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Black Art, sec Magic ; and Witchcraft
Blackberry: Devil spoils, Oct. Ii, Worcestershire, 343 ; as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 301
Blackburne, Mrs. G. M. I. : Scraps of English Folklore, 488
Bolster gains supernatural power by age, China, 519
Blacksmith : no charge for mending hoe, Lower Congo, 311; forge sacred, Lower Congo, 31 1 ; position, causes of, 370
Blackwood river : folklore, 340-2
Blajini, in Slav legends, 297
Blantyre : ogre, 448
Bleheris the W^elshman, 502
Blessings, see Salutations
Blood : bleeding a sign that killed by fetish, Lower Congo, 475 ; in Easter-egg legends, Roumanians, 297-8 ; in hunting rite. Lower Congo, i8i-2; in leechcraft, 513, Algiers, 209, Assam, 393 ; poured over fetishes &c.. Lower Congo, 480 ; superstitions and practices relating to, 512-3
Blood -brotherhood ; Lower Congo, 37-8
Blue : associated with hiild7-e-ioV^, Norway, 326, 331-3
Bluebeard type of folktales, 37S
Boar, see Pig
Bobangi : fetish figures, 312
Bobs, see Giants
Bodkin : in folk-tale, Assam, 420
Bondei : as tribal name, 433-4
Bo tribe, Andamans, 258-60
Bohemia: '• trade " charms, 3
Bolobo : exhibits from, 2, 312-3 {plate) ; Fetish Figure from Bolobo, Upper Congo, by Rev. A. E. Scrivener, 312-3 (plate) ; game, 460
Bolobo, name of Deity, Upper Congo,
57 Bolsterstone : Feast, Holy Thursday,
349 Bombay Presidency, see Salsette Bones : of chief preserved, Assam,
137 ; supernatural powers of, China,
519-20 Bonfires, see Fire Books presented to Folk- Lore Society,
2, 7, 386-7 ^ Borneo, see Kaj-ans ; Sarawak ; and
Tidong dialects Borrowing : customs, Lower Congo,
33
Bors, King, see King Bors
Bors, knight of K. Arthur, 278, 282, 284-S, 291, 293-4
Box-tree : sprigs cast into grave, Westmoreland, 223
Bracelet : ordeal by. Lower Congo, 188
Bramble-berry, see Blackberry
Bread : [see also Yiosi, sacred) ; buried in cure for whooping cough, Oxford- shire, 218; laid in cradle of new- born, Norway, 320 ; pieces of, as Easter-egg patterns, Roumanians, 302-3 [plates)
Brendan, St., see St Brendan
Brer Rabbit and Tar-baby, parallels to, 209-11
Bretagne : amulets, 227-8
Brewing : charms used in, Norway, 322
Bridal customs and beliefs, see Mar- riage customs and beliefs
Bride Wager type of folk-tales, 404-8
Bridget, St., see St Bridget
BridHngton : German band brings rain, 348
Brittany, see Bretagne
Broadwood, Miss L. E. : review by, — Carey's A Link with the Past (" Souvenir A'ormand"), 1 16-9
Brooch : gift breaks love, Worcester- shire, 345
Broom : feared by malevolent defunct, China, 519 ; supernatural power by age, China, 519
Broom plant : unlucky in May, Wor- cestershire, 343
Brough Hill: fair, 75; B. H. weather,
Broughton : turf sinks on murderer's
grave, 220 Brown, A. R. : The Religion of the
Andaman Islanders, 130, 257-71 Buckie : burry-man, 227 Buddhism : jatakas, 438 ; original
Panchatantra not Buddhist, 506 Buffalo : in dreams, India, 140, 337 ;
in folk-tale, Swahili, 443 ; horn,
Lunda, 3 ; omens from, India, 140 Building customs and beliefs : lock of
hair beneath main house post,
Assam, 133-4 Bukowina : (see also Roumanians) ;
decoration of Easter eggs, 299 Bulgaria, see Roumanians Bull : amulets, 3 Bull-frog, see Frog
