i. 211;

used to imitate rain, i. 256, 257 _sq._; smeared on regalia, i. 363; smeared on king’s throne, i. 365; of sacrificial victim, inspiration by sucking the, i. 381 _sq._; offered to trees, ii. 13, 16, 19, 34, 44, 47, 367; smeared on wood-work of house to appease the tree-spirits, ii. 39; smeared on house as an expiatory rite, ii. 109 _n._ 1; of incestuous persons, blighting effects attributed to the, ii. 110 _sq._; smeared on new fire-boards, ii. 225; smeared on sacred trees, ii. 367; put on doorposts, iii. 15; smeared on person as a purification, iii. 104, 115, 219; of slain, supposed effect of it on the slayer, iii. 169; drawn from bodies of manslayers, iii. 176, 180; tabooed, iii. 239 _sqq._; not eaten, iii. 240 _sq._; soul in the, iii. 240, 241, 247, 250; of game poured out, iii. 241; spilt on ground, covered up, iii. 241, 245, 246; unwillingness to shed, iii. 243, 246 _sq._; received on bodies of kinsfolk, iii. 244 _sq._; drops of, effaced, iii. 245 _sq._; horror of, iii. 245; spilt, used by magicians for evil purposes, iii. 246; of chief sacred, iii. 248; of women, dread of, iii. 250 _sq._; fetish priests allowed to drink fresh blood, iii. 291; of sacrifice splashed on door-posts, house-posts, etc., iv. 97, 175, 176 _n._ 1; remission of sins through the shedding of, v. 299; used in expiation for homicide, v. 299 _n._ 2; not to be shed in certain sacrifices, vi. 222 _n._ 2; of sacrificial horse, use made of, viii. 42; drawn from men as a religious rite, viii. 75, 91 _sq._; of men drunk to acquire their qualities, viii. 148, 150, 151, 152; as a means of communion with a deity, viii. 316; fatigue let out with, ix. 12; of children used to knead a paste, ix. 129; drawn from ears as penance, ix. 292; girls at puberty forbidden to see, x. 46; drawn from women who do not menstruate, x. 81

Blood, bath of ox, iv. 35, 201; bath of bull’s, in the rites of Attis, v. 274 _sqq._

—— of bear drunk, viii. 146

—— of beavers not allowed to fall on ground, viii. 240 _n._ 2

—— of childbirth, supposed dangerous infection of, iii. 152 _sqq._; received on heads of friends or slaves, iii. 245

——, the Day of, in the festival of Attis, v. 268, 285

—— of dragon imparts knowledge of language of birds, viii. 146

——, human, strengthening and fertilizing virtue attributed to, i. 85 _sqq._, 90 _sqq._, 105; offered at grave, i. 90 _sq._, 101; given to sick people, i. 91; used to knit men together, i. 92; used in rain-making ceremonies, i. 256, 257 _sq._, xi. 232 _sq._; offered to the dead, iv. 92 _sq._, 104; libations of, poured on grave of Pelops, iv. 92; mixed with maize and eaten as a blessed food, viii. 91 _sq._

—— of human victims in rain-making ceremonies, iv. 20; smeared on faces of idols, iv. 185; sprinkled on seed, vii. 239, 251; scattered on field, vii. 244, 251

Blood of lamb sprinkled on people, viii. 315

——, menstruous, dread of, x. 76; disastrous effect of seeing, x. 77; deemed fatal to cattle, x. 80; miraculous virtue attributed to, x. 82 _sq._; medicinal application of, x. 98 _n._ 1

—— of pigs in purificatory rites, ii. 107, 108, 109, v. 299 _n._ 2, ix. 262

——, royal, reluctance to spill, ii. 228; not to be shed on the ground, iii. 241 _sqq._

—— of St. John found on St. John’s wort and other plants at Midsummer, xi. 56, 57

—— of sheep poured on image of god as a sin-offering, x. 82

—— of slain men tasted by their slayers, viii. 154 _sqq._

Blood-brotherhood formed by woodman with the tree which he fells, ii. 19 _sq._; between men and animals among the Fans, xi. 201, 226 _n._ 1; between men and animals among the Indians of Honduras, xi. 214, 226 _n._ 1

—— -covenant, iii. 130, viii. 154 _sqq._; by mixture of blood between husband and wife, viii. 69. _See also_ Blood-brotherhood

—— -lickers among the Betsileo, iii. 246

—— -stones thought to arrest the flow of blood, i. 81, 165

Bloodless altars, ix. 307

Bloomfield, Professor Maurice, on the magical nature of Vedic ritual, i. 229

—— River, Queensland, magical effigies on the, i. 62; namesakes of the dead change their names on the, iii. 355 _sq._

Blowing on a fire, forbidden to sacred chiefs, iii. 136, 256; upon knots, as a charm, iii. 302, 304

—— of trumpets in the festival of Attis, v. 268

Blows to drive away ghosts, ix. 260 _sqq._

Blue Spring, the, at Syracuse, v. 213 _n._ 1

Bluk, the bull-frog, i. 292

Blu-u Kayans of Borneo, iii. 104; expiation for unchastity among the, ii. 109 _sq._

Blydeuitzigt, in Cape Colony, ix. 16

Boa-constrictor, purification of man who has killed a, iii. 221 _sq._; need of appeasing the soul of a, viii. 296

Boa-constrictors, kings at death turn into, iv. 84, xi. 212 _n._; souls of dead in, viii. 289 _sq._

Boanerges, “sons of thunder,” i. 266 _n._ 1

Boar, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151; grunting like a wild, a charm against sore feet, ii. 22 _sq._; and Adonis, v. 11, viii. 22 _sq._; Attis killed by a, v. 264; corn-spirit as, vii. 298 _sqq._; the Yule, vii. 300 _sqq._, 302 _sq._ _See also_ Boars

Boar’s fat poured on novices at initiation in the Andaman Islands, viii. 164

—— head mask worn by actor at a sowing festival, vii. 95 _sq._

—— skin, shoes of, worn by a king at inauguration, x. 4

Boars, evil spirits transferred to, ix. 31; familiar spirits of wizards in, xi. 196 _sq._; lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 203, 205; external human souls in, xi. 207

——, wild, hunted in Italy, i. 6; in ancient Greece, i. 6 _n._ 6; not to be called by their proper names, iii. 411, 415; annually sacrificed in Cyprus, viii. 23 _n._ 3; their ravages in the corn, viii. 31 _sqq._; eaten to make eater brave, viii. 140. _See also_ Swine

Boas, Dr. Franz, on the taboos observed by Esqimaux hunters, iii. 210 _sqq._; on the confession of sins, iii. 214; on the masked dances of the Indians of North-Western America, ix. 375 _sq._; on seclusion of Shuswap girls at puberty, x. 53; on customs observed by mourners among the Bella Coola Indians, xi. 174; on initiation into the wolf society of the Nootka Indians, xi. 270 _sq._; on the relation between clans and secret societies, xi. 273 _n._ 1

Boba or Baba, “the Old Woman,” name given to the last sheaf, vii. 144 _sq._, 223

Bocage of Normandy, rule as to the clipping of wool in the, vi. 134 _n._ 3; “catching the quail,” at harvest in the, vii. 295; games of ball in the, ix. 183 _sq._; Eve of Twelfth Night in the, ix. 316 _sq._; weather of the twelve months predicted from the Twelve Days in the, ix. 323; Midsummer fires in the, x. 185; the Yule log in the, x. 252; torchlight processions on Christmas Eve in the, x. 266

Bock, C., on birth-ceremonies in Laos, vii. 8; on the fear of demons in Laos, ix. 97

Bodia or Bodio, a West African pontiff responsible for the fertility of the earth, i. 353; taboos observed by him, iii. 14 _sq._, 23

Bodies, souls transferred to other, iii. 49

—— of the dead, magical uses made of the, vi. 100 _sqq._; guarded against mutilation, vi. 103; thought to be endowed with magical powers, vi. 103, 104 _sq._

Bodmin, in Cornwall, Lord of Misrule at, ii. 319 _n._ 1

Bodos, the, of Assam, mourners shaved among the, iii. 285

Bodroum in Cilicia, ruins of, v. 167

Body-without-soul in a Ligurian story, xi. 107; in a German story, xi. 116 _sq._; in a Breton story, xi. 132 _sq._; in a Basque story, xi. 139

Boedromion, an Attic month, vii. 52, 77, viii. 6 _n._

Boemus, Joannes, on the “carrying out of Death,” iv. 234; on the King of the Bean, ix. 315 _n._

Boeotian festival of the Great Daedala, xi. 77 _n._ 1

—— sacrifice to Hercules, viii. 95 _n._ 2

Bogadjim, in German New Guinea, belief in wind-making at, i. 322; charm to attract fish at, viii. 251

Boghaz-Keui, Hittite capital, excavations of H. Winckler at, v. 125 _n._; situation and remains of, v. 128 _sqq._; the gods of, v. 128 _sqq._; rock-hewn sculptures at, v. 129 _sqq._

Bogle, George, envoy to Tibet, his account of a Tibetan New Year ceremony,