iv. 281, 283

—— or Dionysus, vii. 2. _See_ Dionysus

Bacchylides as to Croesus on the pyre, v. 175 _sq._

Bachofen, J. J., on Roman kings and the Saturnalia, ii. 313 _n._ 1; on the _Nonae Caprotinae_ and the Saturnalia, ii. 314 _n._ 1

Backache at reaping, leaps over the Midsummer bonfire thought to be a preventive of, x. 165, 168, 189, 344 _sq._; set down to witchcraft, x. 343 _n._, 345; at harvest, mugwort a protection against, xi. 59; creeping through a holed stone to prevent backache at harvest, xi. 189

Backbone of Osiris represented by the _ded_ pillar, vi. 108 _sq._

Bacon, Francis, on anointing weapon that caused wound, i. 202

Bad Country, the, in Victoria, ceremonies observed at entering, iii. 109 _sq._

_Badache_, double-axe, Midsummer King of the, x. 194

Badagas, the, of the Neilgherry Hills, their customs as to sowing and reaping the first grain, viii. 55; transfer the sins of the dead to a buffalo calf, ix. 36; their fire-walk, xi. 8 _sq._

Baddeley, Mr. St. Clair, i. 5 _n._ 2

Baden, homoeopathic magic at sowing in, i. 138; St. George’s Day in, ii. 337; Feast of All Souls in, vi. 74; customs as to the last sheaf at harvest in, vii. 283, 292, 298; the Corn-goat at threshing in, vii. 286; Lenten fire-custom in, x. 117; Easter bonfires in, x. 145; Midsummer fires in, x. 167 _sqq._

Badham, Rev. Charles, D.D., his proposed emendation of Euripides, iii. 156 _n._

Badham Court oak, in Gloucestershire, xi. 316

Badi, performer at a tight-rope ceremony in India, ix. 197

_Badnyak_, Yule log, in Servia, x. 259, 263

_Badnyi Dan_, Christmas Eve, in Servia, x. 258, 263

Badonsachen, King of Burma, claims divinity, i. 400

Badumar, in West Africa, ii. 293

Baduwis, an aboriginal race in the mountains of Java, seclusion of their hereditary ruler, iii. 115 _sq._; use no iron in husbandry, iii. 232

Baethgen, F., on goddess ’Hatheh, v. 162 _n._ 2

Baffin Land, the Esquimaux of, i. 113, iii. 32 _n._ 2, 152, 207, 399, viii. 257, ix. 125

Bag, souls of persons deposited in a, iii. 63 _sq._, xi. 142, 153, 155; soul of dying chief caught in a, iv. 199

Baganda, the, of Central Africa, their belief as to the sterilizing influence of barren women, i. 142, ii. 102; their treatment of the afterbirth and navel-string, i. 195 _sq._, xi. 162; spirits of their dead kings preserved in their navel-strings and jawbones, i. 196; their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 _n._ 2; their incarnate human god of the Lake Nyanza, i. 395; their belief in the influence of the sexes on vegetation, ii. 101 _sq._; their customs in regard to twins, ii. 102 _sq._; their fire-drill, ii. 210; their Vestal Virgins, ii. 246; their list of kings, ii. 269; their mode of fertilizing women by means of a wild banana-tree, ii. 318; stabbed the shadows of enemies, iii. 78; their superstition as to shadows, iii. 87; their belief as to women stepping over a man’s weapons, iii. 423; their belief as to the state of the spirits of the dead, iv. 11; their worship of the python, v. 86; rebirth of the dead among the, v. 92 _sq._; their belief in impregnation by the flower of the banana, v. 93; their theory of earthquakes, v. 199; their presentation of infants to the new moon, vi. 144, 145; ceremony observed by the king at new moon, vi. 147; their worship of dead kings, vi. 167 _sqq._; their veneration for the ghosts of dead relations, vi. 191 _n._ 1; their pantheon, vi. 196; human sacrifices offered to prolong the life of their kings, vi. 223 _sqq._; woman’s share in agriculture among the, vii. 118; their ceremony at eating the new beans, viii. 64; significance of stepping over a woman among the, viii. 70 _n._ 1; their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 113; their precaution against the ghosts of the elephants, which they kill, viii. 227 _sq._; dread the ghosts of sheep, viii. 231; propitiate the ghosts of slain buffaloes, viii. 231; treat ceremonially the first fish caught, viii. 252 _sq._; their custom of mutilating dead enemies, viii. 271 _sq._; their transference of plague to a plantain-tree, ix. 4 _sq._; their transference of sickness to effigies, ix. 7; their precautions against the ghosts of suicides and other unfortunates, ix. 17 _sq._; throw sticks or grass on graves or places of execution of certain persons, ix. 18; their worship of the river Nakiza, ix. 27; transfer sickness to animals, ix. 32; human scapegoats among the, ix. 42; children live apart from their parents among the, x. 23 _n._ 2; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 23 _sq._; their superstition as to women who do not menstruate, x. 24; abstain from salt in certain cases, x. 27 _sq._; their dread of menstruous women, x. 80 _sq._ _See also_ Uganda

Baganda fishermen, taboos observed by, iii. 194 _sq._

Bagba, a wind-fetish, i. 327, iii. 5

Bagdad, death of the King of the Jinn reported at, iv. 8

Bageshu (Bagishu), the, of Mount Elgon, in East Africa, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 103, v. 92; seclusion and purification of manslayers among, iii. 174

Bagobos of Mindanao, one of the Philippines, their human sacrifices at sowing, vii. 240; their way of detaining the soul in the body, iii. 31, 315; never utter their own names, iii. 323 _sq._; their theory of earthquakes, v. 200; their custom of hanging and spearing human victims, v. 290 _sq._; their pretence of feeding their agricultural implements at harvest,