INDEX
387
Baffin Land, expulsion of evil by the Eskimo of, ii. 165
Bagota, restrictions on the heir to the throne in, ii. 225
Balder killed by the mistletoe, ii. 244 sq.; the oak, ii. 295; life of, in the
mistletoe, ii. 359-362
Balder’s bale-fires, ii. 289 sq.
Bali, mice and the - rice fields of the island of, ii. 131; periodic expulsion of devils, ii. 174, 175; custom at a birth, ii. 329
Balquhidder, harvest custom in, i. 344
Banjar kings held responsible for the weather, i. 46, 47
Banks Islanders, the tamaniu of the, ii. 331, 332
Baranton, fountain of, i. 15
Barcelona, Mid-Lent custom in, i. 262
Bari tribe, rain kings of the, i. 52, 53
Barotse, the chief a demigod in, i. 46
Barren women’s superstition regarding the apple-tree, i. 73
Bassam, Great, sacrifice of oxen at, ii. 41, 42; ceremony of driving out the evil spirit, ii. 161, 162
Basutos, the, and the reflection-soul, i. 145; cannibalism by the, ii. 89; offerings of first-fruits, ii. 373
Bat, the, ii. 334-337
Battambang, rain-charm in, i. 19
Battas, the, fighting the wind, i. 28, 29; refuse to fell trees, i. 64, 65; soul superstition, i. 124, 125, 135, 136; soul straying, i. 160; ceremony of making the curse to fly away by the, ii. 150, 151; totemism amongst the, ii. 340, 341; belief in plurality of souls, ii. 341
Bavaria, May custom in, i. 84 ; Whitsuntide representative of the tree-spirit in, i. 242; harvest custom in, i. 342; ii. 27, 28; cure for fever, ii. 153; Easter bonfires in, ii. 254; mid-summer bonfires in, ii. 278
Bear, Shrovetide, i. 254, 255; sacrifice of the, ii. 99-108; ceremony at killing a, ii. 111-113, 115; ceremony before a bear-hunt, ii. 112, 113
Bears, dead, treated with respect, ii. 111-113
Beasts, divine, held responsible for the course of nature, i. 48
Beating as a ceremonial purification, ii. 213-217, 232-234
Beauce, straw man in, ii. 40
Beavers, superstition about killing, ii, 116
Bechuanaland, rain-charm in, i. 18; sun superstition in, i. 23; hack-thorn held sacred in, i. 69; purification after travel, i. 157; crocodile superstition in, ii. 55, 56; transference of ills in, ii. 149
Bedouins, pursuing the wind, i. 29
Belfast, harvest custom at, i. 336, 337
Belgium, procession with wicker giant in, ii. 281
Belli-Paaro, ceremony of, in Quoja, ii. 347, 348
Beltane fires, ii. 254-258
Bengal, Gardens of Adonis in, i. 288, 289
Bernkastel, reaping custom in, ii. 15
Berry, belief regarding the birth of the corn-spirit in, ii. 23; harvest custom, ii. 26
Bhagats, mock human sacrifices by the, i. 252, 253
Bhotan, man worshippers in, i. 42
Biajas of Borneo, expulsion of diseases to sea by the, ii. 192
Bidasari, ii. 325 sq.
Bilaspur, custom at, on the death of a Rajah, i. 232
Birch-tree dressed in women’s clothes in Russia at Whitsuntide, i. 77
Births, trees planted at, ii. 229, 230
Bison, resurrection of the, ii. 122, 123
Bithynia, lament by the reapers in, i. 365
Black Lake, i. 15
Blankenfelde, harvest custom in, i. 370
Bleeding trees, i. 61
Blekinge, midsummer ceremonies in, i. 292
Blood, the soul thought to be in the, i. 178, 179; not eaten, ib.; royal blood not spilt upon the ground, i. 179-183; ill effect of seeing, i. 185, 186; dread of contact with, i. 185-187; primitive dread of menstruous, ii. 238-241
Blood-drinking, inspiration by, i. 34, 35
Boba, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 340, 341
Boeotians of Plataea, festival of the, i. 100-103
Boeroe, ceremony at the rice harvest in, ii. 71
Bohemian midsummer custom, i. 79; ii. 259; Mid-Lent custom, i. 82; Whit Monday custom, i. 91, 244-247; ceremony of carrying out Death, i. 258-260; superstition regarding death, i. 260; ceremony of bringing back summer, i. 263; harvest custom, i. 340; white mice spared in Bohemia, ii. 131, 132; superstition held by poachers in Bohemia, ii. 288
Bohmer Wald Mountains, custom of the reapers in the, ii. 15
