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INDEX
Bolang Mongondo, recapture of the soul in, i. 131; preservation of cut hair, i. 203; ceremony at rice harvest in, ii. 71, 72
Bombay, soul superstition in, i. 127
Bones of animals not broken by savages, ii. 124
Boni, king of, and his courtiers, i. 222, 223
Booandik tribe superstition concerning the blood of women, i. 186
Book of the Dead, i. 312
Bormus, the name given to the lament of the Bithynian reapers, i. 365, 398
Borneo, custom in, regarding infested persons, i. 154
Bouphonia, the, ii. 38-41
Brabant, North, Whitsuntide custom in, i. 88
Brahman soul story, i. 128, 129; sin eaters, ii. 156
Brahmans, temple of the, i. 230; transference of sins by the, ii. 200
Brandy, North American Indian theory about, ii. 87
Brazilian Indians, self-beating by the, ii. 215, 216; treatment of girls at the age of puberty by the, ii. 231, 232
Bresse, May customs in, i. 98; ceremony regarding the last sheaf, i. 408
Brest, fire festival at, ii. 261
Breton peasant and the wind, i. 30
Briançon, May-day in the neighbourhood of, i. 95 ; harvest ceremony at, ii. 11
Bride, a name given to the binder of the last sheaf, i. 345
Brie, May-day custom in, i. 84; harvest custom in, i. 370, 375; burning of mock giant in, ii. 282
Britanny, reaping custom in, i. 335, 336; midsummer fires in, ii. 261
British Columbia, fish ceremony by the Indians of, ii. 121
Bruck, harvest custom in, i. 333, 334
Brüd’s bed in the Highlands, i. 97
Brunnen, Twelfth Night custom at, ii. 182
Brunswick, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 90
Buddhist animism, i. 59
—— Tartar worship, i. 42, 43
Buffalo, belief in the resurrection of the, ii. 123; held sacred by the Todas, ii. 136, 137
—— bull, ii. 19
Bulgarian rain-charm, i. 16; custom at the laying of a foundation stone, i. 144; harvest custom, i. 341
Bull, Dionysus as a, i. 325, 326; ii. 37-44; the corn-spirit as a, ii. 19-24; Osiris and the, ii. 59-61; sacred, ii. 60; as a scapegoat, ii. 200, 201
Burghers, first seed sowing and reaping amongst the, ii. 72; transference of sins by the, ii. 151, 152
Burgimdian kings deposed in times of scarcity, i. 47
Burma, mode of executing princes of the blood in, i. 180; head-washing in, i. 188, 189; mock burial in time of sickness in, ii. 84; ceremony of driving away cholera in, ii. 161; offering of first-fruits in, ii. 374
Burmese and the soul, i. 130
Burnt sacrifices among the Celts, ii. 278-280
Buro Islands, dog’s flesh eaten in the, ii. 87; disease boats, ii. 187
Burying alive, i. 217
Busiris, legend of, i. 400, 401
Butterfly, the Samoans and the, ii. 56
Buzzard, sacrifice of the sacred, ii. 90-92
Byblus, lamentation for the death of Adonis at, i. 280
Calabria, expulsion of witches in, ii. 181
Calcutta, iron-charm used in, i. 176
Calf, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 19-24
Calicut, kings killed at the expiry of twelve years in, i. 224, 225
Californian Indians, their opinion of the dust columns, i. 30
—— sacrifice of the buzzard, ii. 90, 91
Caligula, i. 4
Callander, Beltane fires in, ii. 254, 255
Cambodia, search for inspired man in time of epidemic in, i. 36; kings of fire and water in, i. 53-56; its sacred tree, i. 67; kings of, i. 118; touching the king’s body in, i. 172; man’s head not touched in, i. 189; ceremony at the cutting of the king’s hair in, i. 197; temporary kings of, i. 228; the Stiens of Cambodia and the killing of animals, ii. 115; expulsion of evil spirits, etc. in, ii. 178, 184; seclusion of girls in, ii. 235
Cambridgeshire, harvest custom in, i. 341, 342
Cameroons, the life of a person supposed to be bound up with that of a tree by the, ii. 329
Canadian Indians, detention of the soul amongst the, i. 139; beaver hunting by the, ii. 116, 117
Candlemas Day customs, i. 97 ; ii. 29, 48
