Index.
539
Avalon, isle of : in romance of
Melusine, 189 Avebury ; in tale, 524 Avebury, Lord : death, 282 ;
obituary, 242-4 Awemba : Gouldsbury and
Sheane's The Great Plateau of
Northern Rhodesia reviewed,
264-5, 267-9 Axes, stone : as amulets, Italy,
67, Spain, 67-8 ; divine, S.
Amer., 60 Ayrshire, see Monkton
Babies, see Children Baboon : as siboko, S. Africa, 169, 172-4 ; tabooed, Pokomo,
459 Babylonia : influence on Greece,
27 ; sickness and death un- natural, 388 Backache : stone seat cures,
Clare, 211 Backwards : to call up Devil,
Oxon, 84 ; to see future
consort, Ontario, 222 Backwaters of the Nile, The, by
A. L. Kitching, reviewed,
264-7 Bacon's Hole : paintings, 38 Badger : demon, Clare, 208 Baganda : death, origin of, 389 Bahurutsi : siboko, 169, 172-4 Bakuena : siboko, 169, 172-4 Bala : hiring fair, 107 Balance Sheet, 13 Balkan Peninsula : (5^^' also
Albania ; Bulgaria ; Greek ;
Moldavia ; Servia ; Turkey-in-
Europe) ; gipsies, 340 Ballydeely, 99 Ballydonohan : tale, 496 Balme ; death customs, 214 ;
tale, 218 Baluba : language, 268 Baluchistan : {see also Makran) ;
folklore, 228-32 ; head mani- pulation, 272 Bamford : gipsy girl buried
alive, 332 Banana : in game, Kiwai Papuans,
288 ; in song, Kiwai Papuans,
299 Banana plant : song in planting,
Kiwai Papuans, 306 Bangala : sham fight, 38S Banks' islands : (see also Mota) ;
death myth, 390 ; future life, 391
Banshees : Clare, 98, 367, 373-4
Bantu : (see also under tribal names) ; languages, 268 ; si- bokism, 131 ; totem-kin break- ing down, 145
Baptism : gipsies, 323-4 : Pied- mont, 213
Bards : Gilyaks, 482-4 ; India,
534
Barking : folk-medicine, 120
Barkinji : class system, 183
Barley : sowing. Piedmont, 216
Barnard Gate : folklore, 74-91
Barrenness, see Birth
Barton-in-Humber : use of church, 133
Bat : in song, Kiwai Papuans, 298
Bathing, 395
Battle traditions : Clare, 503 ; Radnor, no
Beads : (see also Amulets and talismans) ; green, as symbol, Baluchistan, 228 ; ornaments, Pokomo, 466
Beans : in divination, Cvprus, 358
Bear: in saying, Brcconsh., 511; weather sign, Canada, 219
Beast fables, 58-9, 143
Beasts, see Animals
Beating, ceremonial : Courland, 248 ; Fiji, 390
Bee : ' ringing the bees,' Oxon, 88, Warwicksh., 240 ; not sold, Warwicksh., 240 ; in tales, S. Amer., 58 ; ' telling the bees," Ontario, 223, Warwicksh. etc., 240 ; weather sign, Ontario, 220
Beesands : Friday fishing un- lucky, 237 ; Nov. 5, 237
Belbroughton : gipsies, 348
Belief in Immortality an4 the Wor- ship of the Dead, The, by J. G. Frazer, reviewed, 386-92
Bell : in amulets, Spain, 69-72 ; in charm for rain, Baluchistan. 229 ; Glastonbury, 17 ; in rites, Manipur, 430- r, Mende, 129 : in saying, Oxfordsh., 77 ; St. Senan's, 207
Bengal Presidency, see Serampore
Beni Amer : position of women,
199 Beowulf, poem of, 252-4
