vii. 233

Voluntary human victims at religious rites, iv. 140 _sq._, 143 _sq._, 145; substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 145 _sq._, 273 _sqq._

_Voluspa_, the Sibyl’s prophecy in the, x. 102 _sq._

Vomiting, homoeopathic cure for, i. 84; as a religious rite, viii. 73, 75

Voralberg, in the Tyrol, “burning the witch” on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 116

Vorges, near Laon, Midsummer fires at, x. 187

Vorharz, the Oats-man and Oats-woman at the harvest feast in the, vii. 163

Voroneje, in Russia, patch of rye left for Elijah at harvest at, vii. 233

Vosges, peasants of the, preserve their extracted teeth against the resurrection, iii. 280; disposal of cut hair and nails in the, iii. 281; “the Dog of the harvest” in the, vii. 272; toothache nailed into trees in the, ix. 59; Midsummer fires in the, x. 188, 336; the Yule log in the, x. 254; cats burnt alive on Shrove Tuesday in the, xi. 40

——, the Upper, rule as to the shearing of sheep in, vi. 134 _n._ 3

Vosges Mountains, homoeopathic magic at sowing in the, i. 137; May custom in the, ii. 63; French peasants of the, their belief in St. George as protector of flocks, ii. 334 _n._ 2; belief as to shooting stars in the, iv. 67; Feast of All Souls in the, vi. 69; “to catch the Hare” at harvest in the, vii. 279; “catching the cat” at haymaking and harvest in the, vii. 281; dances on Twelfth Day in the, ix. 315; the Three Kings of Twelfth Day in the, ix. 330; Lenten fires in the, x. 109; witches as hares in the, x. 318; magic herbs culled on Eve of St. John in the, xi. 47

Votaries, female, of Marduk, ix. 372 _n._ 2

Votiaks (Wotyaks) of Russia, annual festivals of the dead among the, vi. 76 _sq._ _See also_ Wotyaks

Votive images among the Kusavans, i. 56 _n._ 3

—— offerings at Nemi, i. 4, 6, 12, 19, 23; to St. Leonhard, i. 7 _sq._; to the Virgin Mary, i. 77 _sq._

Vow, hair kept unshorn during a, iii. 261 _sq._, 285

Voyage, charm to make or mar a, i. 163; in boats of papyrus in the rites of Osiris, vi. 88

Voyagers, fire kept burning at home in absence of, i. 121; sympathetic taboos observed by girls in absence of, i. 126

Voyages, telepathy in, i. 126

_Vrid-eld_, need-fire in Sweden, x. 280

Vrigne-aux-Bois, in the Ardennes, mock execution of Carnival at, iv. 226

Vrtra, the dragon, conquered by Indra, in the Rigveda, iv. 106 _sq._

Vulcan, the fire-god, father of Caeculus, ii. 197, vi. 235; the husband of Maia or Majestas, vi. 232 _sq._; his Flamen, vi. 232

—— and Venus, vi. 231

Vulci, Etruscan tomb at, ii. 196 _n._

Vulsinii, in Etruria, nails annually knocked into the temple of Nortia at, ix. 67

Vulture, wing-bone of, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151; in divination, i. 158; transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299. _See also_ Vultures

——, the black, mimicked by actor or dancer among the Kobeua and Kaua Indians of Brazil, ix. 381

Vulture’s feather in a charm, viii. 167

Vultures not to be called by their proper names, iii. 408; lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 202

Vunivalu, the War King of Fiji, iii. 21

Wa, the Wild, a tribe of Upper Burma, their custom of head-hunting for the sake of the crops, vii. 241 _sqq._

Wa-teita, the, of East Africa, their fear of being photographed, iii. 98

Wabisa, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, their great god, vi. 174

Wabondei of East Africa, their sacrifices to baobab-trees, ii. 47; preserve the hair and nails of dead chiefs as charms, iii. 272; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82; their rule as to the cutting of posts for building, vi. 137; eat hearts of lions and leopards to become brave, viii. 142

Wachsmuth, C., on Easter ceremonies in the Greek Church, v. 254

Wachtl in Moravia, drama of Summer and Winter at, iv. 257

Wadai, the Sultan of, conceals his face, iii. 120; the Sultan of, must have no bodily defect, iv. 39; ceremony of the new fire in, x. 134, 140

Waddell, L. A., on the kings of Sikhim, iii. 20; on demonolatry in Sikhim and Tibet, ix. 94

Wade, Sir Thomas, formerly Professor of Chinese at Cambridge, iv. 273 _sq._

Wadowe, the, of German East Africa, woman’s share in agriculture among,