Virgin, Antichrist born of, ii. 257;
Merlin born of, ii. 394 (see Madonna);
Virgin and viper, ii. 410

Virginity, ii. 231

Virgins of the Parable, fatal, ii. 427

Vishnu, i. 144, 161, 418; ii. 235, 362, 369

Vishtasp, narcotic, ii. 431

Viswámitra, ii. 23, 32 seq.

Vivien beguiles Merlin, ii. 398

Vladimir, ii. 356

Voland, ii. 379

Volmer’s hunt, ii. 376

Voltaire, his deathbed, i. 280;
diabolised, ii. 349, 425;
dislike to raven, ii. 367

Vortigern, i. 369, 370; ii. 398

Vritra, i. 36, 151, 170, 171, 322, 355, 356, 413

Vulcan, i. 170, 171

—— temple to, on Etna, i. 156

Vulgate, cit. i. 19

Wagner, myths used by, i. 86

Waldemar’s hunt, ii. 276, 277

Walpurga, St., ii. 378

Walpurgis night, i. 190, 234

Wandjäger, ii. 353

Wansbeck river, legend, i. 118

Wasserkelch church, ii. 396

Watchnight, i. 90

Water spirits, i. 113 seq., 120

Waterspouts, i. 107

Wauljäger, ii. 353

Wayland, Vedic Vala, i. 19

Wear, river, legend, i. 118

Werewolves, i. 158, 303, 314, 315;
girdle, ii. 318

Wesley, his watchnight, i. 190;
on Mohammed, ii. 250;
and the Cock Lane ghost, ii. 309

Wesleyans and theatres, ii. 273

Wessamonny, Singhalese demon, i. 97, 355

Westminster Abbey, Hell denounced in, ii. 239

Whirlwinds, i. 105

White Lady, ii. 361, 377 seq.

Wild Huntsman, i. 139; ii. 353 seq.

Williams, Prof. M., cit. i. 50

Will-o’-wisp, i. 212 seq., 225

Wilten, monk at, i. 200

Wind demons, i. 88, 89;
bride, i. 106

Windeschmann, cit. i. 283

Wine devil, ii. 392, 415 seq.

Winter demons, i. 77 seq.

Wirtel, Danube, i. 115

Witches, yellow slippers, i. 215; ii. 288 seq.;
Salem, ii. 314;
trial, ii. 315;
confessions, ii. 218 seq.;
testing, ii. 317;
in Virginia, ii. 326;
biblical, ii. 327;
execution, ii. 327 seq., 386

Wittenberg forest and Faust, ii. 337

Wodan, i. 99, 100, 310, 313; ii. 353

Wodejäger, ii. 353

Wolf legends, i. 140, 144, 154, 318;
glen, ii. 361

Women, protected, i. 319 seq.;
first in India, ii. 75;
Persia, ii. 77;
diabolised, ii. 85 seq.;
rib-theory of, ii. 103;
as tempter, ii. 191 seq.;
why witches were chiefly women, ii. 195;
Malleus Maleficorum on, ii. 300;
Euripides and Milton concerning, ii. 409

World, Goethe’s ‘Faust’ on the, ii. 352

Worms, i. 332, 336;
City of, i. 366;
Laidley, i. 367, 368;
Lambton, i. 387, 411 seq.;
Sockburn, i. 388;
Somerville, i. 389;
of Time, i. 342;
poetic, ii. 393

Wrath, Day of, Mary in, ii. 429

Wuchang, temple of horrors, ii. 424

Wustanges Heer, ii. 353

Wuttke, Dr., cit. i. 160; ii. 307, 353, 374

Yakkos, Yakshas, i. 151 seq.

Yama, King of Death, i. 6

Year, old and new, i. 89, 90

Yellow slippers of witches, i. 215

Yemma, king of Hades, Jap., i. 195

Yeous, the giant, i. 207 seq.

Yezedis, i. 27

Yimi, i. 283

Ynglinga Saga, i. 162; ii. 371

Yorimitsa, Japanese hero, ii. 406 seq.

York Cathedral, i. 32

Yule-tide, i. 23

Yü Shüt, Chinese rain-god, i. 105

Zafarana, Sicilian story, ii. 369

Zamhor, i. 26

Zamiel, ii. 300, 361

Zerffi, Dr., cit. ii. 286

Zeruâne-Akrane, ii. 235

Zeus, i. 402; ii. 235

—— etymology, i. 17

—— Fates of, i. 420 seq.

—— Fly-god, i. 10

—— jealous, i. 59

—— Lightning-wielder, i. 97

—— in ‘Iliad,’ ii. 402

Zinzendorf, i. 347

Zohak, i. 359; ii. 176, 234, 363, 364

Zophar, ii. 152, 154

Zoroaster, i. 60, 154; ii. 24, 172, 184, 431

Zum Loch, Zurich, Charlemagne at, ii. 395