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British Isles, four historical races of,

79, the home of the Eddie Poems,

450-1 Bronze age, barrows of, 89 ; camps

or forts of, Dorsetshire, 478-9 Brow of corpse touched to prevent

ill-luck 254, 477 Buarach, the, (horsehair cattle-tie),

Hebrides, 277 Buckland Newton church, visited by

spirits. Midsummer Eve, 481 Buildings, human sacrifice to ensure

stability of, 1 82-4

seen in phantom flames, 120

special, for marriage, birth and

death, JapaTi, 300 Bulabong, spirit of the dead,

Australia, 16, 17 Bullimah {see Ballimah), 28, 52, 54 Bull-roarers, 236, 494 Bullock, in Australian dances, 19 ;

in Indian folktale, 415 Bulls, as alms to St. Cuthbert, 353 ;

in Irish tales, 218 white, as freemen's dues, and

fines, 356

winged, Indian folktales, 419

Bungay, Black Dog of, suggested

origin, 476 Bunjil, Australian god, 4, 50, mean- ing of name, 34-5, as Our Father,

35> 37 ; Poem on, 35 ; unending

life of, 17 Burambin, son of Baiame, 26 Burial custom, by Mrs. I. Hooper,

254

, by R. M. Nason, 254

, by G. J. Watts, 253

Buried animals (in walls) becoming

spectres. Denmark, 360 Burma, idol-chaining in, 420 Burning bushes, Wexford, 362 Burns or scalds, cured by licking a

dry ask, 252 Burnt-offering, {see Calves) to make

rain, or find treasure, 230 Bury St. Edmunds, white cattle of,

ceremonial uses of, 355 Burying plant after touching warts to

cure them. 479 Bush gods of the Baronga, 226 Bushes blazing, Wexford, 362 Butter, charm to protect, Wexford,

364 ; in warm milk as a cure,

Hebrides, 280 Buying not right on Fridays,

Hebrides, 268

Bye-gones relating to Wales and the Border Counties, 1897-98, re- viewed by E. S. Hartland, 350

Cabbage, meaning of dreaming of,

116 Cairpre niafer, a real person, 218 Cakes, &c. , laid on tombs on feast

days, Calymnos, 180-1 ; loved by

Kalikazari, Cyprus, 176 Calendar, in relation to Egyptian

mythology, 109 Calves, hung in chains or buried at

threshold, loi, Calymnos, Island of, cakes in con- nection with festivals, &c. , 180 Cambridgeshire, Game of Green

Gravel in, 112 Camel, Indian folklore, 415

winged, do., 419

Candle-wick in tallow as cure for

Ague, 365 Cannibalism, of Daramulun, 40 attributed to Indian witches,

ceremonial in India, 403, 407

in North America, tales of, 211,

215 Cantal, the Wind and St. Laurence

at, 333-4 Canterbury Cathedral, Angel Steeple

of, 359 Capacity, manly, the same as virtue,

Indian folklore, 426-8 Carr, H. Wildon, A Sicilian Festival,

252 Carriers {til-beri), Iceland, 460 Cash Account, 69 Cassia tree. 311 Castes in Egypt, 229 Cat, the, in folktales, 1 16, 224, 284 ;

in folklore, Hebrides, 262, 270 ;

grateful, Indian folktales, 416 Catalogues of warriors, value of, 220 Caterpillar-god of the Everlasting

World, Japan, 319 Cattle, sacred animals, 371, 377,

378 ; afl'ccted by music, Indian

tales, 415 ; blessed, Hebrides, 260,

262 ; blessing prayers for, 161 ;

charm to keep safe on hill-side,

Hebrides, 262 ; white, 352, 353,

355 Cattle-switching, Cos and elsewhere,

179-80, cf. 262 Cauls, 476, lucky, of the Crewe

family, lOI