Page:The Folk-Lore Journal Volume 2 1884.djvu/417

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INDEX.
409

Wens, cause of, 97

Wheatley (Henry B.): Folk-lore terminology, 346-347

Whistling, Turcoman notice of, 44

Whitsunday games, 287

Whooping-cough, charm for, 33

Wife-beaters, Warwickshire custom respecting, 187

Willow, in Drayton's poems, 142; in plant-lore, 119

Wind, raising the, 260

Winifred (St.), well of, 149-150

Witchcraft, 157-158, 191; from Drayton's works, 357-360; in Dorsetshire, 349; France, 255; Irish, 34; Lancashire, 26; Ross-shire, 288; Scotland, 121, 219

Witches turn into hares, 258

Wolf used in folk-medicine, 98

Wolves, were-, 362-365

Word charm, 158; formulæ in folk-medicine, 101, 102, 103, 106

Wort-cunning in Drayton, 145

Wratislaw (Rev. H. H.): Prince Unexpected, 9-18

Wren, folk-lore of, 267-268; omens from, 66, 67


Yarrow in Drayton's plant-lore, 146

Yorkshire, couvade in, 121; name for wakes, 25

Youngest, success of, in folk-tale (Malagasy), 129-131