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Wild cat, see Cat
Wild ox. see Buffalo
Willibald, St., see St. Willibald
Wiltshire, see Salisbury Plain
Wind : fetishes brought by, Congo, 377-80
Windle, B. C. A., review by — Payne's English Medicine in the Anglo-Saxon Times, 362-5
Wine : origin of, Bceotia, 25
Winning the Chum (Ulster), by H. W. Lett, 185-6
Wise women : Wye valley, 167
Wishing-wells : Trelleck, 165-6
Witan, functions of, 124-5
Witchcraft: amongst Huculs, 51, 54; amulets and charms against, 137, Cambridgeshire, 189-90, Morocco, 33 ; leopard connected with, Loango, 391-3 ; shadow can be stolen, Bavili, 372-3 ; Wye valley, 170-4
Witches : animal shape of, Wye valley, 171; Cambridgeshire, 1 87 -90 ; janaras, Naples, 143 ; Pytho, Greeks, 21 ; ride on hurdles, Cam- bridgeshire, 189
Withershins : Ceri so carried, Gubbio,
253 Wives : [see also Birth customs and beliefs ; Marriage customs and beliefs ; and Mothers) ; S. Nigeria,
438-9
Wizards : Bavili, 372-3, 382, 392-3 ; Monmouthshire, 67, 167, 175 ; Shortland islands. 1 15
Wolfgang, St., see St. Wolfgang
Women : [see also Marriage customs and beliefs; Mothers; Widows; Wise women ; Witches ; and Wives) ; genii of called Junos, Romans, 296 ; unmarried girl lights New Year fire, Morocco, 40
Wood fiends : hair offered to, Mala- bar and New Zealand, 467
Woodpecker ; bird of Zeus, Jupiter, or Mars, 321
Worgaia tribe (Aus. ): marriage cus- toms, 472
Worm : reincarnation in, Madagascar, 230
Wormwood : in coffin, Monmouth- shire, 66
Worochta, 50
Wotjoballuk tribe (Aus.), 105, 222
Wounds, cures for, see Medical folk- lore
Wren : hunting of, 259 ; mouse's brother, Faroes, 488
Wright, A. R., exhibits by, 369
Wurunjerri tribe (Aus.) : origin of social reform, 103
Wye river, saying, 67
Wye valley, folklore of, 2, 162-179, 352
Xibanga, province of, 398 Xienji : sacred animals, 397 Xilendi Nkombi : sacred animal, 397 Xina or forbidden thing, Loango, 405
Yam : offered after childbirth, S.
Nigeria, 439 Yellow : Easter eggs, Huculs, 53-4 Yellow animals, see Horse Yggdrasill-tree : oak as, 280-1 Yorkshire : {see also Whitby) ; folk- songs, 127 Yule, see Christmas
ZadkieFs Almanack, used in charming, St. Briavel's, 170
Zakynthos : Cyclops, 22
Zambesi district, see Nalolo
Zante, see Zakynthos
Zemmur tribe, Morocco : in mid- summer fires, 31
Zeus : {see also Jupiter) ; Ares derived from, 320 ; Argive Zeus, 275 ; Janus identified with, 277 ; Jupiter compared with, 274 ; oak god, Dodona, 323 ; Roman emperors as, 311, 313-4 ; temple, Athens, 314; trophy to, Greeks, 320; Zeus- in-the-rain-water, Greeks, 266
Zwei Jahre unter den R'annibaleti der Salomo-Inseln, by C. Ribbe, re- viewed, 1 13-6
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