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not touch herself during eclipse, Mexico, 203 ; rose, withered, bor- rowed before birth, Malta, 78
P.irthday customs and beliefs : amu- lets given on, China, 114, 295 ; feasts, Malta, 82
Black : assigned to Nadir region of space, Zuiii, 430, and to North, China, 431 ; in body patterns, W. Australia, 327
Black animals, see Cat ; Cock ; Dog ; Moth ; Snake ; and Tortoise
Blackburn : dog grease cures rheuma- tism, 85-6
Blackfoot Indians : future life, beliefs about, 200-1
Blackpool : thyme odour records murder, 179-80
Blantyre (,C. Af.) : ancestor worship, 309-10; folktales, 445
Blenheim Park : May Eve custom,
174
Blessing the Geese, by C J. Tabor, 177
Blood : augury of barrenness, on Lia Fail, 29 ; bleeding stopped by incantations, Bilochs. loi ; human, drawn, drunk, &c. at ceremonies, W. Australia, 348, 356-7, 365, 367, (plate), and used to attach decora- tions, W. Australia, 348 ; of Keogh cures toothache, Ireland, loi ; mingling of, renews friendship, W. Australia, 336 ; shedding, sign of grief, W. Australia, 336 ; sprinkled on house, St. Martin's Eve, Alhlone, 186 ; of tortoise cures jaundice, Malta, 85
Blue : assigned to West region of space, Zufii, 430, and to East, Chinese, 431
Boa or python, see Snake
Boar, see Pig
Bodkin, Uist, 210, 300
Boils, cures for, Jhelum, loi, Lewis,
371 Bologna : Medusa heads, 219 Bonarbridge : witch stones, 2IO, 298
(plate) Bone : human, used in ceremonies,
W. Australia, 348 ; ornaments, W.
Australia, 367 (plate) ; pointing of
the bone, Queensland, 17; used in
blood ceremonies, W. Australia,
323 iplate), 367 Bones, divination, see Divination Bonfires, see Fire
Bonn : Medusa head, 232
Bonwick : harvest custom, 93
Books presented to Folk-Lore Society, 2, 7, 210-1
Boomerangs : W. Australia, 322-3, 325-6, 330» 332-4. 344, 346, 366 (plate)
"Border Minstrelsy" : Henderson's Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border discussed, 147-61
Bosham : ' bonfire boys ' but no Guy, Nov. 5, 90
Botelho (Azores) : in folktale, 133
Bower-bird : in folktales, W. Aus- tralia, 363, 364-5
Box-tree: sprig used in "the gift," St. Briavel's, 6
Boys, see Man
Brabrook, E. W. : The Origin and Development of the Faculty of Imagination, 3, 12-27; review by — Mew's Traditional Aspects of Hell, 200-2
Bracken : K. Charles' oak seen when cut, 141 ; shoots up, St. Mark's Eve, Lincolnshire, 94
Bradwell : funeral customs, 180
Bragar : charm for scrofula &c., 371
Brahmanism : hell, 200-1
Branchidse : votive offerings at, 269
Brandenburg : folk-song, 309
Brazil : bird legend, 234, 239, 241 ; central, separation of species ^not made, 427
Brecknockshire, see Llangorse lake
Brescia : King Desiderius, 46
Bretagne : folktales, 42-3 ; Maclean's The Literature of the Celts, its History and Romance, reviewed, 108-9 ; St. Michael's (Azores) colonised from, 125
Bridal customs and beliefs, see Mar- riage customs and beliefs
Bridges : ghosts laid under,' Oxford, 67
Brims: fishing beliefs, 301, 304
Brittany, see Bretagne
Brons, in Grail romances, 192
Bronze Age, beliefs of, 13-5
Brothers, taboos in connection with, see Taboos
Brush for taking honey, Queensland, 321
Buckinghamshire, see Worminghall
Buddhism : hell, 200-1 ; in kinder- garten, China, 293 ; Jataka, 34-5
Buffalo : cattle in primitive times,
