viii. 124

Baharutsis, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, their worship of ancestors, vi. 179

Bahaus. _See_ Kayans

Bahima of Central Africa, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 75; custom of herdsmen at watering their cattle among the, iii. 183 _n._; names of their dead kings not mentioned, iii. 375; their belief as to dead kings and chiefs, v. 83 _n._ 1; their worship of the dead, vi. 190 _sq._; their belief in a supreme god Lugaba, vi. 190; their belief in transmigration, viii. 288; believe that at death their kings turn into lions, and their queens into leopards, viii. 288; their transference of abscesses, ix. 6; their use of scapegoats to cure disease among their cattle, ix. 32; their dread of menstruous women, x. 80

—— of Kiziba, vi. 173

—— of the Uganda Protectorate, ix. 6, 32

Bahnars of Cochin-China, their recall of lost souls, iii. 52, 58 _sq._

Bahr-el-Ghazal province, the Golos of the, i. 318; ceremony of the new fire in the, x. 134 _sq._

Baiga, aboriginal priest in Mirzapur, ix. 27

Baigas, Dravidian tribe of India, their objection to agriculture, v. 89

Bailey, Mabel, on the May Queen, ii. 88 _n._ 1

Bailly, J. S., French astronomer, on the Arctic origin of the rites of Adonis, v. 229

Bairu, the, of Kiziba, vi. 173

Baisâkh, Indian month (April), iv. 265

Bakairi, the, of Brazil, call bull-roarers “thunder and lightning,” xi. 231 _sq._

Bakara, a village of Sumatra, i. 398, 399

Baker, F. B., on relic of tree-worship at Magnesia, i. 386 _n._ 2

Bakers, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 _sq._, 205

Baking, continence observed at, iii. 201

—— -forks, witches ride on, xi. 73, 74

Bakongs, the, of Borneo, associate the souls of the dead with bear-cats and other animals, viii. 294

Baku, on the Caspian, perpetual fires at, ii. 256, v. 192

Bakuba or Bushongo of the Congo, rule as to persons of royal blood among the, x. 4. _See_ Bushongo

Bakundu of the Cameroons, burial custom of the, viii. 99

Balabulan, a person of the Batta Trinity, ix. 88 _n._ 1

Bald-headed widow, transference of fever to a, ix. 38

Balder, the Norse god, and his lame foal, iii. 305 _n._ 1; his body burnt, x. 102; worshipped in Norway, x. 104; camomile sacred to, xi. 63; burnt at Midsummer, xi. 87; Midsummer sacred to, xi. 87; a tree-spirit or deity of vegetation, xi. 88 _sq._; his invulnerability, xi. 94; why Balder was thought to shine, xi. 293; perhaps a real man deified, xi. 314 _sq._

—— and the mistletoe, x. 101 _sq._, xi. 76 _sqq._, 302; interpreted as a mistletoe-bearing oak, xi. 93 _sq._; his life or death in the mistletoe, xi. 279, 283

——, the myth of, x. 101 _sqq._; reproduced in the Midsummer festival of Scandinavia, xi. 87; perhaps dramatized in ritual, xi. 88; Indian parallel to, xi. 280; African parallels to, xi. 312 _sqq._

Balder’s Balefires, name formerly given to Midsummer bonfires in Sweden, x. 172, xi. 87

—— Grove, x. 104, xi. 315

_Balders-brâ_, Balder’s eyelashes, a name for camomile, xi. 63

Baldness a supposed effect of breaking a taboo, iii. 140

Bâle, statuette of the Mexican god Xipe at, ix. 291 _n._ 1; Lenten fire-custom in the canton of, x. 119

Balefires, Balder’s, at Midsummer in Sweden, x. 172

Bali, inspired mediums in, i. 378 _sq._; special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402 _n._; the rice personified as husband and wife in, vii. 201 _sqq._; observation of the Pleiades in, vii. 314 _sq._; propitiation of mice to induce them to spare the fields in, viii. 278; belief in demons in, ix. 86; periodical expulsion of demons in, ix. 140; filing of teeth in, x. 68 _n._ 2; birth-trees in, xi. 164

Balinese, their conduct in an earthquake, v. 198

Balkan Peninsula, the Slavs of the, ii. 237, 241; need-fire in the, x. 281

Ball, Valentine, on hook-swinging, iv. 279

Ball, game of, played as a rite, viii. 76, 79; played as a magical ceremony, ix. 179 _sq._; in Normandy, ix. 183 _sq._; played to determine the King of Summer, x. 195

—— -players, homœopathic charms employed by, i. 144, 155

Balli Atap, the God of the Roof, among the Kenyahs, ii. 385

Ballinasloe, in County Galway, Candlemas custom at, ii. 95 _n._

Balls, gold and silver, to imitate the sun and moon, ii. 63

Ballymagauran, in County Cavan, ancient idol near, iv. 183

Ballymote, the Book of, iv. 100

Ballyvadlea, in Tipperary, woman burnt as a witch at, x. 323 _sq._

Balnagown Loch, in Lismore, witch-hare at, x. 316

_Baloi_, mythical beings of the Basutos, i. 177; witches and wizards, vi. 104

_Balolo_, a sea-slug, ix. 141. _See also_ Palolo veridis

Balong of the Cameroons, their external souls in animals, xi. 203

Balquhidder, in Perthshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 157; hill of the fires at, x. 149; Hallowe’en bonfires at, x. 232

Balsam plants, wild, as representatives of the harvest goddess, vii. 207

_Balsamorrhiza sagittata, Nutt._, the sunflower root, superstitions of Thompson Indians concerning the, viii. 81

Balthasar, one of the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 _sqq._

Balum, a mythical being of German New Guinea, iii. 306

_Balum_, spirits, vii. 104, ix. 83, xi. 242

Balwe in Westphalia, Burying the Carnival at, iv. 232

Bâm-Margi, Hindoo sect, their use of magical images, i. 65

Bambaras of the Niger, their sacred trees, ii. 42

Bamboo-rat sacrificed for riddance of evils, ix. 208 _sq._

Bampton-in-the-Bush in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62

Banana, women impregnated by the flower of the, v. 93; shoots beaten to make them grow, ix. 264

—— -tree, supposed to fertilize barren women, ii. 318; child’s hair deposited on a, iii. 276; afterbirth of child buried under a, xi. 162, 163, 164

—— -trees, fruit-bearing, hair deposited under, iii. 286

Bananas, homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 142; sown by young children, vii. 115; cultivated by women, vii. 115, 118; cultivated in South America, vii. 120, 121; cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123; cultivated in New Guinea, vii. 123; soul of dead man in, viii. 298; mode of fertilizing, ix. 264; the cause of human mortality, ix. 303

Banars of Cambodia, their prayers for the crops, viii. 33

Bancroft, H. H., on the external souls of the Zapotecs, xi. 212

Bandages to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 32, 71

Bandiagara, Mount, in Nigeria, iii. 124

Bandicoot in rain-making, i. 288

Bangala, the, of the Upper Congo, continence observed by fishers and hunters among, iii. 195 _sq._; names of fishermen not mentioned among, iii. 330 _sq._; rebirth of dead among, v. 92; women’s share in agriculture among, vii. 119. _See also_ Boloki

Bangalas of Angola, elective chieftainship among the, ii. 293

Bangerang, an Australian tribe, iii. 321

Bangkok, ix. 150; human foundation sacrifices at, iii. 90

Bangweolo, Lake, custom as to sowing on the islands of, vii. 115

Banished prince, charm to restore a, i. 145

Banishment of homicide, iv. 69 _sq._; of evil spirits, ix. 86

Banivas of the Orinoco, their scourging of girls at puberty, x. 66 _sqq._

Banjars in West Africa punish their king for drought or excessive rain, i. 353

Banks’ Islanders, their ways of making sunshine, i. 314; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313; their story of the origin of death, ix. 304

Banks’ Islands, magical stones in the, i. 164; supernatural power of chiefs in the, i. 338; ghosts in stones in the, iii. 80; Vanua Lava in the, iii. 85; names of relations by marriage tabooed in the, iii. 344 _sq._; burial of women who have died in childbed in the, viii. 97 _sq._; fatigue transferred to stones, sticks, or leaves in the, ix. 9

Banksia, used as fuel by Australian aborigines, ii. 257

Banmanas of Senegambia, their custom at the death of an infant, ix. 261 _sq._

Banna, a tribe accustomed to strangle their first-born children, iv. 181 _sq._

Banner, Macleod’s Fairy, i. 368

Banquets in honour of the spirits of disease, ix. 119

Bantiks of Celebes, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 _n._ 1

Banting in Sarawak, rules observed by women during absence of warriors at,