Venus, the bearded, in Cyprus, ii. 259 _n._ 3 Vernal festival of Adonis, i. 226 Verrall, A. W., on the _Anthesteria_, i. 235 _n._ 1 Vertumnus and Pomona, ii. 235 _n._ 6 Vestal Virgin, mother of Romulus and Remus, ii. 235 —— Virgins, rule as to their election, ii. 244 Vicarious sacrifices for kings, ii. 220 _sq._ Vicarious and nutritive types of sacrifice, ii. 226 Victims, sacrificial, hung on trees, i. 146 Victoria Nyanza Lake, Mukasa the god of the, ii. 257 Victory, temple of, on the Palatine Hill at Rome, i. 265 Viehe, Rev. G., on the worship of the dead among the Herero, ii. 187 _n._ 1 Vine, the cultivation of, introduced by Osiris, ii. 7, 112 Vintage festival, Oschophoria, at Athens, ii. 258 _n._ 6 —— rites at Athens, ii. 238 Violets sprung from the blood of Attis, i. 267 Virbius or Dianus at Nemi, i. 45 Virgin, the Heavenly, mother of the Sun, i. 303 —— birth of Perseus, i. 302 _n._ 4 —— Mary and Isis, ii. 118 _sq._ —— Mother, the Phrygian Mother Goddess as a, i. 281 —— mothers, tales of, i. 264; of gods and heroes, 107 Virginity, sacrifice of, i. 60; recovered by bathing in a spring, 280 Virgins supposed to conceive through eating certain food, i. 96 Virility, sacrifice of, in the rites of Attis and Astarte, i. 268 _sq._, 270 _sq._; other cases of, 270 _n._ 2 Vitrolles, bathing at Midsummer at, i. 248 Viza, in Thrace, Carnival custom at, ii. 91 Volcanic region of Cappadocia, i. 189 _sqq._ —— religion, i. 188 _sqq._ Volcanoes, the worship of, i. 216 _sqq._; human victims thrown into, 219 _sq._ Vosges, the Upper, rule as to the shearing of sheep in, ii. 134 _n._ 3 —— Mountains, feast of All Souls in the, ii. 69 Votiaks of Russia, annual festivals of the dead among the, ii. 76 _sq._ Voyage in boats of papyrus in the rites of Osiris, ii. 88 Vulcan, the fire-god, father of Caeculus, ii. 235 ——, the husband of Maia or Majestas, ii. 232 _sq._; his Flamen, 232 —— and Venus, ii. 231 Wabisa, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, ii. 174 Wabondei, of Eastern Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82; their rule as to the cutting of posts for building, ii. 137 Wachsmuth, C., on Easter ceremonies in the Greek Church, i. 254 Wagogo, the, of German East Africa, their ceremony at the new moon, ii. 143 Wahehe, a Bantu tribe of German East Africa, the worship of the dead among the, ii. 188 _sqq._; their belief in a supreme god Nguruhe, 188 _sq._ Wailing of women for Adonis, i. 224 Wajagga of German East Africa, their way of appeasing ghosts of suicides, i. 292 _n._ 3; their human sacrifices at irrigation, ii. 38 Wales, All Souls’ Day in, ii. 79 Wallachia, harvest custom in, i. 237 Wamara, a worshipful dead king, ii. 174 Waning of the moon, theories to account for the, ii. 130; time for felling timber, 135 _sqq._ War, sacrifice of a blind bull before going to, ii. 250 _sq._