barren, hope to conceive through fertilizing influence of vegetables, [51];

creep through a rifted rock to obtain an easy delivery, [189];

not allowed to see bull-roarers, [234], [235], [242].

See also [Menstruous women]

Wonghi or Wonghibon tribe of New South Wales, ritual of death and resurrection at initiation among the, ii. [227]

Wood, the King of the, at Nemi, i. 2, 285, 286, 295, 302, 309

Woodbine, sick children passed through a wreath of, ii. [184]

Woodpecker brings the mythical springwort, ii. [70] sq.

Wootton-Wawen, in Warwickshire, the Yule log at, i. 257

“Working for need-fire,” a proverb, i. 287 sq.