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543
sprinkled on bridal pair, Pales- tine, 281, 293, and on new house, Palestine, 290
Blood feud : relatives-in-law not concerned, Bedu, 274-5
Blood-letting : in folk-medicine, India, 319
Bluebeard : Gilles de Rais, 137
Blue jay : omens from, Panjab, 216
Blythe river, 27, 29
Boar, see Pig
Boat : Thor and St Olaf in, 76
Bodlas : charms, 331
Bohercrochaun : legend, 485
Bohernamish : legend, 182 ; mean- ing, 182
Bohuslan, see Backa
Boils : cures for, India, 84, 86, 317, 320-1, 327
Bologna : votive axe, 67 (plate)
Bones : as amulet, Suffolk, 7, Yorks, 7 ; of dead used as spatu- lae etc., Trobriands, 534
Bonfires, see Fire
Bongas, supernatural beings, India, 125
Book of Ballymote, 444
Books presented to Folk-Lore Society, 10, 266
Boots, see Shoes
Borrowing : in witchcraft, 164
Bow and arrow : as musical instru- ment. Abbot's Bromley, 39-40
Boyne river : monster, 479
Bracelets : jaw bones as, Trobri- ands etc., 534
Bradwell : descent of people, 37
Brain diseases : cure for, India, 322
Bran, Finn's dog, 184, 231
Bran, voyage of, 230-1
Brandon : amulets, 7
Brazil : thunderbolts, 60
Bread : in folk-medicine, India, 85, 315. 320
Bread-fruit tree : withered by glance, Samoa, 152
Breathing : in folk-medicine, Pan- jab, 316, 320, 324
Brendan legends, 404, 407-8, 484
Bride Wager type of folk-tales, 139
Brigit, the goddess, 403-4, 439
British Columbia : dangerous to tell name, 156
British East Africa, see Aberdare Range ; Akamba ; Akikuyu ; An- yanga ; Athi river ; Mount Kenya
British folklore, collection of, 15-6, 18-41, 101-2
Broadsheets, Flanders, 527-9
Broadwood, Miss L. : Locality and Variants of Carol Wanted, 106
Brock the gnome, 70
Bromley Hurst, 27
Bronach the hag, 187-8
Bronte, Apollo's horse, 66
Bronze Age : culture of, 114; sym- bolic axes, 68-9 (plate)
Brooksbank, Rev. J. H. : exhibit, 6
Brooms : birch-broom custom, Surrey, 388 ; on Garland Day, Castleton, 21
Brown, F. M. ; Scraps of English Folklore, 224-7
Brownies : India, 125
Brugh : monster, 479
Brussels : exhibits from, 131
Buckinghamshire, see Long Cren- don ; Slough
Buffalo : in folk-tales, Africa, 209- 10, 363, 487-8, 495, 500-1, Ar- menia, 366 ; milk drunk by snake, Panjab, 216
Bull : (see also Minotaur) ; feasts on, Crete, 136-7 ; in folk-tales, Africa, 212-3 > ghostly, Clare, 480 ; god stands on, 63 (plate) ; head as symbol, Mycenae and Crete, 64, 136 ; in saint's legend,
185
Bull-ring, Crete, 145
Bunjil, deity, Australia, 521
Bunratty : banshee, 189 ; corpse- lights, 340 ; Dalcassians, 181 ; giant fish, 480 ; place-names, 185 ; spectre dog, 483 ; supernatural phenomena, 339
Burial customs and beliefs, see Death and funeral customs and beliefs
Burial of Amputated Limbs, by C. S. Burne, 105, and A. R. Wright, 387
Burma : wer-tiger, 371
Burne, Miss C. S. : Burial of Amputated Limbs, 105 ; exhibits, 6, 265 ; Occult Povk'ers of Heal- ing in the Panjab, 313-34; The Value of European Folklore in the History of Culture, 5, 14-41 ; reviews by, — Trevelyan's Folk- lore and Folk-stories of Wales, 117-21 ; May lam's The Hooden Horse, 246-9 ; Knowlson's The
