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bill; Lapwing; Magpie; Nightin- gale ; Owl ; Raven ; Sparrow ; Swallow ; Swan) ; evil spirit as, Waterford, 117; giant, Water- ford, 239-40 ; May, in saying, N.E. Scot., 351 ; summoned by trumpet, Waterford, 239-40 ; white, in tales, 326
Birse : communing with dead, 346-7 ; hidden treasure, 342
Birth customs and beliefs : {see also Amulets and talismans ; Baptism ; Tabus ; Twins) ; an- cestors cause fertility, Africa, 313 ; barrenness, cured by hook- swinging, India, 153-5, 160, 178, prayer against, India, 170 ; charms, Mayo, 341, Scot, etc., 385; 'churching,' Cambs, 365; crying of newly born shows cleverness, Kincardinesh., 349 ; fairies powerful at childbirth. Mayo, 340 ; kneeling position during childbirth, 264 ; lucky person, Aberdeensh., 348; man's clothing protective at child- birth, Ireland, 341, Scot., 384-5 ; May unlucky, Sussex, 369 ; men absent at childbirth, 383-5 ; Nigeria, 405 - 6 ; premature births, beliefs about, Kin- cardinesh., 349; soul enters mother's temples, Siberia, 50
Bismarck archipelago, see New Britain
Bison, 93
Bithynia : tale, 123
Biyars : bury old year, 59
Black : in amulets, India etc., 207 ; animals, see Cat, Hen ; edged notepaper unlucky, N.E. Scot., 350 ; pins unlucky, Lon- don, 371 ; stones, see Stones
Blackhead : grows out of plan- tain, Ireland, 258
Blacksmith : hereditary operator for hook-swinging, India, 153 ; patron saint, 293-4
Blessing : averts evil, Mayo, 328,
Blindness, see Eyes
Blood: amulet for, Spain, 212 {pi.) ; stopped by toad. Pied- mont, 278 ; in Zilr ceremony, Egj-pt, 303, 305, 316-7, 319
Blue : in sacred knots and gar- ments, Jews, 258
Boat : in festivals, Siberia, 47 ; of
stolen wood, 259 Bob-apple Day, see St. Clement's
Day Bodb, goddess of battle, 90, no,
121, 333 Bohola : tale, 325, 331 Boloki : tales, 141 Bomba\' : Holi, 57, 72-3 Bom.bay Presidency, see Belgaum ;
Bhils ; Bombay ; Kanara ; Kar-
natak ; Karwar ; Khandesh ;
Pavras ; Poona ; Raigarh Bones ; as amulet, Kent, 367 Bonfires, see Fire Boningale : November customs,
292 Books, see Library Boot, see Shoe Borneo : omen, 76 Boroughbridge : fair^ 377 Borrowing : unlucky, Piedmont,
278 Botriphnie : customs, 343 Bouches du Rhone, see Aries Bracken : as Roval Fern, Ireland,
258 Bramble : in folk-medicine, Jersey,
250 Bran : dangerous, Morocco, 504 Bran, voyage of, 484 Brand Committee, 8 Brandenburgh : cure for swine, 66 Brantford : nursery rhyme, 387 Bread : omen from, Jersey, 246 ;
sacred, Morocco, 504 Brer Rabbit t>npe of folk-tales, 138 Bretagne : death carts and boats,
388 Bride Wager type of folk-tales, 465 Brimstone, see Sulphur " Bringing in the Fly," by P.
Manning, 198-205 British Columbia : {see also Thomp- son River Indians) ; tales, 494 Brittany, see Bretagne Broom : in charms, Nigeria, 405 Broom plant : in folk-medicine,
Jersey, 250 Brough-u-StainmOre : Epiphany
Eve procession, 373 Brownies: Jersey, 245; Swiss, 274 Bruises : cure for, Jersey, 249 Bubbling Wells in Somerset, by
J. B. Partridge, 373 Buchan : sa>-ing, 351; weather
omen, 352
