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romances, suggested Welsh origin, 271 ; Arthur's stone in Gower, 77 birth customs and beliefs, 189 death and funeral customs, 189 giants of, 237 ; Grail legend, Welsh versions of, 350 ; streams of tradition rising in, 356 ; Welsh folk-literature, 41, 42, 46 ; and ballads, 49

Walking of corpses, Danish way of preventing, 216, 217

Wallaby, red, in Australian folklore,

Walling-up of nuns and others, pro- bable origin of stories of, 367

Warrambool, Australian name for Milky Way, 301

Washerwoman, the, legend of, 91

Water ; in Black Lad festivities, 381, 382 ; to cure enchantment, 234 ; to cure Evil Eye, 87, 90 ; from under a bridge as a horse cure, 378 ; in which a corpse has been washed to prevent its walking, 217 ; Ganges water in idol ceremonies, 277 ; in marriage customs in India, 140 ; in rain-procuring ceremonies, India, 278, 279 ; in isolation of sacred fire, Scotland, 28 1 ; in con- nection with serpents, 179

Wayland, the smith, 43, 44

Weapons, Greek, 132

Weather Lore ; a Collection of Pro- verbs, Sayings, aiid Ru'es con- cerning the Weather, by Richard Inwards, reviewed, 344

Weaver, the, Kashmir tale, 122

Weaving, a mystic art, 124 ; of Roman wedding dress, 127

Webb, the, of Penelope, a shroud, 100, 122 ; a wedding dress, 122 ; parallels, 121, 257

Wedding dresses, of various races, 124, 128

Weddings; Indian, see India; riddles at Russian, 259

Wells as dwellings of rain-gods, 279 ; pins and metal in, 368 ; sacred, 16 ; in medicinal folklore, 377

Werewolves {see Lycaon), Danish folklore, 215

Westphalia, folklore of, 344, 345

Wheel ceremony, by E. Peacock,

293 Whipping out ghosts, at Launceston, 371 VOL. IX. 2 E

White, usual colour for wedding dresses and shrouds, 124

Whooping cough, cure for, 334

Widows, status of, in Greece, 106, 112, 113 ; in India, 104, 105 ; in Ireland, 106 ; in Scotland, 104, 105, 106

Wife-purchase in India, 105 ; in Homeric days, 106, ill

Willoughby, Sir Hugh, cited, 103

Wind ; in relation to Australian gods, 305 ; and the Devil, 273, 274, 364 ; riddle on, 261

Wind-god, Odin as, 275

Wiraijuri tribe, Australia, belief as to Daramulun, 297 ; exogamy amongst, 298

Witch -bar, the, in the shrew ash at Richmond, 330, 334. 335

Witchcraft in Denmark, 213-214 ; in Fife, 285 ; in Ireland, 255

Witches {see also Kitty-witches), in hyena form, 306

Wizards, Australian, 297, 306, 307 ; medical, in Denmark, 196

Wodan {see also Odin), survival of cult in Lines., 186; supersession of, by saints in Germany, 345

Woiworung tribe, Australia, its totems, 305

Wolfram, cited on tlie Grail, 355

Wolgal tribe, Australia, divinity of, 295, 296

Women ; fate of captive, 104 ; de- barred from knowledge of the gods, Australia, 295, 309 ; Druze women, 7 ; Greek, status of, 106, 107 ; in time of Euripides and earlier, 113 ; Heads to be covered whilst eating, 344 : heroines of the Nekuia, 113 ; Indian, at weddings, 136, et seqq ; dress of, 152 ; making of, Australian belief, 307 ; racial ad- mixture, in relation to, and folk- lore diffusion, 34 ; savage taboos of, and consequences, 252, 253, 297, 327 ; position of, among the Kurnai tribe, Australia, 318

Wooing, the, of Penelope, by W. Crooke, 97

Worship of the dead, 64 ; at grave- sides, 277 ; well-gods, 279

Wortaberglaiibe7i, Uebcr, von Ferd, Freiherr von Andrian, &c., re- viewed, 77

Wound in leg recognised, version of recognition test, 131