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Australian Gods, A Reply, by Andrew- Lang, I Rejoinder, by E. S. Hartland,

Religion, A. Lang, 489

Babylonian influence on Hellenic

myth, 340 Baffie, white dove form of departing

soul at, 333 Baiame or Byamee, Australian god,

4' 7) 34) 37) 51) 34^) in Australian

tales, 347, as creator, 17, 18, 20,

24, 27, 39, dwelling and food of,

25, institutes Kangaroo dance, 19, Mrs. Parker o/i, 490 et seq. ; Myth of and parallels, 53, sons of, 18, 26, 28, 493 ; unending life of, 17

Bailah Burrah, son of Byamee, 493

Balance Sheet, 70

Ballad literature, European, 97

Ballads, absence of, in Celtic litera- ture, 99, 100

of North and West Europe, 96

original homes of, 98, 99

Ballimah, the Australian heaven, 28, 52, location of, 54

Baloch cannibalism to acquire dead men's virtues, 403

Baltic localities identified with places in the Helgi-lays, 453

Bamboos, 301

Banshee, the, 123

Barley, divination by, 152

Baroiiga, Les, Etude Ethnographique stir les Indighies de la Bale de Delagoa. Moeurs, Droit, Cottlumes, Vie Nationale, Industrie Tradi- tions, Superstitions et Religion, par IL A. Junod, reviewed by E. S. Hartland, 225

birth customs, 227, marriage

customs, 225, worship and gods, 226-7

Barrel shape of evil spirit, Wexford, 362

Barrenness, Indian means of curing, 392, 393 ; sacrifice to cure at Bury St. Edmunds, 355

Barrows, 89, 90, empty, 92-5, reason for, 93

Basil in sunstroke charm, Greek Isles, 167

Basutoland, hares in, 283

Batcombe church, Conjurer Mintcrn's horse-leap at, 481

Bath of new born child heated with red hot poker, 457

Bathing, ceremonial, India, 437

Batting the water with the hands, by fairies, Ireland, 121, 123

Battle-bards, and their kinship, 454

Beads, blue, uses of, 154

worn to keep off diseases, 154

Beans, used to discover lost things, 154, in magic, 171

Bear-wives of the red-headed wood- pecker, 195, 196, 199-203

Bears, led about as play-mates, 153 ; magical properties attributed to,

Beast bespelling, 152, or binding,

154, 161-4, to protect children,

162 Beasts, colours put upon against the

Evil Eye, 152 crowds of, protecting heroes or

saints, 398 Beavers' eyes in " medicine," 204 Bedawi folklore ; whistling the speech

of Devils, 172 Beelzebub in Warwickshire mumming,

187, et seqq. Beer, bottled, buried in grave in

Berkshire, 253 Beetles, to get rid of. South African

folklore, 227 Beltane unlucky when falling on

Thursday, Hebrides, 268 Beowulf and the Dragon, 218

poem of, where composed, 82

Bergfolk, Scandinavia, 459 Berkshire folklore. Bottled beer

buried in a grave, 253, method of

finding drowned body in, I15 Besom laid across threshold against a

witch, 480 Bhagat, stone god, India, gratitude of,

416 Bhuta, of S. India, 412, nortliern

counterparts of, 393 Bible under pillow to protect un-

christened child, Yorkshire, 350 Big I lead and Little Wits in Warwick- shire mumming, 188 Billson, C. J., review by, Aber-

crcjmby's Pre- and Prolo-Historic

P'inns, 325 Binding Spells, 154, operating on

married people, 156, charms to

nullify, 156-60 Bird folklore, see Black fowl, Blue

jay. Cock, Cormorants, Cranes,