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Index.

of the North Riding of Yorks, by R. Blakeborough, reviewed by Florence Peacock, 349 Witchcraft, 475, coloured threads in, 282 ; as related to Fetish, 448 ; at Piddlehinton, 482, et sqq. ; in Wexford, 363-4 Witches, {see also Sorcerers, Wise men a;/r/ Wizards), coloured threads used by, 282 ; coming against the sun, 268 ; in Dorsetshire, 480, sqq. ; driven from cattle by whip-crack- ing, 180 ; Gelou the witch, charm against, 163 ; hare-form assumed, by, 4S8 ; Indian, characteristics, 424-5 ; precautions against, see Horseshoe, Iron, Nails and Pins ; setting water on fire, 424, of the Southern Sporades, 151 ; straw torches used to scare, loi ; turned to stone, 207, 208 Wizard, one-legged cannibal, 2IO,

turned into the blue jay, 213 Wizard's dust, see Wirreenun ;

ecstasy, 328 Wizards, of the Baronga, 227 ; arts of, 152, crystals, of, 55, principal functions of, 106 Wolf-binding charm, 152 Wolf-skin, to keep off Evil Eye, 359 Woman, {see Widow, Wife, etc.), carried off by fairies, Ireland, 121 ; making of by Sqaktktquaclt, 2IO ; married in her shift, 476 Women, {see Wise men and Women, Witches), Australian, debarred from the sacred knowledge, 31, rules concerning, 42, 43, names of, for Australian gods, 38 ; barren, ceremonies in aid of, Bury St. Edmunds, 355, Indian, 392-3 ; literary, in Japan, 304, as rulers of Japan, 303, Kalikazari fond of eating, 175 ; not lucky to meet,

when, 271 ; Suicides of in desperate cases, Rajputana custom, 442 ; Superstition regarding, 365 ; Tabu of, in Indian folklore, 423, 427 ; tabooed to Imbe, Japan, 307 ; un- wise to praise, India, 423 ; do no work on certain days, 179

Woodpecker, redheaded, in folktale of British Columbia, 195

Wood-pigeon, in African folktale, 284

Wooden wife, British Columbia, 209- 10

Wool, black, in charms, 279

Wor Barrow, contents, 90

Wreaths, funeral, in Japan, 321

Yama, Indian god of the underworld,

301 Yana myths, 341, 342 Yeats, W. B., see Traditions and

Superstitions collected by Bryan J.

Jones, Yomi, Japanese Hades, 300 Young men's customs. North

American Indian, 195-6 Younger brother, in Japanese myth,

312 Youngest son, Lesbos, 495 Yorkshire, folklore of, 349

Zanzibar, marriage customs of, 229 ; rainmaking methods at, 230; snake- skin used in cure for consumption at, 231 ; tree- worship in, 230 Zenobius, proverbs collected by, 152 Zeus, cannibal sacrifices to. 40; death of, iS, 50, grave of, lO, 13; and the oak-tree, 19 Zone, in Indian folklore, 427 Zuidema, Dr. W., Kitty-witches,

246 ; Wall Burial, 360 Zufii creation myth, 33

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.

Names of Authors of Articles in Periodicals in ordinary rornan type, of Authors of Books in italics. Titles of Periodicals in small capitals.

Abercromby, Hon. J., 124

Adler, C, and Casanowicz, J. M.

(joint authors), 127 American Anthropologist, 256,

504

L'Annee Sociologique, 256 Annual Report on British New

Guinea, 368 Archaeologia Cambrensis,

126