xi. 234

Wives, taboos observed by, in the absence of their husbands, i. 116, 119, 120, 121, 122 _sqq._, 127 _sqq._; exchanged at the appearance of the Aurora Australis, iv. 267 _n._ 1; of dead kings sacrificed at their tombs, vi. 168; of a king taken by his successor, ix. 368 _n._ 1 _See also_ Wife

Wives, human, of gods, v. 61 _sqq._, vi. 207; in Western Asia and Egypt, v. 70 _sqq._

“—— of Marduk,” at Babylon, ii. 130

Wiwa, the, of East Africa, their custom as to fire kindled by lightning, ii. 256 _n._ 1

Wiwa chiefs reincarnated in pythons, vi. 193

Wizards in Melanesia, the variety of their functions, i. 227 _sq._; who raise winds, i. 323 _sqq._; Finnish, i. 325; capture human souls, iii. 70, 73; gather baleful herbs on the Eve of St. John, xi. 47; gather purple loosestrife at Midsummer, xi. 65; animal familiars of, xi. 196 _sq._, 201 _sq._ _See also_ Medicine-men _and_ Sorcerers

Woden, Odin, or Othin, the master of spells, iii. 305; the father of Balder, x. 101, 102, 103 _n._ 1 _See also_ Odin

Wogait, Australian tribe, their belief in conception without cohabitation,