—— -dance of king before the ghosts of his ancestors, ii. 192 Warner, Mr., on Caffre ideas about lightning, ii. 177 _n._ 1 Warramunga of Central Australia, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 100; their tradition of purification by fire, 180 _n._ 2 Warts supposed to be affected by the moon, ii. 149 Water thrown on the last corn cut, a rain-charm, i. 237 _sq._; marvellous properties attributed to, at Midsummer (the festival of St. John), 246 _sqq._; prophetic, drunk on St. John’s Eve, 247 —— of Life, i. 9 Waterbrash, a Huzul cure for, ii. 149 _sq._ Wave accompanying earthquake, i. 202 _sq._ Weaning of children, belief as to the, in Angus, ii. 148 Weavers, caste of, i. 62 Weeks, Rev. J. H., on inconsistency of savage thought, i. 5 _n._; on the names for the supreme god among many tribes of Africa, ii. 186 _n._ 5 _Wellalaick_, festival of the dead among the Letts, ii. 74 Wen-Ammon, Egyptian traveller, i. 14, 75 _sq._ West, Oriental religions in the, i. 298 _sqq._ Westermann, D., on the worship of Nyakang among the Shilluks, ii. 165 Whalers, their bodies cut up and used as charms, ii. 106 Wheat forced for festival, i. 243, 244, 251 _sq._, 253 —— and barley, the cultivation of, introduced by Osiris, ii. 7; discovered by Isis, 116 Whip made of human skin used in ceremonies for the prolongation of the king’s life, ii. 224, 225 Whitby, All Souls’ Day at, ii. 79 White, Rev. G. E., on dervishes of Asia Minor, i. 170 White, Miss Rachel Evelyn (Mrs. Wedd), on the position of women in ancient Egypt, ii. 214 _n._ 1, 216 _n._ 1 White the colour of Upper Egypt, ii. 21 _n._ 1 —— birds, souls of dead kings incarnate in, ii. 162 —— bull, soul of a dead king incarnate in a, ii. 164 —— Crown of Upper Egypt, ii. 20, 21 _n._ 1; worn by Osiris, 87 —— roses dyed red by the blood of Aphrodite, i. 226 Whydah, King of, his worship of serpents, i. 67; serpents fed at, 86 _n._ 1 Wicked after death, fate of the, in Egyptian religion, ii. 14 Widow-burning in Greece, i. 177 _n._ 3 Widowed Flamen, the, ii. 227 _sqq._ Wiedemann, Professor A., on Wen-Ammon, i. 76 _n._ 1; on the Egyptian name of Isis, ii. 50 _n._ 4 Wigtownshire, harvest custom in, i. 237 _n._ 4 Wiimbaio tribe of South-Eastern Australia, their medicine-men, i. 75 _n._ 4 Wilkinson, Sir J. G., on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, ii. 91 _n._ 3 Wilson, C. T., and R. W. Felkin, on the worship of the dead kings of Uganda, ii. 173 _n._ 2 Winckler, H., his excavations at Boghaz-Keui, i. 125 _n._, 135 _n._ Winged deities, i. 165 _sq._ —— disc as divine emblem, i. 132 Winnowing-fans, ashes of human victims scattered by, ii. 97, 106 Winter called Cronus, ii. 41 —— sleep of the god, ii. 41 —— solstice reckoned the Nativity of the Sun, i. 303; Egyptian ceremony at the, ii. 50