xi. 215, 216, 218

Brotherhood formed with trees by sucking their sap, ii. 19 _sq._; of the Green Wolf at Jumièges in Normandy, x. 185 _sq._ _See also_ Blood-brotherhood

Brothers reviled by sisters for good luck, i. 279; of king put to death on his accession, iii. 243; childless persons named after their younger, iii. 332, 333; ancient Egyptian story of the Two, xi. 134 _sqq._

Brothers and sisters, marriages of, in royal families, iv. 193 _sq._, v. 44; in ancient Egypt, vi. 214 _sqq._; their intention to keep the property in the family, vi. 215 _sq._

—— -in-law, their names not to be pronounced, iii. 338, 342, 343, 344, 345

Brown, A. R., as to the Andaman Islanders, ii. 254 _n._; on the beliefs of the West Australian aborigines as to the causes of childbirth, v. 104 _sqq._

Brown, Dr. Burton, on a burial custom of the Nagas, viii. 100 _n._ 2

Brown, Dr. George, on the magical powers ascribed to chiefs in New Britain, i. 340; on snakes as reincarnations of chiefs, v. 84; on the annual appearance of the _Palolo veridis_ in the Samoan Sea, ix. 142 _n._ 1; on the seclusion of girls at puberty in New Ireland, x. 32 _sqq._; on external soul in Melanesia, xi. 199

Bruck in Styria, the last sheaf called the Corn-mother at, vii. 134

Bructeri, a German tribe, worship a woman, i. 391

Bruges, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70

Brughe, John, his cure for bewitched cattle, x. 324 _sq._

Brugsch, H., on Egyptian names for a year, vi. 26 _n._ 1; on the Sothic period, vi. 37 _n._; on the grave of Osiris at Philae, vi. 111; on Isis as a personified corn-field, vi. 117

Bruguière, Mgr., on the fear of demons in Siam, ix. 97; on the annual expulsion of the devil in Siam, ix. 150 _sq._

Brund (or brand), the Christmas, the Yule log, x. 257

Brunhild, Queen of Iceland, the wooing of, ii. 306 _sq._

Brunnen, Twelfth Night at, ix. 165

Brunshaupten, in Mecklenburg, the Wheat-wolf at harvest at, vii. 274

Brunswick, custom at Whitsuntide in, ii. 56 _n._ 3; May King at Whitsuntide in, ii. 84, 85; the May Bride at Whitsuntide in, ii. 96; dramatic contest between Summer and Winter in, iv. 257; toothache nailed into a wall or a tree in, ix. 62; belief as to menstruous women in, x. 96; Easter bonfires in, x. 140; need-fire in, x. 277 _sq._

Brushes used in magic, i. 132

Brutus, D. Junius, his mitigation of human sacrifices at graves, iv. 143 _n._ 4

——, L. Junius, one of the first consuls, ii. 290; his feigned imbecility, ii. 291

Brutus, the assassin, his meeting with Cicero, i. 5

Bryant, Jacob, and Noah’s ark, i. 334

Bubastis, shrine of, at Nemi, i. 5

Bubui River, in German New Guinea, viii. 295

Buch, Max, on a ceremony of the Wotyaks, ii. 146

Buchan, Hallowe’en fires in, x. 232 _sq._

Buchanan, Francis, on Burmese _nats_, ix, 175 _sq._

_Bûche de Noël_, the Yule log, x. 249

Buckie, names tabooed by fishermen in the village of, iii. 395

Buckthorn, a charm against witches on May Day, ii. 54; a protection against thunderbolts, ii. 191 _n._ 1; torch of, at a Roman marriage, ii. 191 _n._ 1; a protection against witches, ii. 191, ix. 153 _n._ 1, 163; used in making fire by friction, ii. 251; chewed to keep off ghosts, ix. 153; used to beat cattle, ix. 266

Buckwheat cultivated in Burma, vii. 242

Bucolium at Athens, vii. 30

Buddha appealed to for rain, i. 251, 299; image of, whipped in drought, i. 297 _n._ 7; images of, drenched as a rain-charm, i. 308; imitated by a king of Burma, i. 400; thought to be incarnate in the Grand Lamas, i. 411; images of, iii. 253; transmigrations of, viii. 299, 301, ix. 41; date of his death, viii. 302 _n._ 7; in relation to spirits, ix. 97; offerings to, ix. 150

—— and Buddhism, vi. 159

—— and the crocodile, Indian story, xi. 102 _n._ 4

——, Footprint of, in Siam, iii. 275

Buddhas, living, i. 410 _sq._

Buddhism, Tibetan form of, iii. 20; spiritual declension of, v. 310 _sq._; in relation to lower religions, ix. 89, 90 _n._ 1, 94, 95 _sqq._; in Burma, ix. 95 _sq._; the pope of, ix. 223

Buddhist animism not a philosophical theory, ii. 13 _sq._

—— Lent, the, ix. 349 _sq._

—— monk, who sent his soul out of himself, ii. 49 _sq._

—— monks, suicide of, iv. 42 _sq._; ceremony at the funeral of, ix. 175

—— priests expel demons, ix. 116

Buddhists of Ceylon, their propitiation of demons, ix. 90 _n._ 1; the Laosians of Siam nominal, ix. 97

Budding of a bean an omen, ii. 344

Budge, E. A. Wallis, on trinities of Egyptian gods, iv. 5 _n._ 3; on goddess Net, v. 282 _n._; on an Egyptian funeral rite, vi. 15 _n._ 2; on Isis, vi. 115 _sq._; on the nature of Osiris, vi. 126 _n._ 2; on the solar theory of Osiris, vi. 131 _n._ 3; on the historical reality of Osiris, vi. 160 _n._ 1; on Khenti-Amenti, vi. 198 _n._ 2; on human sacrifices in ancient Egypt, vii. 259 _n._ 3; on the shrines of Osiris, vii. 260 _n._ 2; on the fear of demons among the ancient Egyptians, ix. 103 _sq._

Buduna tribe of West Australia, their beliefs as to the birth of children, v. 104 _sq._

Buecheler, F., his corruption of the text of Petronius, ix. 253 _n._ 2

Buffalo sacrificed for human victim, vii. 249; external souls of a clan in a, xi. 151; a Batta totem, xi. 223

Buffalo-bull, name given to the last sheaf, vii. 289

—— calf, sins of dead transferred to a, ix. 36 _sq._

—— clan in Uganda, x. 3

—— dance to ensure a supply of buffaloes, ix. 171

—— Society among the Omahas, i. 249

Buffaloes not to be mentioned by their proper name, iii. 407, 408, 412; sacrificed instead of young girls, iv. 124; propitiation of dead, viii. 229, 231; their death bewailed, viii. 242; the resurrection of, viii. 256; revered by the Todas, viii. 314; as scapegoats, ix. 190, 191; external human souls in, xi. 207, 208

Buffooneries at the Festival of Fools, ix. 335 _sq._

Buginese of Celebes, their homoeopathic charm to ensure longevity, i. 158; their use of the regalia as a remedy for plague or dearth, i. 363; their belief as to the blighting effects of incestuous blood, ii. 110; their custom of swinging at harvest, iv. 277; ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183

—— sailors, words tabooed to, iii. 413

Bugis of South Celebes, effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, vi. 253 _sq._

Bühl, St. John’s fires at, x. 168

Bühler, G., on the identity of the names Perkunas and Parjanya, ii. 367 _n._ 3; on Parjanya, ii. 369

Building shadows into foundations, iii. 89 _sq._

—— of a canoe, continence at the, iii. 202

—— a house, taboos observed after, ii. 40; Malay custom as to shadows in, iii. 81

—— houses, magic art resorted to in, ix. 81

—— a new village, continence at, iii. 202

Buir, in district of Cologne, last sheaf shaped like wolf at, vii. 274

Bukaua, the, of German New Guinea, tell stories to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 103 _sq._, 105; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313; their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 124 _sq_.; their belief in demons, ix. 83 _sq._; girls at puberty secluded among the, x. 35; their rites of initiation, xi. 239 _sqq._

Bukowina, the Ruthenians of, i. 198; witches on St. George’s Day in, ii. 335

_Bu-ku-rú_, ceremonial uncleanness, in Costa Rica, iii. 147, x. 65 _n._ 1, 86

Bulaa, village in New Guinea, iii. 192 _n._ 5

Bulawayo, capital of the Matabele, rain-making ceremony at, i. 351; ceremony of the first-fruits at, viii. 70

Bulebane, in Senegambia, precaution as to the spittle of chiefs at, iii. 289

Buléon, Mgr., on the rite of blood-brotherhood with an animal, quoted by Father H. Trilles, xi. 202 _n._ 1

Bulgaria, ceremony of adoption in, i. 74; rain-making in, i. 274; rolling in the dew on St. George’s morning in, ii. 333; superstition as to milk and butter on St. George’s Day in, ii. 339; building custom in, iii. 89; marriage customs in, vi. 246; masquerade at Carnival in, viii. 333 _sq._; cure for fever in, ix. 55; the Yule log in, x. 264 _n._ 1; need-fire in, x. 281, 285; simples and flowers culled on St. John’s Day in, xi. 50; creeping through an arch of vines as a cure in, xi. 180; creeping under the root of a willow as a cure for whooping-cough in, xi. 180 _sq._ _See also_ Bulgarian _and_ Bulgarians

——, Simeon, prince of, xi. 156 _sq._

Bulgarian charm for guarding cattle from wolves, iii. 307

—— peasants threaten fruit-trees to make them bear fruit, ii. 21

—— superstition as to crossed legs, iii. 299

—— women, their charm to hoodwink their husbands, i. 149; their charm to procure offspring on St. George’s Day, ii. 344

Bulgarians, their customs as to the last sheaf at harvest, vii. 146; the Carnival among the, viii. 331 _sqq._; their way of keeping off ghosts, ix. 153 _n._ 1

Bull sacrificed to Poseidon, i. 46; blood of, drunk by priestess to procure inspiration, i. 381 _sq._; as emblem of a thunder-god, ii. 368, v. 134 _sqq._, 136; sacrificed to the dead, iii. 227; Pasiphae and the, iv. 71; as symbol of the sun, iv. 71 _sq._; as type of reproductive energy, iv. 72; the brazen, of Phalaris, iv. 75; perhaps the king’s crest at Cnossus, iv. 111 _sq._; said to have guided the Samnites, iv. 186 _n._ 4; as emblem of generative force, v. 123; worshipped by the Hittites, v. 123, 132; Hittite god standing on a, v. 135; as symbol of thunder and fertility, v. 163 _sq._; the emblem of the Father God, v. 164; worshipped at Euyuk, v. 164; testicles of, used in rites of Cybele and Attis, v. 276; in relation to Dionysus, vii. 16 _sq._, 31; corn-spirit as, vii. 288 _sqq._, viii. 8; sacrificed at Zulu festival of first-fruits, viii. 68 _n._ 3; sacrificed to the dead, viii. 113. _See also_ Bulls

Bull, black, sacrificed to the dead at Plataea, iv. 95

—— and cow, represented by masked actors, iv. 71

——, live, torn to pieces in rites of Dionysus, vii. 15, 17, viii. 16

——, sacrifice of, at Egyptian funeral, vi. 15; to prolong the life of a king, vi. 222; to Zeus, the Saviour of the City, vi. 238; at the foundation of a town, vi. 249; at Magnesia, viii. 7 _sq._; in Mithraic religion, viii. 10; at festival of new fruits, viii. 68 _n._ 3; at tomb of dead chief, viii. 113. _See also_ Bulls

——, white, sacrificed, ii. 188 _sq._; soul of dead king incarnate in a, vi. 164

Bull-fights and athletic games at festival of new fruits, viii. 66

—— -headed image of the sun, iv. 75, 76, 78

—— -roarers, sacred, used in magical ceremonies to multiply totems, i. 88; used to make fine weather, i. 265, with note 4; sounded to make wind blow, i. 324, xi. 232; whirled at tearing dogs to pieces, vii. 19 _n._ 1; whirled to make the crops thrive and to multiply game, vii. 104, 106 _sq._, 110, xi. 230 _sq._, 232; fertilizing virtue attributed to, by savages, vii. 106, xi. 230 _sq._; called the “mother of yams,” vii. 106; swung at Greek mysteries, vii. 110; sounded at initiation of lads, viii. 295, xi. 227, 228 _sqq._, 233 _sqq._, 240, 241; swung at kindling of sacred fire, x. 133; sound of, thought to resemble thunder, xi. 228 _sqq._; sounded at festivals of the dead, xi. 230 _n._; made from trees struck by lightning, xi. 231; called “thunder and lightning,” xi. 232; magical instrument for causing thunder, wind, and rain, xi. 233; sound of, supposed to be the voice of a spirit, xi. 233, 234, 235; not to be seen by women, xi. 234, 235, 242; called by name which means a ghost or spirit of the dead, xi. 242; called by the same name as the monster who swallows lads at initiation,