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Wad Dra valley, Morocco, 27
Wagtail : in folktale, Loango, 399
Wales, see U7ider names of counties
Wallachia, see Huculs
Walpari tribe : taboos, 472
Wandorobo tribe : deluge legend, 236 ; in Masai legend, 235
Warramunga tribe : taboos, 472 ; organisation, 469, 473
Washing, ceremonial, see Bathing
Water : (see also Lakes ; Ponds ; Rain ; Rivers and streams ; Springs ; and Wells) ; dirty, unlucky to step over, Jamaica, 69 ; lustration ceremonies, midsummer, Morocco, 32, New Year, Morocco, 41 ; magic energy at midsummer, Morocco, 32, and New Year, Morocco, 41 ; provided at night for duppies, Jamaica, 70 ; thrown out at night may wet duppy, Jamaica, 70
Water-buck : head and horns in sacred grove, Loango, 404
Water gods : Dianus (Janus), Nemi, 289-90 ; Jupiter, 274
Water-nymphs in Greek folklore, 21; Italy, 290
Water spirits : Faroes, 487
Waterspouts : charm to destroy, Greeks, 190- 1
Weasel : uses rue as protective, 137-8
Weather lore: {see also 'R.a.in; Storms; and Wind) ; Jupiter as weather god, 263-72 ; omens of weather, Ja- maica, 75
Webb, F. N., Spnpathy, 337
Wedding customs and beliefs, see Marriage customs and beliefs
Wednesday : {see also Whit- Wednes- day ) ; in game, Ross-shire, 81
Weights : stones used as hung in fruit trees, Morocco, 36
Weimar : Mitzschke's Sagenschatz dtr Stadt IVe/mar reviewed, 491 -3
Wells : fairies dance round, Mon- mouthshire, 176 ; Fontus, god of, 290 ; of Juturna, Rome, 271-2 ; Vir- tuous wells, Trelleck, 165-6, 176-7
Wer-beasts : crocodile, Congo, 392-3 ;
leopard, Loango, 392-3 IVest Africa before Europe, and Other Addresses, by E. W. Blyden, re- viewed, 495-6
West African Beliefs, by A. Lang,
109-113 Westermarck, Dr. E., Midsummer Customs in Morocco, 2, 27-47
West Indies, see Jamaica
Westman Isles : beliefs about puffin, 488, and little auk, 489 ; folksongs, 489
W^estmoreland : folk-songs, 127
Weston, Miss J. L. : The Scoppio del Carro at Florence, 131, 182-4; note on The Legend of Merlin, 427
West wind (Bunzi) : basket fetish brought by, Loango, 378-9
Whale : vertebrae in sacred grove, Loango, 401 ; v.'orld rests on two whales, 423
Wheat : burnt in Midsummer fires, Morocco, 31 ; eaten ceremonially, midsummer, Morocco, 36, and at sowing, Morocco, 39, and tent- pitching, Morocco, 39-40
Wheel : amulet in shape of, China, 369 ; burning, rolled down hill, Germany, 45 ; cakes in shape of, Romans, 272 ; on coinage, Italy, 272 ; solar wheel of mistletoe god, Greece, 285 ; sun the wheel of For- tuna, Italy, 285 ; as symbol of sun, Romans, 272
Wherry, Miss B. A. : communication by, 187-90; Miscellaneous Notes from Monmouthshire, 63-7
Wherry, Mrs. A. : The Dancing- Tower Possessions of Italy, 131, 242-57 {plates) ; The Elder Tree, 100 ; exhibit by, 1 31
Whistling : if in night, duppies may catch voice, Jamaica, 70
Whitby : arms of, 334 (plate) ; St. Hilda's snakes, 241 ; Whitby Snake- Ammonite Myth, by E. Lovett, 333-4 (plate)
White : colour of fairies, Monmouth- shire, 63 ; if ghost in, dangerous, Jamaica, 74
White animals, see Chicken ; Cock ; Fowls ; Fulmar ; Horse ; Puffin ; and Snake
White magic, see Charms and spells ; Wise women ; atid Wizards
Whit-Sunday : Coptic name for, 43
Whitsuntide, in droll. Forest of Dean, 178-9
Whit-W ednesday : mock mayor, Headington, 464-5
Whooping-cough, charm against, Adisham, 225
Widows : childless, tent burnt for luck, Midsummer, Morocco, 31
