ii. 74, 80, 81, 87

Whirlwind, attacking the, i. 329 _sqq._

Whirlwinds thought to be demons or spirits, i. 331 _n._ 2

Whit-Monday, custom observed by Russian girls on, ii. 80; the Leaf King at Hildesheim on, ii. 85; the King in Bohemia on, ii. 85; the king’s game on, ii. 89, 103; custom of rolling down a slope on, ii. 103; pretence of beheading leaf-clad man on, iv. 207 _sq._; pretence of beheading the king on, iv. 209 _sqq._ _See also_ Whitsuntide

Whitby, All Souls’ Day at, vi. 79; the Yule log at, x. 256

White, Rev. G. E., on dervishes of Asia Minor, v. 170; on passing through a ring of red-hot iron, xi. 186; on passing sheep through a rifted rock, xi. 189 _sq._

White, Miss Rachel Evelyn (Mrs. Wedd), on the position of women in ancient Egypt, vi. 214 _n._ 1, 216 _n._ 1

White, faces and bodies of man-slayers painted, iii. 175, 186 _n._ 1; widows painted, iii. 178 _n._ 1; lion-killer painted, iii. 220; the colour of Upper Egypt, vi. 21 _n._ 1; as a colour to repel demons, ix. 115

—— and black in relation to human scapegoats, ix. 220; figs worn by human scapegoats, ix. 253, 257, 272

White birds, souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 162; ten, external soul in, xi. 142

—— bull, soul of a dead king incarnate in a, vi. 164

—— bulls sacrificed to Jupiter, ii. 188 _sq._; sacrificed by Druids at cutting the mistletoe, ii. 189, xi. 77

—— chalk, bodies of newly initiated lads coated with, xi. 241

—— clay, Caffre boys at circumcision smeared with, iii. 156; people smeared with, at festival, viii. 75; bodies of novices at initiation smeared with, xi. 255 _n._ 1, 257

—— cloth, fern-seed caught in a, x. 65, xi. 291; springwort caught in a, x. 70; mistletoe caught in a, xi. 77, 293; used to catch the Midsummer bloom of the oak, xi. 292, 293

—— cloths in homoeopathic magic, i. 137

—— cock buried at boundary, iii. 109; disease transferred to, ix. 187; as scapegoat, ix. 210 _n._ 4; burnt in Midsummer bonfire, xi. 40

White crosses made by the King of the Bean, ix. 314

—— Crown of Upper Egypt, vi. 20, 21 _n._ 1; worn by Osiris, vi. 87

—— dog, Iroquois sacrifice of a, viii. 258 _n._ 2, ix. 127, 209

—— god and black god among the Slavs, ix. 92

—— herb, external souls of two brothers in a, xi. 143

—— horse, effigy of, carried through Midsummer fire, x. 203

—— horses sacrificed to Diomede, i. 27; used to draw triumphal car of Camillus, ii. 174 _n._ 2; sacred among the Aryans, ii. 174 _n._ 2

—— Maize, Goddess of the, in Mexico, lepers sacrificed to her, vii. 261

—— mice spared by Bohemian peasants, viii. 279, 283; under the altar of Apollo, viii. 283

—— Nile, the Dinkas of the, ix. 193

—— ox, sacrament of, among the Abchases, viii. 313 _n._ 1

—— poplar, the, at Olympia, ii. 220, xi. 90 _n._ 1, 91 _n._ 7

—— ram, consecration of a, among the Kalmucks, viii. 313 _sq._

—— and red wool in ceremony of the expulsion of evils, ix. 208

—— roses dyed red by the blood of Aphrodite, v. 226

—— sails that turned black, ix. 202

—— snake eaten to acquire supernatural knowledge, viii. 146

—— Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent and the first Sunday after Easter, x. 11 _n._ 1

—— thorn, a charm against witches, ii. 53, 191

—— victims sacrificed for sunshine, i. 291, 292, 314

Whiteborough, tumulus near Launceston, Midsummer fires on, ii. 141, x. 199

Whitekirk, St. Mary’s well at, ii. 161

Whitethorn a protection against witches, ii. 53, 191

Whiteway, R. S., on custom of regicide in Bengal and Sumatra, iv. 51 _n._ 2

Whitsun-bride in Denmark, ii. 91 _sq._

Whitsunday, dragon carried in procession at Tarascon on, ii. 170 _n._ 1

Whitsuntide, rain-charms at, ii. 47; races, ii. 69, 84; contests for the kingship at, ii. 84, 89; rolling down a slope at, ii. 103; cattle first driven out to pasture at, ii. 127 _n._ 2, iv. 207 _n._ 1; drama of Summer and Winter at, iv. 257; ceremonies concerned with vegetation at, ix. 359

Whitsuntide Basket in Frickthal, ii. 83

—— Bride, the, ii. 89, 91 _sq._, 96

—— Bridegroom, the, ii. 91

—— customs in Brunswick, ii. 56 _n._ 3, 85, 96; in Holland, ii. 80, 104; in Russia, ii. 64, 79 _sq._, 93

—— crown, the, ii. 64, 89 _sq._, 91

—— Flower, ii. 80

—— King, ii. 84 _sqq._, 89, 90, iv. 209 _sqq._ _See also_ Whit-Monday

—— -lout, the, ii. 81

—— Man, the Little, ii. 81

—— Mummers, iv. 206 _sqq._

—— Queen, ii. 87, 89 _sq._, iv. 210

Whittled sticks in religious rites, viii. 185, 186 _n._, 192, 196, 278,