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539

Avalon, isle of : in romance of

Melusine, 189 Avebury ; in tale, 524 Avebury, Lord : death, 282 ;

obituary, 242-4 Awemba : Gouldsbury and

Sheane's The Great Plateau of

Northern Rhodesia reviewed,

264-5, 267-9 Axes, stone : as amulets, Italy,

67, Spain, 67-8 ; divine, S.

Amer., 60 Ayrshire, see Monkton

Babies, see Children Baboon : as siboko, S. Africa, 169, 172-4 ; tabooed, Pokomo,

459 Babylonia : influence on Greece,

27 ; sickness and death un- natural, 388 Backache : stone seat cures,

Clare, 211 Backwards : to call up Devil,

Oxon, 84 ; to see future

consort, Ontario, 222 Backwaters of the Nile, The, by

A. L. Kitching, reviewed,

264-7 Bacon's Hole : paintings, 38 Badger : demon, Clare, 208 Baganda : death, origin of, 389 Bahurutsi : siboko, 169, 172-4 Bakuena : siboko, 169, 172-4 Bala : hiring fair, 107 Balance Sheet, 13 Balkan Peninsula : (5^^' also

Albania ; Bulgaria ; Greek ;

Moldavia ; Servia ; Turkey-in-

Europe) ; gipsies, 340 Ballydeely, 99 Ballydonohan : tale, 496 Balme ; death customs, 214 ;

tale, 218 Baluba : language, 268 Baluchistan : {see also Makran) ;

folklore, 228-32 ; head mani- pulation, 272 Bamford : gipsy girl buried

alive, 332 Banana : in game, Kiwai Papuans,

288 ; in song, Kiwai Papuans,

299 Banana plant : song in planting,

Kiwai Papuans, 306 Bangala : sham fight, 38S Banks' islands : (see also Mota) ;

death myth, 390 ; future life, 391

Banshees : Clare, 98, 367, 373-4

Bantu : (see also under tribal names) ; languages, 268 ; si- bokism, 131 ; totem-kin break- ing down, 145

Baptism : gipsies, 323-4 : Pied- mont, 213

Bards : Gilyaks, 482-4 ; India,

534

Barking : folk-medicine, 120

Barkinji : class system, 183

Barley : sowing. Piedmont, 216

Barnard Gate : folklore, 74-91

Barrenness, see Birth

Barton-in-Humber : use of church, 133

Bat : in song, Kiwai Papuans, 298

Bathing, 395

Battle traditions : Clare, 503 ; Radnor, no

Beads : (see also Amulets and talismans) ; green, as symbol, Baluchistan, 228 ; ornaments, Pokomo, 466

Beans : in divination, Cvprus, 358

Bear: in saying, Brcconsh., 511; weather sign, Canada, 219

Beast fables, 58-9, 143

Beasts, see Animals

Beating, ceremonial : Courland, 248 ; Fiji, 390

Bee : ' ringing the bees,' Oxon, 88, Warwicksh., 240 ; not sold, Warwicksh., 240 ; in tales, S. Amer., 58 ; ' telling the bees," Ontario, 223, Warwicksh. etc., 240 ; weather sign, Ontario, 220

Beesands : Friday fishing un- lucky, 237 ; Nov. 5, 237

Belbroughton : gipsies, 348

Belief in Immortality an4 the Wor- ship of the Dead, The, by J. G. Frazer, reviewed, 386-92

Bell : in amulets, Spain, 69-72 ; in charm for rain, Baluchistan. 229 ; Glastonbury, 17 ; in rites, Manipur, 430- r, Mende, 129 : in saying, Oxfordsh., 77 ; St. Senan's, 207

Bengal Presidency, see Serampore

Beni Amer : position of women,

199 Beowulf, poem of, 252-4