ix. 261

Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, the Straw-bear at, viii. 328 _sq._

Whooping-cough cured by crawling under a bramble, xi. 180; Bulgarian cure for, by crawling under the root of a willow, xi. 181; child passed under an ass as a cure for, xi. 192

Whydah, on the Slave Coast, human sacrifices by drowning at, ii. 158; expiation for the slaughter of a sacred python at, iii. 222; the doctrine of reincarnation at, iv. 188; serpents fed with milk at, v. 86 _n._ 1; snakes sacred at, viii. 287

—— (Fida), in Guinea, king of, rule as to his drinking, iii. 129; his worship of serpents, v. 67; the hoeing and sowing of his fields, ix. 234

Wicked after death, fate of the, in Egyptian religion, vi. 14

Wicked Sower, driving away the, on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 107, 118

Wicken (rowan) tree, a protection against witchcraft, x. 326, 327 _n._ 1 _See also_ Rowan

Wicker giants at popular festivals in Europe, xi. 33 _sqq._; burnt in summer bonfires, xi. 38

Widow, claim to kingdom through marriage with the late king’s, ii. 281 _sqq._; iv. 193; re-marriage of, in Salic law, ii. 285 _sq._

——, bald-headed, in cure, ix. 38

Widow-burning in Greece, v. 177 _n._ 3

Widowed Flamen, the, vi. 227 _sqq._

Widows painted white, iii. 178 _n._ 1; wear skull-caps of clay, iii. 182 _n._ 2; cleansing of, ix. 35 _sq._; drag plough round village in time of epidemic, ix. 172

—— and widowers, mourning customs observed by, iii. 142 _sq._, 144 _sq._; not allowed to eat fresh salmon, viii. 253 _sq._

Wied, Prince of, on the objection of Indians to have their portraits taken, iii. 96 _sq._

Wiedemann, Professor Alfred, on the confusion of religion and magic in ancient Egypt, i. 230 _sq._; on Wen-Ammon, v. 76 _n._ 1; on the Egyptian name of Isis, vi. 50 _n._ 4, viii. 35 _n._ 4

Wiedingharde, in Schleswig, custom at threshing at, vii. 230

Wieland’s House, name given to certain labyrinths used for children’s games in Northern Europe, iv. 77

Wiesensteig, in Swabia, witch as horse at, x. 319

Wiesent, the valley of the, in Bavaria, the last sheaf called Goat in, vii. 282 _sq._

Wife, the Old, name given to the last corn cut, vii. 140 _sqq._

Wife’s infidelity thought to injure her absent husband, i. 123, 124 _sq._, 128. _See also_ Wives

—— mother, the savage’s dread of his, iii. _83_ _sqq._; her name not to be pronounced by her son-in-law, iii. 337, 338, 343

—— name not to be pronounced by her husband, iii. 337, 338, 339

Wiglet, king of Denmark, killed his predecessor and married the widow, ii. 281, 283

Wigtownshire, water thrown on last wagon-load of corn at harvest in, v. 237 _n._ 4

Wiimbaio tribe of South-Eastern Australia, bleeding in the, i. 91; their medicine-men, v. 75 _n._ 4

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U. von, on the Sacred Marriage of Dionysus, ii. 137 _n._ 1

Wild animals propitiated by hunters, viii. 204 _sqq._

—— beasts not called by their proper names, iii. 396 _sqq._

—— Dog clan of the Arunta, i. 107

—— fig-trees held sacred as the abodes of the spirits of the dead, viii. 113. _See also_ Fig-Tree

“—— fire,” the need-fire, x. 272, 273, 277

—— fruits and roots, ceremonies at gathering the first of the season, viii. 80 _sqq._

—— Huntsman, ix. 164, 241

—— Man, a Whitsuntide mummer, iv. 208 _sq._, 212

—— parsnip stalks burnt for ceremonial fumigation, viii. 248, 249

—— seeds and roots collected by women, vii. 124 _sqq._

Wild Wa, the, of Burma, vii. 241 _sqq._ _See_ Wa

Wilde, Lady, her description of Midsummer fires in Ireland, x. 204 _sq._

Wilhelmina, a Bohemian woman, worshipped, i. 409

Wilken, G. A., on the transmigration of human souls into animals as a base of totemism, viii. 298 _n._ 2; on the external soul, xi. 96 _n._ 1

Wilkes, Charles, on seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of Washington State, x. 43

Wilkinson, Sir J. G., on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, vi. 91 _n._ 3

Wilkinson, R. J., on different dialectic names for the same animal in the Malay language, ii. 383 _n._ 1; on the Malay’s attitude to nature, iii. 416 _n._ 4; on the Indonesian conception of the rice-soul, vii. 181 _sq._

Will-fire, or need-fire, x. 288, 297

Willcock, Rev. Dr. J., on Up-helly-a’ at Lerwick, ix. 169 _n._ 2

William III. refuses to touch for scrofula, i. 369 _sq._

William of Wykeham, his provisions for a Boy Bishop, ix. 338

Williams, Sir Monier, on the divinity of Brahmans, i. 403 _sq._; on the fear of demons in modern India, ix. 91 _sq._

Willkischken, in the district of Tilsit, man who cuts the last corn called “the killer of the Rye-woman” at, vii. 223

Willoughby, Rev. W. C., on the purification of Bechuana warriors, iii. 173

Willow used to beat people with at Easter and Christmas, ix. 269, 270; mistletoe growing on, xi. 79, 315, 316; children passed through a cleft willow-tree as a cure, xi. 170; crawling under the root of a willow as a cure, xi. 181; crawling through a hoop of willow branches as a cure, xi. 184; Orpheus and the, xi. 294

Willow-tree at festival of Green George among the gipsies, ii. 76

—— -trees, maladies transferred to, ix. 56, 58, 59; needles stuck into, as a cure for toothache, ix. 71

—— wands as disinfectants, iii. 143

—— -wood used against witches, ix. 160

Willstad, the Yule-goat at, viii. 328

Wilson, Colonel Henry, on a custom at hop-picking, vii. 226 _n._ 6

Wilson, C. T., and R. W. Felkin, on the worship of the dead kings of Uganda, vi. 173 _n._ 2

Wilson, Rev. J. Leighton, on the annual expulsion of demons in Guinea, ix. 131

Wilton, near Salisbury, May garlands at, ii. 62

Wimmer, F., on the various sorts of mistletoe known to the ancients, xi. 318

Winamwanga of East Africa, their custom as to fire kindled by lightning, ii. 256 _n._ 1, xi. 297 _sq._; alternate dynasties among the, ii. 293; their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 112; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 24 _sq._

Winchester College, Boy Bishop at, ix. 338

Winckler, H., his excavations at Boghaz-Keui, v. 125 _n._, 135 _n._

Wind, magical control of the, i. 319 _sqq._; charms to make the wind drop, i. 320; fighting and killing the spirit of the, i. 327 _sqq._; charm to produce a rainy or dry, ix. 176, 178 _sq._; bull-roarers sounded to raise a, xi. 232. _See also_ Winds

—— in the corn, sayings as to the, vii. 132, 271, 281 _sq._, 288, 292, 296, 298, 303

—— of the Cross, Finnish wizards supposed to ride on the, i. 325

Wind clan of the Omahas, their way of starting a breeze, i. 320

—— -doctor among the Caffres of South Africa, his mode of procedure, i. 321 _sq._

Windessi, in Dutch New Guinea, customs observed by head-hunters on their return, iii. 169 _sq._

Winding thread on spindle at planting sugar-cane, viii. 119

Window, skins of slain bears brought in through the, viii. 193; dead game brought in through the, viii. 256; magic flowers to be passed through the, xi. 52

Winds, charms to calm the, i. 320 _sqq._; thought to be caused by a fish, i. 320 _sq._; sold to sailors, i. 325, 326; tied up in knots, i. 326; kept in jars, iii. 5. _See also_ Wind

Wine not offered to the sun-god, i. 311; poured on head of sacrificial victim, i. 384; considered as a spirit, iii. 248; the blood of the vine, iii. 248; called milk, iii. 249 _n._ 2; tabooed in certain Egyptian, Roman, and Greek rites, iii. 249 _n._ 2; new, offered to Liber, viii. 133; the sacramental use of, viii. 167; thought to be spoiled by menstruous women, x. 96

Wine-jars, Dionysiac festival of the opening of the, ix. 352

Winenthal in Switzerland, new fire made by friction at Midsummer in the, x. 169 _sq._

Wing-bone of vulture in homoeopathic magic, i. 151; of eagle used to drink through, iii. 189

Winged deities in Cilicia and Phoenicia, v. 165 _sq._

—— disc as divine emblem, v. 132

Winnebagoes, ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268

Winnowing done by women, vii. 117, 128

Winnowing-basket, image of snake in, viii. 316; beaten at ceremony of expulsion of poverty, ix. 145; divination by, x. 236

—— -fan in rain-making, i. 294; in magic rites, iii. 55; used to scatter ashes of human victims, vi. 97, 106, vii. 260, 262; an emblem of Dionysus, vii. 5 _sqq._, 27, 29; as cradle, vii. 6 _sqq._; used at reception of “the bridal pair” at rice-harvest in Java, vii. 200

—— -fork in rain-making, i. 276

Winter, myths of gods and spirits to be told only in, iii. 385 _sq._; effigy of, burned at Zurich, iv. 260 _sq._; called Cronus, vi. 41; name given to man who cuts the last sheaf, vii. 142; name of harvest-supper, vii. 160; mummer personating, viii. 326 _n._ 1; ceremony at the end of, ix. 124; general clearance of evils at the beginning or end of, ix. 224; dances performed only in, ix. 376; ceremony of the expulsion of, ix. 404 _sq._; effigies of, destroyed, ix. 408 _sq._

——, Queen of, in the Isle of Man, iv. 258

—— and Summer, dramatic battle of, iv. 254 _sqq._

Winter festival of Dionysus, vii. 16 _sq._

—— sleep of the god, vi. 41

—— solstice, reckoned the Nativity of the Sun, v. 303, x. 246; Egyptian ceremony at the, vi. 50; Aztec festival of the, viii. 90; corn-spirit represented dramatically in processions about the, viii. 325; ceremony after the, ix. 126; Persian festival of fire at the, x. 269

“Winter’s Grandmother,” burning the, x. 116

Winterbottom, Thomas, on a secret society of Sierra Leone, xi. 260

Wintun, Indian tribe of California, fear of naming the dead among the,