v. 251

Blemishes, bodily, a ground for putting kings to death, iv. 36 _sqq._; physical, transferred to witches, x. 160 _n._ 1

“Blessers” or sacred kings, iii. 125 _n._

Blessing of maize, game, and fish by medicine-men among the Bororos, viii. 71 _sq._

Blighting effect of illicit love on the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 _sqq._

Blind bull sacrificed at the foundation of a town, vi. 249; sacrificed before an army going to war, vi. 250

—— cat in homoeopathic magic, i. 153

—— Tree, the, i. 147

Blindfolded reapers, vii. 144, 153 _sq._

Blindness, charm to cause, i. 147

—— of Hother, x. 279 _n._ 4

Block, the Yule, x. 247

Blocksberg, dance of the witches on the, ix. 163 _n._ 1; the resort of witches, x. 171; the Mount of the Witches, xi. 74

Blood shed at circumcision and subincision, uses of, i. 92, 94 _sq._; drawn from virgin bride, i. 94; the flow of, arrested by blood-stones, i. 165; sympathetic connexion between wounded person and his shed blood, i. 205; of contracting parties sprinkled on their footprints in making a treaty,