iii. 35;

recall of lost souls in, iii. 55 _sq._; the Ot Danoms of, iii. 103; precautions against strangers in, iii. 103 _sq._; the Blu-u Kayans of, iii. 104; exorcism of spirits by means of rice in, iii. 106; the Dusuns of, iii. 230, ix. 200; natives of, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353; the Malanau tribes of, iii. 406; the Sakarang Dyaks of, iii. 416; the Barito of, iv. 166 _n._ 1; custom of head-hunting in, v. 294 _sqq._; effeminate sorcerers in, vi. 253, 256; division of agricultural work between the sexes in, vii. 124; use of puppets as substitutes for living persons in, viii. 100 _sq._; custom in the search for camphor in, viii. 186 _n._; the Kalamantans of, viii. 293 _sq._; belief in demons in, ix. 87; sickness expelled in a ship from, ix. 187; the Biajas of, ix. 200; festivals in, x. 13; seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 35 _sq._; birth-custom in, xi. 154 _sq._; trees and plants as life-indices in, xi. 164 _sq._; the Madangs of, xi. 175; creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral in, xi. 175 _sq._; giving the slip to an evil spirit in, xi. 179 _sq._

Borneo, Central, the Kayans of, i. 330, ii. 17, 109, iii. 47, 99, 110, 113, 164, 239, 260, 286, 406, iv. 218, vii. 92, 184, viii. 54 _sq._, ix. 154 _n._, 236, 382 _sq._, x. 4 _sq._, xi. 175; agricultural communities of, vii. 92

——, Eastern, Tengaroeng in, iv. 280, 281

——, Northern, the Dyaks of, vii. 188

——, South-Eastern, the Dyaks of, iii. 72 _n._ 1

——, Western, precautions against frightening the spirit of the rice in, ii. 28

Bornu, the Sultan of, hides himself from his people, iii. 120 _sq._

Boroma, on the Zambesi, rain-maker with unshorn hair at, iii. 259 _sq._

Bororos of Brazil, best singers chosen chiefs among the, ii. 298 _sq._; their conception of the soul as a bird, iii. 34; their belief in dreams, iii. 36; their belief and custom as to meteors, iv. 62 _sq._; consecration of maize, game, and fish by medicine-men among the, viii. 71 _sq._; their identification of themselves with parrots, viii. 207 _sq._; their use of bull-roarers, xi. 230 _n._

Borrow, witches come to, x. 322, 323, xi. 73

Borsippa, temple of E-zida at, iv. 110

Bosanquet, Professor R. C., on the Four-handed Apollo, vi. 250 _n._ 2

Boscana, Father Geronimo, on the customs and superstitions of the Californian Indians, vii. 125, viii. 169

_Bosco Sacro_, the grove of Egeria, i. 18 _n._ 4

Bosman, W., on serpent-worship in Guinea, v. 67

Bosnia, hawthorn used as a protection against vampyres in, ix. 153 _n._ 1; need-fire in, x. 286; life-trees of children in, xi. 165

Bosnian Turks, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 74

Bossuet, Bishop, on the Midsummer bonfires, x. 182

Botocudos of Brazil, their reason for eating the flesh of their enemies,