Wissowa, Professor G., on introduction of Phrygian rites at Rome, i. 267 _n._; on Orcus, ii. 231 _n._ 5; on Ops and Consus, 233 _n._ 6; on the marriage of the Roman gods, 236 _n._ 1 Wives of dead kings sacrificed at their tombs, ii. 168 Wives, human, of gods, i. 61 _sqq._, ii. 207; in Western Asia and Egypt, 70 _sqq._ Wiwa chiefs reincarnated in pythons, ii. 193 Wogait, Australian tribe, their belief in conception without cohabitation, i. 103 Woman feeding serpent in Greek art, i. 87 _sq._; as inspired prophetess of a god, ii. 257 Woman’s dress assumed by men to deceive dangerous spirits, ii. 262 _sq._ Women pass through holed stones as cure for barrenness, i. 36, with _n._ 4; impregnated by dead saints, 78 _sq._; impregnated by serpents, 80 _sqq._; fear to be impregnated by ghosts, 93; impregnated by the flower of the banana, 93; excluded from sacrifices to Hercules, 113 _n._ 1; their high importance in the social system of the Pelew Islanders, ii. 205 _sqq._; the cultivation of the staple food in the hands of women (Pelew Islands), 206 _sq._; their social importance increased by the combined influence of mother-kin and landed property, 209; their legal superiority to men in ancient Egypt, 214; impregnated by fire, 235; priests dressed as, 253 _sqq._; dressed as men, 255 _n._ 1, 257; excluded from sacrifices to Hercules, 258 _n._ 5; dressed as men at marriage, 262 _sqq._; dressed as men at circumcision, 263. _See also_ Barrenness, Childless, _and_ Sacred Women —— as prophetesses inspired by dead chiefs, ii. 192 _sq._; inspired by gods, 207 ——, living, regarded as the wives of dead kings, ii. 191, 192; reputed the wives of gods, 207 Women’s hair, sacrifice of, i. 38 _Wororu_, man supposed to cause conception in women without sexual intercourse, i. 105 Worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantu tribes of Africa, ii. 174 _sqq._; among the Khasis of Assam, 203 —— of the dead perhaps fused with the propitiation of the corn-spirit, i. 233 _sqq._; among the Bantu tribes, ii. 174 _sqq._ —— of dead kings and chiefs in Africa, ii. 160 _sqq._; among the Barotse, 194 _sq._; an important element in African religion, 195 _sq._ —— of hot springs, i. 206 _sqq._ —— of mephitic vapours, i. 203 _sqq._ —— of volcanoes, i. 216 _sqq._ Worshippers of Osiris forbidden to injure fruit-trees and to stop up wells, ii. 111 “Wounds between the arms” of Hebrew prophets, i. 74 _n._ 4 “—— of the Naaman,” Arab name for the scarlet anemone, i. 226 Wreaths as amulets, ii. 242 _sq._ Wünsch, R., on the _Anthesteria_, i. 235 _n._ 1; on modern survivals of festivals of Adonis, 246; on Easter ceremonies in the Greek church, 254 _n._ Wyse, W., ii. 35 _n._ 1, 51 _n._ 1 Xenophanes of Colophon on the Egyptian rites of mourning for gods, ii. 42, 43