iii. 177

Waggum, in Brunswick, the May Bride at Whitsuntide at, ii. 96

Wagogo, of German East Africa, chastity of women during absence of warriors among the, i. 131; their rain-making by means of black animals, i. 290 _sq._; chiefs as rain-makers among the, i. 343; custom observed by man-slayers among the, iii. 186 _n._ 1; their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 143; their belief in the effect of eating a totemic animal, viii. 26; eat the hearts of lions to become brave, viii. 142; eat the hearts of enemies to make them brave, viii. 149; their way of getting rid of birds that infest gardens, viii. 276; their transference of sickness, ix. 6 _sq._

Wagogo hunters, taboos observed by wives in absence of, i. 123

Wagstadt in Silesia, Judas ceremony on Wednesday before Good Friday at, x. 146 _n._ 3

Wagtail, the yellow, in magic, i. 79

Wahehe, a Bantu tribe of German East Africa, custom before marriage among the, iii. 86 _n._; the worship of the dead among the, vi. 188 _sqq._; their belief in a supreme god Nguruhe, vi. 188 _sq._; their belief that skin disease is caused by eating a totemic animal, viii. 26

Waheia, the, of German East Africa, their belief that skin disease is caused by eating a totemic animal, viii. 26

Wahoko, the, of Central Africa, their disposal of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278

Wahrstedt, in Brunswick, Whitsuntide King at, ii. 85

Wahuma, the, of the Albert Nyanza Lake, their rain-making, i. 250

Wailing of women for Adonis, v. 224

Waizganthos, an old Prussian god, prayers and offerings for the growth of the flax to, iv. 156

Wajagga, the, of German East Africa, their treatment of the corpses of childless women, i. 142; their charm for runners, i. 151; their rain-making, i. 250; mourners cut their hair among the, iii. 286; their covenant by means of spittle, iii. 290; their custom of leaping over a grandfather’s corpse, iii. 424; their way of appeasing ghosts of suicides, v. 292 _n._ 3; their human sacrifices at irrigation, vi. 38; their way of diverting locusts from the fields, viii. 276; plants planted at birth of infants among the, xi. 160

Wajagga warriors swallow shavings of rhinoceros hide and horn to make them strong, viii. 143

Wak, a sky-spirit of the Borans, children and cattle sacrificed to, iv. 181

Wakamba, the, of East Africa, sacrifice to baobab-trees, ii. 46. _See_ Akamba

_Wakan_, in the Dacotan language, mysterious, sacred, taboo, iii. 225 _n._, viii. 180 _n._ 2

Wakanda, a spirit recognized by the Omahas, iii. 187

Wakefulness, homoeopathic charms to ensure, i. 154, 156

Wakelbura, the, of Australia, their way of disabling ghosts, iii. 31 _sq._; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation among the, x. 78

Wakondyo (Wakondjo), the, of Central Africa, their way of obtaining rain by means of a stone, i. 305; their custom as to the afterbirth, xi. 162 _sq._

Walachia (or Wallachia), precautions against witches on St George’s Day in, ii. 338; crown of last ears of corn worn by girl at harvest in, v. 237

Walachians, herdsman’s festival on St. George’s Day among the, ii. 338 _sq._

_Walber_, a tree and a man disguised in corn-stalks, on May 2nd in Bavaria, ii. 75, 78

Walburgis Day, the 2nd of May in the Franken Wald mountains of Bavaria, ii. 75 _n._ 2

Waldemar I., king of Denmark, magical powers attributed to, i. 367

Wales, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167 _sq._; All Souls’ Day in, vi. 79; harvest customs in, vii. 142 _sqq._; the last sheaf called the Hag in, vii. 142 _sqq._; Snake Stones in, x. 15 _sq._; Beltane fires and cakes in, x. 155 _sq._; Beltane fire kindled by the friction of oak-wood in, x. 155, xi. 91; Midsummer fires in, x. 200 _sq._; divination at Hallowe’en in, x. 229, 240 _sq._; Hallowe’en fires in, x. 239 _sq._; the Yule log in, x. 258; burnt sacrifices to stop cattle-disease in, x. 301; witches as hares in, x. 315 _n._ 1; belief as to witches in, x. 321 _n._ 2; bewitched things burnt in, x. 322; divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53; St. John’s wort used to drive away fiends in, xi. 55; mistletoe to be shot or knocked down with stones in, xi. 82; mistletoe gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 86, 293; mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive in, xi. 86; mistletoe used to dream on at Midsummer in, xi. 293. _See also_ Welsh

Walhalla, mistletoe growing east of, x. 101. _See also_ Valhalla

Walking over fire as a rite, xi. 3 _sqq._

Wall, Roman ceremony of knocking nails into a, ix. 65 _sqq._ _See also_ Walls

Wallace, A. R., on women’s work among the tribes of the Uaupes River, vii. 121 _sq._

Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie, on the Russian sect of the Christs, i. 407 _sq._

Wallachia. _See_ Walachia

Wallis Island, tabooed persons not allowed to handle food in, iii. 140

Walls of houses beaten to expel ghosts, iii. 170; maladies and devils nailed into, ix. 62 _sqq._; fortified, of the ancient Gauls, x. 267 _sq._

Walnut, branches of, passed across Midsummer fires and fastened on cattle-sheds, x. 191

Walo, on the Senegal, the king of, not to be seen eating, iii. 118

Walos of Senegambia, their royal family thought to possess the power of healing by touch, i. 370 _sq._; their belief as to sort of mistletoe, xi. 79 _sq._

Walpi, Pueblo Indian village, use of bull-roarers at, xi. 231

Walpurgis Day, the 1st of May, charred sticks of Judas fire planted in the fields on, x. 143

—— Night (the Eve of May Day), dances on, to make flax grow tall, i. 138, 139 _n._; precautions against witches on, ii. 52, 54, 55, xi. 20 _n._; milk and butter stolen by witches on, ii. 127; witches abroad on, ix. 158 _sqq._, x. 159 _sq._; annual expulsion of witches on, ix. 159 _sqq._; dances for the crops on, ix. 238; a witching time, x. 295; witches active on, xi. 73, 74

Walrus, taboos concerning, among the Esquimaux, iii. 208 _sq._

Walton, Izaak, on Lapland witches, i. 326 _n._ 2

Wamara, a worshipful dead king in Kiziba, vi. 174

Wambuba, the, of Central Africa, carry fire on the march, ii. 255

Wambugwe of East Africa, their rain-charm by means of black animals, i. 290; sorcerers as chiefs among the, i. 342; their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65

Wamegi, the, of German East Africa, their human sacrifices at harvest and sowing, vii. 240

Wand, magic, made from a tree growing on a grave, ii. 33

Wandorobbo, of East Africa, their continence at brewing poison, iii. 200 _sq._

_Wangala_, harvest-festival of the Garos, viii. 337 _sq._

Wangen in Baden, bonfire and burning discs on the first Sunday in Lent at,