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Bull : in folk-tale, Durham, 75-6 Bull-roarers: Australia, 95, 126 Bunjogis : folk-tale, 390- 1 Burbung ceremonies, N.S.W. , 485 Burdock : on burry-man, Scotland, 91 Burial customs and beliefs, see Death
and funeral customs and beliefs Burial, mock ; in cure for whooping
cough, Oxfordshire, 21S Burial of Amputated Limbs, by D. H.
Moutray Read and E. B. Pitman,
226 Burial of Suicides at Cross-roads, by
W. Crooke, 88-9 Buried treasure, see Treasure Burma : {see also Asugyi ; and Bas-
sein) ; sex metamorphosis, 212 Burne, Miss C. S. : The Burry-man,
227 ; Reminiscences of Lancashire
and Cheshire when George IV was
King, 203-7 ; Scraps of English
Folklore, 219-22, 348, 48S-90 ;
"Sympathetic" Magic, 232-3 Burning, see Fire Burning of the Property of a Gypsy
at Death, The, by W. Crooke,
353
Burpham : charm against "overlook- ing," 65 ; tallies, 66
Burry-man, The, by A. Lang, 89-90, R. C. Maclagan, 91-2, and Miss C. S. Burne, 227
Burton-on-Trent : love charm, 221
Bury (Lanes) : devil raised and got rid of, 205 ; leases, conditions of, 203 ; pace-eggers, 204, 207 ; rush- bearing, 204 ; simnel cakes, 203
Bushmen : Cagn, 493
Butter, see Churning customs and beliefs
Butterfly : as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 301
Buzau : Easter eggs, 302 {plate)
Byamee, see Baiame
Cairns : conception beliefs, 352
Cakes : " burying," Yorkshire, 349 ; Christmas buns, Cornwall, 488 ; christening, Durham, 74 ; Easter, Roumanians, 296 ; parkin, Lanca- shire, 204; simnel, Lancashire, 203, Shropshire, 203; wedding, Durham, 74 ; Yule, Durham, 74
Calabash seeds : planting customs. Lower Congo, 311
Calcutta: scapegoat, 212 ; teeth flung into Ganges, 212
Calf : charm against debility, Norway, 323 ; skin in laying giant, Norway,
Cambridge : Trinity College practices,
78 . .
Cambridgeshire, see Cambridge ; and
Whittlesey
Camellia-tree ; in folk-tale, Japan, 252
Camelot : in Arthur romances, 279, 294
Campanula : as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 301
Camphor-tree : ghost lives in, Japan, 251
Camwood powder : used to arouse fetish. Upper Congo, 313
Canada : {see also Labrador ; and Vancouver); folk-song, 119
Cancer, cure for, Cornwall, 488
Candleberry, see Wax-myrtle
Candlemas Day : Devil pulls down Christmas holly, Worcestershire, 343 ; weather prognostics, Worces- tershire, 345
Candles: bayberry, U.S.A., 499; three, cause quarrel, Worcester- shire, 346
Candles Burnt on Christmas Night for Luck, by C. Drake, 499
Canna plant : game with seeds, Lower Congo, 459-60
Cannibalism : in folk-tales, Eskimo, 378 ; as origin of firstborn offer- ing, 382 ; traces. Lower Congo,
474-5 Cape Chatham : myth of White-topped
Rocks, 341 Carling Sunday : Durham, 74 Carp : in folk-tale, Japan, 250 Carpentaria, Gulf of: group marriage,
351 Carpenter : in folk-tale, Swahili, 450-
4 ; septs, Fiji, 253 Caryota sobolifera : cutting &c. angers
Biliku, Andamans, 263. 269 Cassava : in communion rite. Lower
Congo, 57 ; eating tabued. Lower
Congo, 309 Casurina tree : in folk-tale, Swahili,
451. 453 Cat : {see also Civet cat) ; black, as
spirit, W^orcestershire, 348 ; May
kittens unlucky, Cornwall, 4S8 ;
omen from, Worcestershire, 344 Catamenia : meat not salted during,
348
