BABYLON: annual sacrifice of a criminal proxy king, 77; hypothesis of that rite, 91, 101, 103, 106 Backhouse, Mr. (Quaker), his 'Visit to Australian Colonies,' cited, 26 Bagolos (tribe): human sacrifices, 129 Baiame (Pei-a-mei, or Baiamai) (Australian moral creative being), 25-32, 35, 36, 39, 40, 42, 43, 66, 67, 89, 226, 238, 297 Balder (Scandinavian spirit), the Eddaic myth of, 213-217 Ballima (Australian spiritual paradise), 36, 37 Banjars (tribe): beat their king till the weather changes, 85 Barabbas: a counterpart of the sacred Victim, 201, 303, 304 Bau (Babylonian goddess), 137, 138 Beiderbecke, Mr., on South African gods, 236, 237 Beiruk, William (Australian black), on Bunjil, 34 Benares: fire-walking, 290, 291 Benedictine Mission at Nursia, 13 Bernadette (seeress of Lourdes): fire-handling, 272 Berosus, quoted, on the Sacæa, 119, 120, 142, 144, 185, 196 Birds, wise, Australian and American myth of, 24 Blackfoot Indians (N. America): religious ideas, 295 Bluebeard: new version, 167 Bobowissi (W. African deity), 39 Bora (Australian initiatory mysteries), women excluded from, 30, 58, 66, 71, 195 Borrowed religion, 15 _et seq_., 295 Boyma. _See_ Baiame Brahan warning to the Mackenzies, superstitious belief, 98 Brebeuf, Father, on the Oki, 19, 42 Brewin (Kurnai supreme being), 27, 49, 52, 53 Brinton: etymology of the god Kiehtan, 20 British Isles: fire-walking, 271 Brough Smyth, Mr., cited, 41, 54 Bryant's ark, 5 Buckley (convict), on the Australian ideas of a god, 26 Bulgaria, Nistinares of: fire-handling, 272, 283, 285, 286 Bullimah (Australian paradise), 36 Bull-roarers, (in savage mysteries), 65, 67, 71, 248, 255 Bunjil (Australian god), 32, 34, 41, 66 Bunyip (fabled Australian monster), 26