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Index.

Blue ; beads to avert Evil Eye, lo, in divination, l6 ; bows of Yorkshire bride, 126 ; garters of English bride, reason for, 128

Boat to fetch souls, Haidah belief and parallels, 272

Bone-throwing at feasts, 119

Bones, as charms, 10, 12

Boo-err-go-en, Australian divinity,

307

Books presented to Folk-Lore So- ciety, I, 2, 135, 157, 193 ; pub- lished, by Folk-Lore Society, 23

Boonoorong tribe of Australia. divinity of, 296

Bora, or initiation ceremonies of Australian aborigines, 300

Borrowed clothing used by brides, 128

Bouphonia, the, 178

Bourges, attempt to exercise "jus primce noctis " at, 367

Bowen, H. C, Lincoln Minster and the Devil, 364

Brahman mnemonic feats 180; rain ceremonies, 277-279

Brahmanism and caste in India, 168

Bread, sacredness of, loaf-kissing in Catania, 258 ; crumbs placed on the head, Albania, 344 ; and dough, in Syrian folklore. 5, 16, 17, 18

Breton origin of Arthurian romances, 271

Bridal veil {see also Marriage dress. Presents, etc.), underlying idea of, 125 ; English use of, 126

Bride, chosen by husband's father, Homeric customs and parallels, 112; duties of, in preparation for marriage, various countries, 127- 129; effect of Evil Eye on, 128; part in Indian marriage ceremonies, 145-153 ; native ideal of, 155 ; various ways of gaining, 1 00, 104, 106, 107, III, 112, 132

Bridegroom, Majhwar, dressed in white, 125 ; Punjabi, native ideal of, 153

Bridge, the, in Gawain tale, and parallels, 268-271

Briseis, 104

Britain, see England, Scotland and Wales, Life in Early Britain, and Presidential Address

British Church, scanty records of, 77

British and Gaelic folklore, resem- blances o.f, 271

Brittany, soul-ferrying from, 272;

Upper, female monoliths in, 184;

legendary tales of, 78 Britten, James, his charges against

the Society refuted by E. S.

Hartland and A. Nutt, 362-363 " Brittia," an abode of souls, 272 Broadwood, Lucy E., Pins and Metal

in Wells, 368 Brochs, connected with fairies, dan- ger of meddling with, 280 Brogan, Australian comrade of initia- tion, 309 Brora, rain-producing at, 278 Brosinga-mene, the necklace of

Freya, 365 Brownies, Danish folklore. 213, 215 Bruges, Holy Blood at, 360 Brythonic literature, 41 ; its area,

46 Bulgaria, folklore of, catch-words

from. 261 ; legend of St. John

Chrysostom, 83 Bull's blood in chastity test, 130 Bunjil, or Pundjel, Australian

divinity, Kulin tribe, 303-305,

312 Burambin, son of Baiame, Australian

divinity, 302 Burbung, the mysteries of the

^Viradthuri, Australia, 299 Burma, belief in power of nats in,

333

Burning dead man s goods, reason for, 115, 117, 118; effig)' of medical officer of health at ^Iaid- stone, 256 ; figure of Black Lad at Ashton-under-Lyne, 3S1 ; of Judas Iscariot, 284

Bushmen, myth among but no ritual, 160

Butter, bewitched, charm for, 285

Caithness, Druid stones in, 87 Cakes, Easter cake, Calymnos. 2 Calabria, folklore of, magic dresses,

129 Calymnos, Easter cake from, 2 Calypso, 120 Cambyses' wives takes by Smerdis,

116 Cape Malea, 175 Captured girls taken for concubines,

104 Cardevyle, port of, 266 Carmal, Mound of the Priests at,

179