Turks, parings from the nails preserved by the, i. 204; Turks of Central Asia give backward children tongues of birds to eat, ii. 87 Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough, i. 1 Turtle, the, not eaten, i. 163; sacrifice of the sacred, ii. 95-99; belief in the transmigration of human souls into, ii. 98, 99 Twelfth Day customs, ii. 143, 144, 182 Tycoons, the, i. 119 Types, two, of animal worship, ii. 133, 134 Typhon, ii. 57-60 Tyrol, expulsion of witches in the, i. 181, 182; witches said to make use of the hair cut in the, i. 199; midsummer customs in the, ii. 267 Ualaroi, ceremony at initiatory rites in, ii. 344 Uapes of Brazil, treatment of girls at the age of puberty in, ii. 334 Udvarhely, harvest home in, i. 370, 371; ceremony with the last sheaf in, ii. 9, 48 Uea, power ascribed to the souls of the dead in, i. 132 Uelzen, harvest ceremony in, ii. 13 Uganda, custom of burning the king’s brothers in, i. 181; king of, and his courtiers, i. 222 Ugi, dread of women’s blood in, i. 186; burying of cut hair in, i. 202 Uliase, sprinkling the sick with spices in, i. 154 Unyoro, kings killed in, i. 218 Upsala, sacred grove at, i. 58 Utch Kurgan, sin eating in, ii. 156, 157 Val di Ledro, fire festival in, ii. 251 Vaté, burying alive at, i. 217 Vegetation, spirit of, in human shape, i. 87, 88; slain at midsummer, i. 274, 275 Veiling, i. 162, 163 Venison not eaten, ii. 86, 87 Vermin, respect shown by primitive people for, ii. 129-132 Vestal fire, i. 5 —— virgins, hair of, i. 200 Victoria, Queen, worshipped by a sect in Orissa, i. 41 Vine, not to walk under a, i. 183; sacred to Dionysus, i. 321 Vintage, Phoenician custom at, i. 365 Virbius, legend of, i. 6; possible explanation of his relation to the Arician Diana, i. 362; and the horse, ii. 62-67; reason why he was confounded with the sun, ii. 369 Volders, threshing custom at, i. 374 Vorarlberg, fire festival at, ii. 248 Vosges Mountains, May Day customs in the, i. 76 Wadai, veiling of the Sultan of, i. 163; he must have no bodily defect, i. 221 Waganda, worship in, i. 45 Walber, the, i. 84, 86 Wallachia, corn-drenching in, i. 286 Wanika, the, believers in the souls of trees, i. 59; do not shed the blood of animals, i. 182 Wanyoro, secretion of cut hair and nails by the, i. 203 Wanzleben, harvest custom in, ii. 5 Warts, cure for, ii. 153 Warua, the, not seen eating, i. 160, 161 Wa-teita, the, their reluctance to be photographed, i. 148 Water, kings of, i. 53-56 —— fairy, English superstition regarding the, i. 146 Watjobaluk, the, and the bat, ii. 334 Weather kings, i. 44-46 —— omens, ii. 270, 271 Weevil, the, ii. 129, 130 Weiden, harvest custom in, i. 338 Welsh custom of sin eating, ii. 154, 155 Wends dancing round the oak-tree, i. 72 Wermland, custom among the threshers in, i. 378; ceremony with regard to the last sheaf in, ii. 68 West African rain-makers, i. 20 Westerhüsen, reaping custom in, i. 334