,
Transvaal, 71 Wounds : charm against festering, St. Briavel's, 173 ; cures for, Boers, 71, Kennet Valley, 420: not touched with finger or thumb, Hebrides, 31 Wrekin : first money spat on, 430 ; man or dark person lucky to begin, 430 Wren : all eggs hatched, Hebrides, 35 ; lucky about house, Hebrides, 35 ; always ooze in nest, Hebrides, 35 ; never pays tithes, Hebrides, 35 ; saying about, Hebrides, 35 Wurtemberg, see Heidenheim VVyke : written charms, 2, 92-4, {^ plate)
Yankton tril^e : group names, 388
Yarrow: in casting frith, Hebrides, 49
Yaurorka tribe, 405 : folktale, 409- 1 1
Yeast set on Good Friday shows cross, Kennet Valley, 423
Yellow : on divining rod, Malays, 145 ; horse omen of Mackenzie, Hebrides, 49 ; names for less defi- nite than for red, Torres Straits, 102
Yew : branches in house against fire, Hebrides, 32, against" lightning, Spain, 32 ; named rakhal, Kula (Himalayas). 20I ; sprig offered to god Bastar. Kula (Himalayas), 201: stick keeps witch from house, St. Briavel's, 175 ; Yew Wood, by N. W. Thomas, 96
Yonne, see Avalon
York : Ss. Paulinus, Chad, and Wil- frid, 215 ; St. William, 217
Yorke's Peninsula : belief in future life, 18
Yorkshire : {see also Beverley ; Brad- ford ; Egton Bridge ; Guisborough : Hull ; Leeds ; Rievaux ; Ripon ; Sheffield ; Sherburn ; Walkley ; Whitby : Wyke ; aiid ■ York) ; Dales, the vessel cup -^in the, 95 ; harvest custom, 251 ; heaving' custom, Easter, 248, harvest, 251 _; marriage on probation, 446
Yule, see Christmas
Zapotecs : ' tona ' chosen at birth,
360 Zulus, sec Amazulu
ERRATA.
See also list on page vii.
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