Index.
517
Blackbird : in folktale, Ireland, 435
Black duck : phratry and totem of Wiraidjuri tribe, 246
Blaiman, son of Apple, tale of, 172
Blathnath, wife of Curoi, 334, 336
Bleeding, amulet against, Spain, 469 {.plate)
Blindfolding customs : Wales, 275
Blind man's buff, 274-5 5 Wales, 275
Blodeuwedd, tale of, 31 1-2
Blood : in casting lots, Scandinavian temples, 414 ; drawing implies be- trothal, Ireland, 114; revival by, in folktales, India, 503 ; sprinkled on temple walls and people, Scandi- navia, 414, 417, 420
Blue : Anbechtach Glas, 34
Boar, see Pig
Boconnoc : oak in sympathy with king, 324
Bodhb Derg, son of the Daghda, 170
Boghmuin, fostermother of Finn, 428
Bohemia : [see also Jicin ; Lopas ; Nitran ; Pilsen ; Prague ; Slovenes; a7id Vlasim) ; cat buried in corn- field &c., Christmas Eve, 277 ; harvest custom, 276
Bohoet, King, see King Bohoet
Boinne, see Boyne
Bone amulets for teething, Spain, 456, 464-5, 471 [plates)
Bones, human : built into prison of Manawyddan, Gower, 142 ; as sorcerer's sash &c. , Tibet, 3 ; as trumpet, Tibet, 3
Bonfires, see Fire
Books presented to Folk-Lore Society, 2, 9
Boomerang : suggested in Jataka story, 501
Borneo, see Dyaks
Borrisokane : the ' Big Bell Tree,' ()T,
Bower, H. M., The Ceri of Gubbio, 9
Boy Bishop, the, 383
Boyne river : burst from sacred well, 31 ; fish eaten by Irish king, 162 ; fore-arm of Nuada's wife, 31, 45
Bradgate Hall, home of Lady Jane Grey, 323
Bran, the voyager, 144-5, 155- i58-9> 163, 166, 169, 309, 320, 326, 333,
343, 431 Brandenburg, see Liepe Bran wen, daughter of Llyr, tale of, 309 Brauthahn custom, 280-2, 284 Brazil : folktales, 256 ; wood-god
back -footed, 131, 135
Brefney : king in story of shield of Hugh son of Duach, 70
Breg Leith, fairy mound of, 67
Bres, chief of Fomore, 29, 33, 45-6, 324> 326
Bretagne : [see also Redon) ; ballad, 313-4 ; doves and oaks, 327 ; robin, beliefs about, 447
Bridal customs and beliefs, see Mar- riage customs and beliefs
Brigantians : oak coffin, 321
Brigit, Irish goddess, 325-6
Bri-Leith : heath-fruit eaten by Irish king, 162
Bristol : mistletoe carved on tomb, 323 ; string tricks, 353, 356, 367, 373
Bri the wizard, 161
British Central Africa : moa, 48 1
British Columbia : folktale, 133
British Guiana, see Essequibo Indians
Brittany, see Bretagne
Broad Sound, see Kuinmurbura tribe
Broom : maid formed from blossoms of, Wales, 31 1-2
Brosnach river : cresses eaten by Irish king, 162
Brugh na Boinn : in Colloquy with the Ancients, 170 ; in tale of Diarmuid and Grainne, 441
Buan, King, see King Euan
Buckinghamshire, see Woburn
Buddhism : Jatakas, 13-4, 498-501 ; Tibet, 3
Buffalo, Indian : as scapegoat in Dus- serah festival, India, 269, 274
Bukowina, see Huculs
Bulgaria : goat or sheep as marriage gift, 283 ; " The Shades of the Bal- kans," by Miss M. E. Durham, 113
Bull : [see also Cattle) ; head worn in annual marriage of Dionysus, Athens, 379; sacrificed at cutting of mistle- toe, Gauls, 33-4, after holmgang, Iceland, 407-8, and on St Maree's day, Ross-shire, 333 ; shape-shifting into, Iceland, 422 ; white, sacrificed, Ireland, 34
Bullfighters' amulets, Spain, 458-9
Bull-roarer : churinga, Australia, 490
Burial customs and beliefs, see Death and funeral customs and beliefs
Burne, Miss C. S.: Does the Folk- Lore Society exist for the Study of Early Institutions?, 233-5; review by : — Anthropos : Internationale Zeitschrift fiir Vblker-tt- Sprachen- kunde, 256
