Index.
409
romances, suggested Welsh origin, 271 ; Arthur's stone in Gower, 77 birth customs and beliefs, 189 death and funeral customs, 189 giants of, 237 ; Grail legend, Welsh versions of, 350 ; streams of tradition rising in, 356 ; Welsh folk-literature, 41, 42, 46 ; and ballads, 49
Walking of corpses, Danish way of preventing, 216, 217
Wallaby, red, in Australian folklore,
Walling-up of nuns and others, pro- bable origin of stories of , 367
Warrambool, Australian name for Milky Way, 301
Washerwoman, the, legend of, 91
Water ; in Black Lad festivities, 381, 382 ; to cure enchantment, 234 ; to cure Evil Eye, 87, 90 ; from under a bridge as a horse cure, 378 ; in which a corpse has been washed to prevent its walking, 217 ; Ganges water in idol ceremonies, 277 ; in marriage customs in India, 140 ; in rain-procuring ceremonies, India, 278, 279 ; in isolation of sacred fire, Scotland, 28 1 ; in con- nection with serpents, 179
Wayland, the smith, 43, 44
Weapons, Greek, 132
Weather Lore ; a Collection of Pro- verbs, Sayings, aiid Ru'es con- cerning the Weather, by Richard Inwards, reviewed, 344
Weaver, the, Kashmir tale, 122
Weaving, a mystic art, 124 ; of Roman wedding dress, 127
Webb, the, of Penelope, a shroud, 100, 122 ; a wedding dress, 122 ; parallels, 121, 257
Wedding dresses, of various races, 124, 128
Weddings; Indian, see India; riddles at Russian, 259
Wells as dwellings of rain-gods, 279 ; pins and metal in, 368 ; sacred, 16 ; in medicinal folklore, 377
Werewolves {see Lycaon), Danish folklore, 215
Westphalia, folklore of, 344, 345
Wheel ceremony, by E. Peacock,
293 Whipping out ghosts, at Launceston, 371 VOL. IX. 2 E
White, usual colour for wedding dresses and shrouds, 124
Whooping cough, cure for, 334
Widows, status of, in Greece, 106, 112, 113 ; in India, 104, 105 ; in Ireland, 106 ; in Scotland, 104, 105, 106
Wife-purchase in India, 105 ; in Homeric days, 106, ill
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, cited, 103
Wind ; in relation to Australian gods, 305 ; and the Devil, 273, 274, 364 ; riddle on, 261
Wind-god, Odin as, 275
Wiraijuri tribe, Australia, belief as to Daramulun, 297 ; exogamy amongst, 298
Witch -bar, the, in the shrew ash at Richmond, 330, 334. 335
Witchcraft in Denmark, 213-214 ; in Fife, 285 ; in Ireland, 255
Witches {see also Kitty-witches), in hyena form, 306
Wizards, Australian, 297, 306, 307 ; medical, in Denmark, 196
Wodan {see also Odin), survival of cult in Lines. , 186; supersession of, by saints in Germany, 345
Woiworung tribe, Australia, its totems, 305
Wolfram, cited on tlie Grail, 355
Wolgal tribe, Australia, divinity of, 295, 296
Women ; fate of captive, 104 ; de- barred from knowledge of the gods, Australia, 295, 309 ; Druze women, 7 ; Greek, status of, 106, 107 ; in time of Euripides and earlier, 113 ; Heads to be covered whilst eating, 344 : heroines of the Nekuia, 113 ; Indian, at weddings, 136, et seqq ; dress of, 152 ; making of, Australian belief, 307 ; racial ad- mixture, in relation to, and folk- lore diffusion, 34 ; savage taboos of, and consequences, 252, 253, 297, 327 ; position of, among the Kurnai tribe, Australia, 318
Wooing, the, of Penelope, by W. Crooke, 97
Worship of the dead, 64 ; at grave- sides, 277 ; well-gods, 279
Wortaberglaiibe7i, Uebcr, von Ferd, Freiherr von Andrian, &c., re- viewed, 77
Wound in leg recognised, version of recognition test, 131
