Worms, popular cure for, i. 17
Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), ii. [58] n. 3;
burnt to stupefy witches, i. 345;
superstitions concerning, ii. [61] n. 1
Worship of ancestors in Fiji, ii. [243] sq.;
of the oak explained by the frequency with which oaks are struck by lightning, [298] sqq.
Worth, R. N., on burnt sacrifices in Devonshire, i. 302
Worthen, in Shropshire, the Yule log at, i. 257
Wotjobaluk, of South-Eastern Australia, sex totems among the, ii. [215] sq.
Wounding were-wolves in order to compel them to resume their human shape, i. 308 sqq.