i. 72;

chastity and fasting of women during absence of warriors in the, i. 131; treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 186; saturnalia at the marriage of the Sun and Earth in the, ii. 99; recovery of lost souls in the, iii. 67; souls as shadows in the, iii. 78; fatigue transferred to stones in the, ix. 8 _sq._; sickness expelled in a boat from the, ix. 187

Babaruda, girl as rain-maker in Roumania, i. 273

Babine Lake in British Columbia, x. 47

Babites, a Persian sect, their divine head, i. 402

Baboons, their depredations on crops, viii. 32; sent by evil spirits, ix. 110 _sq._

Baby, effigy of, used to fertilize women, ix. 245, 249

Babylon, magical images in ancient, i. 66 _sq._; theocratic despotism of ancient, i. 218; sanctuary of Bel at, ii. 129 _sq._; festival of Zagmuk at, iv. 110, 113, 115 _sqq._; festival of the Sacaea at, iv. 113 _sqq._, ix. 354 _sqq._; early kings of, worshipped as gods, v. 15; worship of Mylitta at, v. 36; religious prostitution at, v. 58; human wives of Marduk at, v. 71; sanctuary of Serapis at, vi. 119 _n._

Babylonia, worship of Tammuz in, v. 6 _sqq._; the moon-god took precedence of the sun-god in ancient, vi. 138 _sq._; belief in demons in ancient, ix. 102 _sq._; the star-gazers of, ix. 326; conquered by Assyria, ix. 356; the feast of Purim in, ix. 393

Babylonian calendar, ix. 398 _n._ 2

—— Genesis, ix. 410

—— gods, mortality of the, iv. 5 _sq._

—— hymns to Tammuz, v. 9

—— kings, divinity of the early, i. 417

—— legend of creation, iv. 105 _sq._, 110

—— myth of Marduk and Tiamat, iv. 105 _sq._, 107 _sq._

Babylonian witches and wizards, their use of knotted cords, iii. 302

Bacchanalia, Purim a Jewish, ix. 363

Bacchanals of Thrace chew ivy, i. 384; tore Pentheus in pieces, vi. 98, vii. 24, 25; wore horns, vii. 17

Bacchic frenzy, iv. 164; orgies suppressed by Roman Government, v. 301 _n._ 2

Bacchus, his legendary connexion with the Athenian festival of swinging,