Wallis Island, tabooed persons not allowed to handle food in, iii. 140
Walls of houses beaten to expel ghosts, iii. 170;
maladies and devils nailed into, ix. 62 sqq.;
fortified, of the ancient Gauls, x. 267 sq.
Walnut, branches of, passed across Midsummer fires and fastened on cattle-sheds, x. 191
Walo, on the Senegal, the king of, not to be seen eating, iii. 118
Walos of Senegambia, their royal family thought to possess the power of healing by touch, i. 370 sq.;
their belief as to sort of mistletoe, xi. 79 sq.
Walpi, Pueblo Indian village, use of bull-roarers at, xi. 231