ame, 422.

Trumpet, for announcing visitors, 547.

Tub-fast, 292.

Turkey, 158.

Turquoise, supposed virtues of, 393.

Tutelary guardians, 57.

Twelfth Day, 297.

Tybert or Tybalt, cat so called, 172.

Unicorn, mode of betraying, 199.

Up-spring, German dance, 431, 432.

Urchin, name for fairy, 9, 17.

Urchins' dance, 9.

Valentine's (St.) Day, 298;
birds choose their mates on, 298;
selecting valentines on, 298;
customs in France on, 298.

Vervain, divination by, 318.

Vice, character in old miracle-plays, 314.

Violet, associated with early death, 244;
superstition relating to, 244.

_Virus lunare_, 75.

Vitalis (St.) invoked in case of nightmare, 283.

Vulture, 158.

Wagtail, used in opprobrious sense, 158.

Wakes, 331.

Walking fire, name for _ignis fatuus_, 86.

Wandering, knight, name of sun, 63;
stars, 78, 79.

War-cry, 547.

Warden, name of pear, 235.

Wasp, 262.

Wassail, bowl, 205;
candle, 330.

Wat, name for hare, 188.

Water, casting, 293;
galls, name for rainbow, 91.

Waxen images, used by witches, 37.

Weasel, considered ominous, 200;
kept in houses, 200;
said to be quarrelsome, 200.

Weathercocks, 108.

Web-and-pin, name for cataract, 269.

Wedding-torch, 357.

Were-wolf, mark of, 31.

Westward, ho, exclamation, 531.

Whale, 504.

Wheel, punishment of, 441.

Whipping, 442.

Whistling of swan, 157.

White dog-rose, 240.

Whitsun, ale, 312;
mysteries, 311.

Whitsuntide, 310.

Wild-goose chase, 118.

Will-o'-the-wisp, 8, 85.

Will-with-a-wisp, 87.

Willow, symbol of sadness, 245;
garlands made of, 245.

Winchester, college, custom at, 387;
goose, 119.

Wind, weather-lore of, 94;
sale of, 34.

Winding-sheet, 380, 516.

Wisp, punishment for a scold, 442.

Witches, in "Macbeth," 27;
create storms, 32;
drawing blood from, 32;
propitiation of, 32;
powers limited, 31;
harass horses, 190;
offspring of, 40;
say their prayers backwards, 40;
sell or give winds, 34;
ointment, 36;
intercourse between, and demons, 40;
protection from, 32;
vanish at will, 35;
destroy cattle, 39;
look into futurity, 36;
beard, characteristic of, 29;
trials, 36.

Witch of Brentford, 27.

Wits, the five, 496.

Woodcock, applied to a foolish person, 159.

Worm, a poor creature, 256;
name for serpent, 254;
toothache, said to be caused by, 290.

Wormwood used in weaning, 246