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375
Weather proverbs, Cornish sailors and fishermen's, 181, 192, 218
rhyme, Cornish, 14
Wedding cake, beliefs about, 216
ring, beliefs about, 216
Weddings, Moorish dancers hired for, 288; see "Marriage"
"Weigh the butter, weigh the cheese," Cornish children's game, 58
Wellington, Somersetshire, witches' ladder found at, 1-5
Wells, holy, in Roscommon, Ireland, 334
West Indies, stable custom in, 315
Whooping cough, charms for cure of, 207, 211, 212
cured at Cornish holy wells, 92
Wilts, dance in Salisbury Cathedral, 303
"Winky-eye," Cornish boy's game, 61
Wise women believed in by Irish, 69
Wishing stones in Scilly Isles, 40
Witchcraft, belief in, in Cornwall, 196; in Florence, 257-259; amongst the aboriginal Formosa, 150; amongst Somersetshire people, 161; in Waterford, 266-267; remedy against, 102
Witches, cairn known as haunt of, 98
consulted for cure of disease, 196, 197, 198
consulted by farmers, Cornwall, 193, 194, 196
power of becoming toads possessed by, 198
ladder found in Somersetshire, 1-5, 81-84, 257-259, 354-356
stories of, at Tresco, Cornwall, 44
early trials of, 157-159
Wolf's dung, cure for colic, 265
Women, Hindu, dance performed by, 253-254
Women's parts in theatrical representations taken by boys in Southern India, 247
Wood (Rev. —), Cornish ghost layer, 24-25
Worms, Irish plant cure for, 13
"Wreckers," Cornish proverb on, 18
Wren superstitious belief about, 213
Yarrow, cure for kidney diseases, 13
York, dancing in churches on Shrove Tuesday, 303
Yorkshire, custom in, 74
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