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INDEX.
Vervain, superstitious uses of, 152
Wap, a fairy, 147, 150 Warwickshire, rhyme on, 82, 87 Water, origin of, Mongolian, 321 Waves, fisher-folk's notions of, 56 Wealth in folk-tale incidents, 253-254 Weather prognostications, 53, 54 Welsh, nickname for the, 88 Whistling, custom of, for wind, 54 Whiting, omen from, 183 Whooping-cough, remedy for, 153,311 Wiltshire, rhyme on, 82, 86 Win, a fairy, 147, 150 Wind, sailors' mode of obtaining, 54
personification of, in tolk-tale,
296-298 Witchcraft among fishermen, 181 • a section of folk-lore, 5, 10,
100
Yorkshire, 378
Witchcraft, in Scotland, book on, re- viewed, 189 Wizard, mode of making, folk-tale
incident, 257 Wolf in folk-tale incidents, 359-360 Woman, meeting with, unlucky to
Yorkshire fishermen, 379 Wood-pecker, Mongolian legend of,
328 Worcestershire, rhvme on, 82, 85 Word- jingles, 273-274 World, sustained by an ox, 321 Worm (red), descent of Kirghis from,
317 Worm (slow), in Indian folk-tales, 66 Wrestling in Cornwall and Devonshire, 82
Yorkshire fisher-folk superstition, 378-
379 Yorkshire, St. Mark's Eve in, 278-279
