Index.
511
Badhu, goddess, India, 154
Baganda : ancestral spirits, 312 ; feasts for dead, 312-3; historical traditions, 428-56 ; spirit pos- session, 312-3
Bagpipes : Mayo, 339 ; White Kuthenians, 99
Bahima, 435-6, 441
Bahr-el-Ghazal : casting out devils, 309
Baikal Lake, see Buriats
Baisdkh month : divination, India, 76-7 ; New Year begins, 55
Bakongo, 455
Balaghat : Holi, 60, 68
Balance Sheet, 3, n
Balijas : miracle, 493
Balkan Peninsula, see Kutzo X'lachs ; Macedonia ; Rou- mania ; Serbia ; Thrace
Ballachy : tales, 324, 332
Ballads, see Folk-songs
Ballyshannon : nursery rhymes, 386
Baluba, 448-9, 450
Balunda, 455
Banffshire, see Botriphnie ; Buchan ; Kirkmichael ; Tom- intoul
Bankura : hook-swinging, 172, 182
Bannock : in marchen, Aber- deensh., 353-4
Banshees : Mayo, 334-7 ; Scot- land, 84-91
Bantu, see under tiames of tribes
Baobab-tree ; haunted by devils, Pemba, 395
Baptism : after dark makes ghosts visible, Kaig, 349 ; omen at, Jersey, 248 ; un- lucky to cover face before, Jersey, 248
Barking deer : in tales, Assam,
489. 495-6
Barnacle tree, 266
Baroda : rites of tiger god, 187
Barrenness, see Birth
Basevi, \V. H. F. : Unberufen : Touching Wood, 380-1
Bashilele, 444, 455
Bathing : tabu in, Nigeria, 405
Bathurst is. : customs and in- stitutions, 505-8
Bavaria : amulet, 210
Beads and Knots, by M. Gaster, 254-8
Bear : festival, Siberia, 47 ; in
tales, Modocs, 143 ; venerated, Siberia, 48
Beard : Hide of Beardless One, Persia, 73-4
Beasts, see Animals
Beating, ceremonial : Morocco, 502
Beawar : procession, Holi, 72
Bechuana, 457-8
Bee : in rhyme, Sussex, 369 ; in tale, Assam, 491-2
Beer, see Ale
Beerbhoom : human sacrifice for rain, 189
Beetle : to kill causes rain, Cambs, 366
Belgaum : hook-swinging, 170, 181
Bell : abbey, foils Devil's cast, Glos., 375 ; church, rang all night, Hallowe'en, England, 286 ; pancake, Yorks, 375 ; sounding as clock strikes un- lucky, Piedmont, 278
Bellary : hook-swinging, 164-5
Bengal Presidency : {see also As- sam ; Bankura ; Beerbhoom ; Bhagots ; Chota Nagpur ; Hooghly ; Malda ; Midnapur ; Orissa ; Santals ; Sarenga ; Tarakeswar ; Tharus) ; bon- fires, Holi, 57, 63, 75 ; hook- swinging, 172-3, 181
Benin : human sacrifice for rain, 191
Bennion, E. F. : The Nightingale an lU-Omened Bird, 372
Berkhamstead Common : hidden treasure, 342-3
Betrothal, see Courting
Bhadra Kali, deity, India, 168
Bhagavathi, deity, India, 167
Bhagots : mock sacrifice for rain, 190-1
Bhils : Holi, 57, 65, 71 ; marriage custom, 71, 8r
Bible : knots in, 256-7
Bibliography : for 1908, 7 ; of morris dance, 393
Bikenge, 455
Bilston : souling rhyme, 288-9
Birch-tree : in charm, Suffolk, 365 ; in songs. White Kuth- enians, 225-6
Birds : (see also Crow ; Cuckoo ; Dabchick ; Dove ; Duck ; Eagle ; Fowls ; Goose ; Horn-
