vii. 138;

their custom at Christmas, ix. 270; Twelfth Day among, ix. 331

Bohemian belief that serpents get their poison annually on St. George’s Day, ii. 344 _n._ 4; cures for fever, ix. 49, 51, 55 _sq._, 58, 59, 63; remedy for jaundice, ix. 52

—— charm to make fruit-trees bear, i. 141

—— custom of “Shooting the Witches” on St. Sylvester’s Day, ix. 164

—— love-charms on St. George’s Day, ii. 345 _sq._

—— poachers, their use of vervain, xi. 62; their use of seeds of fir-cones, xi. 64

—— story of the external soul, xi. 110

—— superstition as to understanding the language of animals, viii. 146

Bohemians, their precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night, ii. 55

Bohlingen, in Baden, the last sheaf called the Oats-stallion at, vii. 292; the last sheaf called the Rye-sow or the Wheat-sow at, vii. 298

Böhmerwald Mountains, the Oats-goat at harvest in the, vii. 284; annual expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night in the, ix. 159 _sq._

Bohus, Midsummer fires in, x. 172

Bohuslän, in Sweden, prehistoric rock-carving at, vii. 129 _n._ 1

_Boidès_, torches or bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 _n._ 1

Boiled flesh tabooed to manslayers, iii. 185

—— meat offered to the Seasons, i. 310

Boiling bewitched animal or part of it to compel witch to appear, x. 321 _sq._, 323

—— a thief’s name, iii. 331

Boiling milk, omens drawn from, xi. 8

—— resin, ordeal of, x. 311

Boils caused by magical stones, i. 147; thought to be caused by eating or touching a totemic animal, viii. 25, 29; crawling under a bramble as a cure for, xi. 180

Bolang Mongondo, a district of Celebes, recall of lost soul in, iii. 53 _sq._; disposal of child’s first hair, iii. 279; names of relations tabooed in, iii. 341; rajahs of, their names not to be mentioned, iii. 376; custom as to eating the new rice in, viii. 54; belief in demons in, ix. 85 _sq._; riddles only asked when there is a corpse in the village in, ix. 121 _n._ 3

Bolbe in Macedonia, lake of, ix. 142 _n._ 1

Bolivia, the Moxos Indians of, i. 123; Aymara Indians of, i. 292, iii. 97, ix. 193; the Chiriguanos Indians of, vi. 143 _n._ 4, 145, viii. 140, 286, ix. 26, 193, x. 56; Tarija in, vii. 173 _n._; the Guarayos of, viii. 157; the Pechuyos of, viii. 157; the Retoroños of, viii. 157; the Yuracares Indians of, viii. 235 _sq._, 257, x. 57 _sq._; heaps of stones or sticks in, ix. 12; sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15; Indians of, their offerings at cairns, ix. 26 _sq._; fires on St. John’s Eve in, x. 213; La Paz in, xi. 50

Boloki, or Bangala, of the Upper Congo, their ceremonies at the new moon,