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487
Box-tree : sprig used in " New Year's Gifts," Monmouthshire, 86, and for " New Year's water," Pembroke- shire, 198
Bracelets and bangles : Basuto, 242 ; of hands, Jerusalem, 189; Mashona- land, 242
Braemar Saying, by A. Macdonald, 104
Brazil : folktales, 125
Bread : baked on Good Friday never goes bad and good for illness, Mon- mouthshire, 86 ; placed under baby's pillow, Egin, 446
Breadfruit-tree : injured by roasting breadfruit with heart, Jamaica, 454
Breast : omen from, Ireland, 462
Bretagne : folktales, 63-4 ; marriage customs, 2
Briareus, myth of, 282, 287
Bricriu, feast of, 220
Bridal customs and beliefs, see Mar- riage customs and beliefs
British Columbia, see Kwakiutl
British Guiana, see Buck Indians ; Demerara ; and Marinow Indians
Brittany, see Bretagne
Brooke, Rev. Stopford A., The Corp Creagh, 102-3
Broom : reversed, keeps out witch, Sicily, 128 ; sprinkled with salt to make visitor leave, Jamaica, 208 ; unlucky to take from one house to another, Jamaica, 209
Broom-weed gallows used to injure thief, Jamaica, 92
Brown : in amulets, Jerusalem, 191
Brushes carried in magical dance, W. Africa, 158
Brydeth : harvest custom, 195
Brythons, migrations of, 234
Buckhaven : pig's tail on boat causes crew to return, 96
Buck Indians : A Buck Superstition,
343 Buckinghamshire : relative nigres- cence in, 234 Buckle (Mon.) : witchcraft at, 80 Buddha's footprints, emblems in, 333 Buddhism : Dharma worship, Bengal, 223 ; relation of Jainism to, 223 ; roadside shrines, Mongolia and Tibet, 447-8 ; Tibet, 243 Buffalo : • dairy ceremonials, Todas,
i66-8i" Bug : omen from, Jamaica, 455 Bujan, island of, in Russian story, 293
Bulis, in myth of Aegypius, 388
Bulgaria : bee sacrificed for new bee- hive, 441 ; folk-songs, 220
Bull : {see also Cattle) ; bull running, Stamford &c., 199-202 ; on coins, Sardes, 308 : omens from, Jamaica, S9, 453 ; in raid of Queen Meave, 235-8 ; in story of Deirdre, 27 ; sun a bull, Crete, 272 ; as symbol in marriage ceremonies, Basutos, 252-3 ; as symbol of sun, Greeks, 270
Bull pitchers, Stamford, 131, 201
Bumble-bee : omens from, Guernsey, 121
Burao, see Ishhak tribes
Burial customs and beliefs, see Death and funeral customs and beliefs
Burial, mock, Syria. 347-8
Burmah : {see also Chindwin river ; Ganans ; Irrawaddy river ; Katha ; Monywa; Mu valley; czwi^Shwebo); dolls, 243
Burne, Miss C. S.: A Corn Baby?, 185 {plate); Fifth of November Customs, I, 106-7 ; Northumbrian Social Customs, 341-3; reviews by, — Careyand MacCulloch's Guernsey Folk-Lore, 1 19-23 ; Hazlitt's Faiths and Folklore, 477-8
Burning of thread, omen from, Jamaica, 452
Burning of wood, omen from, Candle- mas, Moush, 437
Euro: charm against smallpox, 163
Bushmen : cave paintings, 242 ; class system, 11 1-2; Kidd's 77;*? ^.f^t'«- tial Kafir reviewed, 224-6 ; MS. work on, 204 ; perhaps origin of Thokolosi the poisoner, Basutos, 260
Busiris, King, see King Busiris
Butha-Buthe: Molimo, belief in, Ba- sutos, 257-8; sacred ground at, 249
Butter : {see also Churning customs and beliefs) ; bridegroom's face anointed, Basutos, 252
Buttermilk in dairy ritual, Todas, 169-70
Buzzard, myth of, 389
Cadiz, ancient, see Gades
Cadmus : as servant of Ares, 394,
411; slays Serpent, Thebes, 411-2 ;
on vases, 411 Caeneus, myth of, 387 Caere: hydria from, 393