iii. 147, 149;

seclusion of women at menstruation among the, x. 86

Bricknell, J., on a custom of the Carolina Indians, iv. 184 _sq._

Bridal pair, the, at Whitsuntide in Saxony, ii. 91; at rice-harvest in Java, vii. 200 _sq._

Bride tied to tree at marriage, ii. 57; the Whitsuntide, ii. 89, 96; the May, ii. 95; led to or round the hearth at marriage, ii. 221, 230, 231; races for a, ii. 300 _sqq._; contests for a, ii. 305 _sqq._; fishing-net thrown over, iii. 307; dressed as a man, vi. 260; the last, privilege of, ix. 183; not allowed to tread the earth, x. 5; last married, made to leap over bonfire, xi. 22

—— and bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, ii. 91 _sq._; the Midsummer, in Sweden, ii. 92, v. 251; all knots on their garments unloosed, iii. 299 _sq._; carry locked locks at marriage, iii. 308; mock, at bonfires, x. 109 _sq._

Bride of God, the, in a rain-making ceremony, i. 276

——, name given to last sheaf, vii. 162, 163

—— of the Nile, vi. 38

—— race among Teutonic peoples, ii. 303 _sqq._

Bride, parish of, in the Isle of Man, x. 306, 307 _n._ 1

Bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, ii. 91; girt with a net, iii. 307; dressed as a woman, vi. 260 _sq._; disfigured in order to avert the evil eye, vi. 261; not to touch the ground with his feet, x. 5

—— of May, ii. 91, 93, iv. 266

Bridget’s bed on the night before Candlemas in the Highlands of Scotland and the Isle of Man, ii. 94 _sq._ _See also_ St. Bridget

Bridlington, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338

Brie (Isle de France), the May-tree and Father May at, ii. 74 _sq._; farmer tied up in first sheaf at, vii. 221; stranger tied up in sheaf at harvest at, vii. 226; effigy of giant burnt on Midsummer Eve at, xi. 38

Brigit, a Celtic goddess, ii. 95, 240 _sqq._; her Christian namesake and successor at Kildare, ii. 240 _sqq._ _See also_ St. Brigit

Brihaspati, Hindoo deity, i. 166, x. 99 _n._ 2

Brimo and Brimos, in the mysteries of Eleusis, ii. 139

Brincker, Dr. P. H., on the sacred sticks representing ancestors among the Herero, ii. 224 _n._ 4

Bringing in Summer, iv. 233, 237, 238, 246 _sqq._

Briony, wreaths of, at Midsummer, x. 210

Brisbane River in Queensland, use of bull-roarers on the, xi. 233 _sqq._

British Columbia, Indians of, their dislike of telling their own names,