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averts ill-luck, Ontario, 225-6 ; and naming poet, Ontario, 227 ; ratified by gift, Scandinavia etc., 258-9
Wishing Trees : Devon, 31
Witchcraft : {see also Charms and spells ; Magic ; Witches ; Wizards) ; amulets against, Breconsh., 513, Manipur, 452, Spain, I ; charms against, On- tario, 224, Oxon, 83, Piedmont, 363 ; Oxon, 83-4 ; Piedmont, 362-3 ; Wales, no
Witches : amulets against, Spain, 73 ; Awemba, 269 ; charms against, Ontario, 224 ; elf-locks are saddles, Ontario, 224 ; stop to count leaves, Greece, 127
Withemsea : gipsies, 349
Witney : wife-selling, 76
Witoto Indians : 42-3, 62 ; names, 46-7 ; palm-tree vener- ated, 57
Wives : {see also Marriage customs and behefs ; Wife-beating ; Widows) ; selling, Oxon, 76
Wizards : Awemba, 269 ; Giiyaks, 483 ; Ontario, 224 ; Pokomo, 461 ; S. Amer. Indians, 45-6, 55. 59 ; Thonga, 146
Women : {see also Birth customs and beliefs ; Girls ; Marriage customs and behefs ; Mother- right ; Widows ; Wives) ; in folk-songs, Oxon, 82 ; gods prefer as servitors, Manipur, 428-9 ; names, S. Amer. Indians, 47 ; objects touched by dress unclean, gipsies, 326 ;
position of, Abyssinia, 199, Oxon, 75, S. Amer. Indians, 48 ; in proverbs, Oxon, 76, Pied- mont, 91-6 Wonghi : name, 167-9 Woodlouse : in tale, Breconsh.,
516 Wood-spirits : Wales etc., 254-5 Worcestershire : (see also Bel- broughton) ; lucky and unlucky deeds, 226-7 ; parsley not trans- planted, 240 Wren : not killed, Oxon, 89 Wright, A. R. : Japanese Spirits, Mythology, and Folk-Tales, 8 ; Twentieth-Century Marriage Customs, 250-1 ; Vehicle Mas- cots, 524 Wiirtemburg .: magic book, 139 Wymondham : church ownership, 134-5
Yam : in song, Kiwai Papuans, 299
Yao : tale, 473
Year : named, Manipur, 525
Yorkshire : {see also Darton ; Rossington ; Withernsea) ; folk- medicine, 360-1 ; gipsies, 336 ; hawthorn a death tree, 31 ; omens, 222, 361 ; saying, 509 ; unlucky deeds, 226 ; weather sign, 220
Yuin : group names, 170
Yumjau, household goddess, 444, 454
Zeus, 36 Zubaki, 457-8
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