ii. 74, 80, 81, 87

“Twin,” name applied by the Baganda to the navel-string, i. 195, 196

Twins, i. 145; in war, 49 _n._ 3; taboos laid on parents of, 262, 263 _sq._; supposed to possess magical powers, especially over the weather and rain, 262-269; supposed to be salmon, 263; thought to be related to grizzly-bears, 264 _sq._; thought to be related to apes, 265; thought to be the sons of lightning, 266; called the children of the sky, 267, 268; water poured on graves of twins as a rain-charm, 268; customs of the Baganda in regard to, ii. 102 _sq._

Two-headed bust at Nemi, portrait of the King of the Wood, i. 41 _sq._

Tydeus, ii. 278

Tylor, E. B., i. 53 _n._ 1, ii. 208, 244 _n._ 1, 374 _n._ 2; on fertilisation of date-palm, 25 _n._

Tyndarids (Castor and Pollux), i. 49

Uganda, Queen Dowager and Queen Sister in, ii. 275 _sq._

Ulysses and Aeolus, i. 326; and Penelope, ii. 300

Umbrians, ordeal of battle among the, ii. 321

Uncle, maternal, preferred to father, mark of mother-kin, ii. 285

Upsala, sacred grove at, ii. 9; temple of Frey at, 144; great temple and festival at, 364 _sq._

Urns, funereal, in shape of huts, ii. 201 _sq._

Urvasi and Pururavas, ii. 250

Vallabhacharyas, the, Hindoo sect, ii. 160

Varro, ii. 185, 200, 326, 381

Vatican hill, the, ii. 186

Vaughan Stevens, H., ii. 236 _n._ 1

Vegetation, influence of the sexes on, ii. 97 _sqq._; spirit of, represented by a king or queen, ii. 84, 87, 88; newly awakened in spring, ii. 70; brought to houses, 74; represented by mummers dressed in leaves, branches, and flowers, 74 _sqq._, 78 _sqq._; represented by a tree and a living man, 76; represented in duplicate by a girl and an effigy, 78; men and women masquerading as, 120

Vejovis, the Little Jupiter, ii. 179

Veleda, deified woman, i. 391

Veneti, the, ii. 353; breeders of horses, i. 27

Ventriloquism a basis of political power, i. 347

Venus (Aphrodite) and Adonis, i. 21, 25, 40, 41

Verrall, A. W., ii. 25 _n._ 2

Vesta, her sacred fires in Latium, i. 13 _sq._; at Rome, the grove of, ii. 185; called Mother, not Virgin, 198; round temple of, 200 _sq._; as Mother, 227 _sqq._; a goddess of fecundity, 229 _sq._; her fire at Rome fed with oak wood, ii. 186

Vestal fire at Rome a successor of the fire on the king’s hearth, ii. 200 _sqq._; kindled by the friction of wood, 207; at Nemi, 378 _sq._, 380; Virgins in Latium, i. 13 _sq._; become mothers by the fire, ii. 196 _sq._; regarded as wives of the fire-god, 198, 199, 229; among the Baganda, 246

Vestals, house of the, ii. 201; of the Herero, 213, 214; custom of burying alive unfaithful Vestals, 228; adore the male organ, 229; rites performed by them for the fertility of the earth and the fecundity of cattle, 229, 326; African, 150; at Rome the wives or daughters of the kings, 228; Celtic, 241 _n._ 1; Peruvian, 243 _sqq._; in Yucatan, 245 _sq._

Victims give signs of inspiration by shaking themselves, i. 384 _sq._

Victoria, the late Queen, worshipped in Orissa, i. 404

Victoria Nyanza, god of the, ii. 150

Viehe, Rev. G., ii. 213 _n._ 2, 223 _sq._

Vines blessed on the Assumption of the Virgin (15th August), i. 14 _sq._

Violent deaths of the Roman kings, ii. 313 _sqq._

Viracocha, i. 56

Virbius, the slope of, i. 4 _n._ 5, ii. 321; the mate of Diana at Nemi, i. 19-21, 40 _sq._, ii. 129; etymology of the name, 379 _n._ 5

Virgil, ii. 184, 186, 379; an antiquary as well as a poet, 178

Virgin, the Assumption of the, in relation to Diana, i. 14-16; festival of the, in the Armenian Church, 16; Mary of Kevlaar, i. 77; priestesses in Peru, Mexico, and Yucatan, ii. 243 _sqq._

Virginity offered to rivers, ii. 162

Virility, hierophant at Eleusis temporarily deprived of his, ii. 130; sacrifice of, to a goddess, 144 _sq._

Vishnu, ii. 26

Vitellius at Nemi, i. 5

Vituperation thought to cause rain, i. 278

Votive offerings at Nemi, i. 4, 6, 12, 19, 23

Voyages, telepathy in, i. 126

Vulcan, father of Caeculus, ii. 197

Vulture, magic of, i. 151

Wagogo, the, i. 123

Wagtail, the yellow, in magic, i. 79

_Walber_, the, ii. 75

Waldemar, I., King of Denmark, i. 367

Wallace, Sir D. Mackenzie, i. 407 _sq._

Walos, the, of Senegal, i. 370

Walpurgis Night, ii. 52, 54, 55, 127

Walton, Izaak, i. 326 _n._ 2

War, telepathy in, i. 126 _sqq._

“War, the sleep of,” ii. 147

Ward, Professor H. Marshall, ii. 252, 315 _n._ 1

Ward, Professor James, i. 423

Warramunga, the, i. 93, 95, 99

Wasps in magic, i. 152

Water sprinkled as rain-charm, i. 248 _sqq._; serpent or dragon of, ii. 155 _sqq._

—— and Fire, kings of, ii. 3 _sqq._

—— -lilies, charms to make water-lilies grow, i. 95, 97, 98

—— nymphs, fertilising virtue of, ii. 162

—— -spirits, propitiation of, ii. 76; sacrifices to, 155 _sqq._; as beneficent beings, 159; bestow offspring on women, 159 _sqq._

—— totem, i. 259

Waterfalls, spirits of, ii. 156, 157

Wax melted in magic, i. 77

Wealth acquired by magicians, i. 347, 348, 351, 352

Weapon and wound, contagious magic of, i. 201 _sqq._

Weaving and twining thread forbidden, i. 131

Wellhausen, J., i. 303

Wells cleansed as rain-charm, i. 267; married to the holy basil, ii. 26 _sq._; bestow offspring on women, 160 _sq._

Wends, their superstition as to oaks, ii. 55

Werner, Miss A., ii. 317 _n._ 1

Wernicke, quoted, i. 35 _sq._

Wetting people with water as a rain-charm, i. 250, 251, 269 _sq._, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277 _sq._, ii. 77

Whale-fishing, telepathy in, i. 121

Whirling or turning round, custom of, observed by mummers, i. 273, 275,