Chapter XVII: Historical Summary (3)

Uxellimus, Gaulish god, 207.

Vacomagi, The, 129.

Veneti, The, Pictones assist Romans against, 224.

-- Picts and, 131.

Venus. See _Aphrodite_.

-- the British, 204.

-- Cæsar offered British pearls to, 79.

-- origin of, 38.

-- the Scandinavian, 161.

Vernicones, The, in Scotland, 129.

Viking ship, origin of, 76.

Votadini, in Scotland, 129.

Vulcan, the Celtic, 202, 203.

Warfare, Neolithic weapons rare, 6.

Water, fire in, 182.

-- as source of all life, 180.

-- spirits, 207.

"Water of Life", "fire water" as, 181, 182.

Weapons, Celts swore by, 148.

-- demons in, 50.

-- as sacred symbols in Ireland and Japan, 206.

Well, "Beast" (dragon) in, 182.

Wells, Bride (Brigit) and, 188.

-- connection of, with trees, stones, and sky, 180.

-- goddess and, 180.

-- "well of healing" in Underworld, 197.

Well-worship and sacred grove, heaven, &c., 160.

Well-worship, Dingwall Presbytery deals with, 148.

-- Gildas refers to, 176.

-- well as a god, 176-9.

-- trees, standing stones, and, 147.

-- winds and, 174.

-- offerings of gold, &c., 174.

Welsh gods, 203.

Were-animals, Scottish, 190.

-- witches and, 191.

Wheat, cultivation of, 5.

Whistle, the, antiquity of, 31.

Widow-burning, 110.

Wind, fairies come on eddies of, 173.

Wind and water beliefs, 174.

Wind goddess, Scottish, associated with south-west, 173.

Winds, colours of, 169 _et seq._

-- Gaelic names of, in spring, 198.

-- Hebridean wind-stone, 172.

Witches, cat forms of, 196.

-- priestesses and, 147.

-- were-animals and, 191.

Withershins, 172.

Woad, Celtic connection of, with water, amber, &c., 163.

Wolf, goddess as, 154.

-- goddess Morrigan as, 195.

Woodbine as "King of the Woods", 180.

"World Mill", The, metal workers and, 90.

Wren, apple cult of, 204.

-- Druids and, 145.

-- hunting of, 187.

-- the sacred, 186.

-- as king of birds, 186.

Yellow Muilearteach, the, Scottish deity, 196, 197.

Zuyder Zee, formerly a plain, 69.

-- -- disasters of, 69, 70.

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