x. 117

Wanigela River, in New Guinea, purification of manslayers among tribes on the, iii. 167 _sq._; preparations for fishing turtle and dugong among the tribes of the, iii. 192

Waniki, the, of East Africa, their belief in the spirits of trees, ii. 12; their reverence for coco-nut palms, ii. 16; their mode of killing their cattle, iii. 247

Waning of the moon, theories to account for the, vi. 130; time for felling timber, vi. 135 _sqq._

Wannefeld, in the Altmark, the last stalks at reaping left for the He-goat at, vii. 287

Wanyamwesi, the, of Central Africa, iii. 109; their belief in the association of twins with water, i. 268 _sq._; ceremony observed by them on return from a journey, iii. 112; their custom as to personal names, iii. 330; woman’s share in agriculture among the, vii. 118; their propitiation of slain elephants, viii. 227; their practice of adding to heaps of sticks or stones, ix. 11 _n._ 1; their belief as to wounded crocodiles, xi. 210 _n._ 1

Wanyoro (Banyoro), the, of Central Africa, their disposal of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278. _See_ Banyoro

Wanzleben, near Magdeburg, man called the Wolf at threshing at, vii. 274 _sq._

War, use of twins in, i. 49 _n._ 3; telepathy in, i. 126 _sqq._; continence in, iii. 157, 158 _n._ 1, 161, 163, 164, 165; rules of ceremonial purity observed in, iii. 157 _sqq._; hair kept unshorn in, iii. 261; sacrifice of a blind bull before going to, vi. 250 _sq._

“——, the sleep of,” among the Black foot Indians, ii. 147

War chief, or war king, iii. 20, 21, 24

—— -dance of villagers round victor, iii. 169; of manslayers on their return, iii. 170, 178; of old men round manslayer, iii. 182; of king before the ghosts of his ancestors, vi. 192; at festival of new corn among the Natchez Indians, viii. 79

—— -god, dog sacrificed to, i. 173

Ward, Professor H. Marshall, on the respective hardness of ivy and laurel,