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 Index.

511

Badhu, goddess, India, 154

Baganda : ancestral spirits, 312 ; feasts for dead, 312-3; historical traditions, 428-56 ; spirit pos- session, 312-3

Bagpipes : Mayo, 339 ; White Kuthenians, 99

Bahima, 435-6, 441

Bahr-el-Ghazal : casting out devils, 309

Baikal Lake, see Buriats

Baisdkh month : divination, India, 76-7 ; New Year begins, 55

Bakongo, 455

Balaghat : Holi, 60, 68

Balance Sheet, 3, n

Balijas : miracle, 493

Balkan Peninsula, see Kutzo X'lachs ; Macedonia ; Rou- mania ; Serbia ; Thrace

Ballachy : tales, 324, 332

Ballads, see Folk-songs

Ballyshannon : nursery rhymes, 386

Baluba, 448-9, 450

Balunda, 455

Banffshire, see Botriphnie ; Buchan ; Kirkmichael ; Tom- intoul

Bankura : hook-swinging, 172, 182

Bannock : in marchen, Aber- deensh., 353-4

Banshees : Mayo, 334-7 ; Scot- land, 84-91

Bantu, see under tiames of tribes

Baobab-tree ; haunted by devils, Pemba, 395

Baptism : after dark makes ghosts visible, Kaig, 349 ; omen at, Jersey, 248 ; un- lucky to cover face before, Jersey, 248

Barking deer : in tales, Assam,

489. 495-6

Barnacle tree, 266

Baroda : rites of tiger god, 187

Barrenness, see Birth

Basevi, \V. H. F. : Unberufen : Touching Wood, 380-1

Bashilele, 444, 455

Bathing : tabu in, Nigeria, 405

Bathurst is. : customs and in- stitutions, 505-8

Bavaria : amulet, 210

Beads and Knots, by M. Gaster, 254-8

Bear : festival, Siberia, 47 ; in

tales, Modocs, 143 ; venerated, Siberia, 48

Beard : Hide of Beardless One, Persia, 73-4

Beasts, see Animals

Beating, ceremonial : Morocco, 502

Beawar : procession, Holi, 72

Bechuana, 457-8

Bee : in rhyme, Sussex, 369 ; in tale, Assam, 491-2

Beer, see Ale

Beerbhoom : human sacrifice for rain, 189

Beetle : to kill causes rain, Cambs, 366

Belgaum : hook-swinging, 170, 181

Bell : abbey, foils Devil's cast, Glos., 375 ; church, rang all night, Hallowe'en, England, 286 ; pancake, Yorks, 375 ; sounding as clock strikes un- lucky, Piedmont, 278

Bellary : hook-swinging, 164-5

Bengal Presidency : {see also As- sam ; Bankura ; Beerbhoom ; Bhagots ; Chota Nagpur ; Hooghly ; Malda ; Midnapur ; Orissa ; Santals ; Sarenga ; Tarakeswar ; Tharus) ; bon- fires, Holi, 57, 63, 75 ; hook- swinging, 172-3, 181

Benin : human sacrifice for rain, 191

Bennion, E. F. : The Nightingale an lU-Omened Bird, 372

Berkhamstead Common : hidden treasure, 342-3

Betrothal, see Courting

Bhadra Kali, deity, India, 168

Bhagavathi, deity, India, 167

Bhagots : mock sacrifice for rain, 190-1

Bhils : Holi, 57, 65, 71 ; marriage custom, 71, 8r

Bible : knots in, 256-7

Bibliography : for 1908, 7 ; of morris dance, 393

Bikenge, 455

Bilston : souling rhyme, 288-9

Birch-tree : in charm, Suffolk, 365 ; in songs. White Kuth- enians, 225-6

Birds : (see also Crow ; Cuckoo ; Dabchick ; Dove ; Duck ; Eagle ; Fowls ; Goose ; Horn-