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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-
