Banner, a fairy, 17 Bantu tribes, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 103, 123 Bantus, the, of South Africa, their customs as to the marriage of cousins, 91 Barea, the, tribe on the borders of Abyssinia, 66 Barring the road from the grave against the ghost, 138 _sq._ Basis of morality shifted from supernatural to natural, 153 Basoga, the, of Central Africa, 65 Bastards put to death, 96, 97 Basutos, the, 56; purification for homicide among the, 120 _sq._ Batamba, the, of Busoga, 76 Batang Lupar river in Borneo, 48 Battas, or Bataks, of Sumatra, their ideas as to sexual immorality, 46; their punishment of adultery, 69; their rules of ceremonial avoidance, 85 Bavili, the, of Loango, 55 Ba-Yaka, the, of the Congo Free State, 124 Beech, M. W. H., 129 _n._ 1 Belief in immortality a fruitful source of war, 129 _sq._; waste of life and property entailed by the, 111 _sq._ Bella Coola Indians, mourning customs of the, 144 Beni Amer, tribe on the borders of Abyssinia, 66 Bering Strait, 132 Besisi, the, of the Malay Peninsula, 137 Bhotias, the, of the Himalayas, 141 Bilaspore in India, 133 Bismarck Archipelago, 131 Black and white Furies, 117 Blood of pigs used in expiatory ceremonies, 44 _sqq._; of incestuous persons not to be shed on the ground, 52, 53, 68; of pigs used in ceremonies of purification, 116 _sq._; of the slain drunk by the slayers, 118 _sq._ Blood covenant, 118, 119 ---- relations, ceremonial avoidance of, 84 _sqq._ Blu-u Kayans, the, of Borneo, 51 Boas, Franz, quoted, 126 _sq._, 146 _sq._ Bogos, tribe on borders of Abyssinia, 81 Bolivia, 106 Boloki, the, of the Congo, 39, 75, 107, 128 Borneo, the Sea Dyaks of, 34, 47 _sq._, 51, 136; pagan tribes of, 49 _sq._; tribes of Dutch, 50 _sq._ Brazil, Indians of, 96 British Columbia, mourning customs among the tribes of, 142 _sqq._ Brooke, Charles, quoted, 50 Brooke, Rajah, 12 Brother and sister, ceremonial avoidance between, 77, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90; incest of, 51, 54, 59, 60 _n._ 1, 62, 67, 68 Brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, mutual avoidance of, 81 Buduma, the, of Lake Chad, 109 Bugineese, the, of Celebes, 51 Bukaua, tribe of German New Guinea, 82, 131 Bureau of Ethnology in the U.S. America, 175 Burgundians, the, 16 Burma, 119, 130, 134, 135, 138; the Karens of, 44 _sq._ Burning as punishment of sexual crime, 63, 64, 68 Buru, an East Indian island, 109 _n._ 3 Burying alive as punishment, 46, 68, 69 Busoga, 76 Cairbre Musc, Irish legend of, 62 Calabria, superstition as to murderers in, 119 Californian Indians, 83 Cambridge in relation to anthropology, 175 Cameroon negroes, 116 Car Nicobar, rite of purification in, 116 _sq._ Caribs, the, 83 Caroline Islands, rules of ceremonial avoidance in the, 87 _sq._ Cazembes of Angola, 11 Celebes, 68 ---- Central, 12, 29, 30, 52, 53, 122 ---- Southern, 51 Celts of Ireland and Scotland, 17 Central Provinces of India, 33 {179} Ceram, island of, 51; taboo in, 28 ---- Laut Islands, taboo in, 28 _sq._