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Index.

Waterspouts taken for dragons, Korea, 332

Water wagtail, sec Wagtail

Weasel, caught before St. George's Day, 255 ; form of soul, 235 ; human being as, 236 ; hunted down, Ireland, 255 ; killed for magic, Mecklenburg, 255 ; re- spected locally. 242

Weathercocks : animals as vanes, 323: put up as festival custom, Xent,

323

Wednesday, Rumanian charm pro- nounced on, 131 ; unlucky to begin things on, Egypt, 394; unlucky to drink milk on, Cairo 381

Weevil, respected, Esthonia, 242

Well : afrit in, Cairene folktale, 374 ; dragons and spirits of, Korea, 332 ; Duneistein (Lewis), cures tooth- ache, 445-6 ; Loch Carloway (Lewis), never whitens linen, 446; St. Covvston's, Garabost (Lewis), never boils meat, 446 ; St. An- drew's, Shiadair (Lewis), fore- tells fate of patient, 446

Welsh People, The, by J. Rhys and D. Brynmor-Jones, reviewed by A. Nutt, 399-401

W^elton farmhouse, fairy blacksmiths at (///.), 211

Wends, respect weasel, 242 ; throw goat from edifice, July 25th, 257

Werwolves, 238

Weston, J. L., review by, Freymond's Artus' Kampf init dem Katzemtn- getiim, 414-6

Westphalia, tribal customs, 265

Wetterau, wagtail respected, 242

Whipping, ceremonial, 21, 263

Whips, cracked by boys in proces- sion, Kandy, 456

Whirlwind demon, Krishna's contest with, 14-5

Whistling after dark attracts snakes, Cairo, 380

Whitby, Shrove Tuesday ball-playing at, 21

White animals : {see also Butterfly ; Cat ; Crane ; Dog ; Mouse ; aiid Snake) ; revered by savages, 176

White lady strangles solitary night travellers, Eg\'pt, 387

White witches, see Wise women

Whitsuntide, deer hunted, Oxford- shire, 250 ; lamb hunted, Kidling- ton, 251

Wicklow, weasel hunted, 255 Wife killed at husband's funeral, 91 Wild birds, aversion to use their

feathers in beds, 243 Wildfowl, tabooed locally, 243 Willow tree, in Greek charm, 143 ;

in Rumanian charm, 141 Willy Howe barrow, 79 Wilton, May Day custom, 210 Wiltshire : {see also Marlborough ; Roundway Down ; Salisbury ; Silbury Hill ; W^arminster ; and Wilton); death and burial customs, 344-7 Wincanton, Somerset, blood drawn

to break spell, 11 1-2 Wind, the, in mythology of Thomp- son Indians, British Columbia,

39S. .

Windmaids, in Rumanian charm, 129-30

Winter : Midwinter festival of Iroquois, 190

Wise man or wizard, see Wizard

Wise women, Devon, 215 ; Dorset, loS, 1 1 1-2 ; Iceland, 29S

Witchcraft : animal substitutes in, 238; Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, reviewed, 309 ; crow hung in cowhouse to avert, Linda, 255 ; Devonshire, 215 ; dog's tail cut to protect from, Olden- burg, 457 ; Dorset, 107-9 ! Ice- land (Greltis Saga), 412-3 ; India, 90 ; origin of diseases, 1 79 ; " reaping maiden " a protection against, Kilmartin, 441 ; Rous- sillon, 315; Somerset. 111-2

Witches : animal forms of, 235 ; Bedd Gelert, 424 ; connected with mask- wearing customs, 264-5 ' drawing blood from, Dorset, 109, ill ; in Bernese Oberland, 202 ; kept out by driving nail in track, Devon, 216; Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Child-stealing Witch, by M. Gaster, 129-62

Withershins walk of witch when bespelling log, Grettis Saga, 412

Wizard : bumble-bee as familiar spirit, Louth (Lin. ), 438 ; charmer not to be paid, but receives present, Devon, 217 ; charmer receives handsel, S. Uist, 440

Woden, cult of, 81-8, 282-3, 292-3

Wolf : {see also Werwolves) ; carried in procession, 258 ; caught be-