Witches, Thessalian, 895

Wives, slaughter of, as offering, 1028

Wollunqua, the, unique kind of totem, 576

Woman, magical dread of, 592

Women, alleged early scarcity of, 430;
devotion of, to cult of linga, 394;
exclusion of, from ceremonies, 592;
favored by Therapeutae, 1124;
honor shown to, after death, 370;
magical power of, 895 f.;
of Baganda, economic function of, 461

Word "church," larger sense of, 1112

World, the, future destruction of, 836;
relation of, to God, 1159;
savage conception of unity of, 885 f.

Worship, forms of, 1081 ff.;
phallic, whether connected with circumcision, 158;
practically universal, 1017

Xanthus, the, river or god in the Iliad, 312

Yacna xvii, conception of worship in, 320

Yahweh, development of, 765;
dreams sent by, 922;
early cult of, 649;
pillars of temple of, 299

Yama, history of, 735 ff.

Year, sabbatic, Hebrew, 622

Yeast, prohibition of, 265 n. 1

Yezidis, the, attitude of, toward Satan, 693

Yggdrasil, nature of, 276

Yima, 735

Yoni, the, veneration of, 406

Yoruba, gods of, 660;
rebellion in, against old custom, 628

Zealand, New, cosmology of, 670 n. 4;
despotism of taboo in, 621;
planting-taboos in, 599

Zeus, 768 f.;
dream sent by, 922

Zikkurat (Ziggurat), the, Babylonian and Assyrian, 1086

Zodiac, signs of, cult of, 716

Zoroaster, 745;
verses ascribed to, 1132

Zoroastrianism, pre-Sassanian, 1109

Zuni, the, economic ceremonies of, 497

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