White-shark taboo, [25]
Widows and widowers, precautions taken by them against the ghosts of their spouses, [142] sqq.
Wife of wife’s brother, ceremonial avoidance of, [80]
Wife’s mother, ceremonial avoidance of, [75] sqq., [86] sq., [90] sq.
Witches burned in England, [169]
Women dying in pregnancy or childbed, fear of their ghosts, [133] sqq.
Wotjobaluk tribe of Victoria, [74]
Yabim, the, of German New Guinea, [127], [131]
Yncas of Peru, superstitious veneration for the, [15] sq.
Yucatan, Indians of, [83]