Wotjobaluk, the, [64]

Wounding the dead or dying, custom of, [13] sq.

Wrestling-matches in honour of the dead, [97]

Wurmlingen in Swabia, Whitsuntide custom at, [207] sq.;

the Carnival Fool at, [231] sq.

Wyse, W., [144]

Xeres, Fr., early Spanish historian, [185]

Xerxes in Thessaly, [161], [163]

Ximanas, an Indian tribe of the Amazon, kill all their firstborn children, [185] sq.

Yarilo, the funeral of, [261], [262] sq.