Bilaspur, custom at, on the death of a Rajah, i. 232 Birch-tree dressed in women’s clothes in Russia at Whitsuntide, i. 77 Births, trees planted at, ii. 229, 230 Bison, resurrection of the, ii. 122, 123 Bithynia, lament by the reapers in, i. 365 Black Lake, i. 15 Blankenfelde, harvest custom in, i. 370 Bleeding trees, i. 61 Blekinge, midsummer ceremonies in, i. 292 Blood, the soul thought to be in the, i. 178, 179; not eaten, _ib._; royal blood not spilt upon the ground, i. 179-183; ill effect of seeing, i. 185, 186; dread of contact with, i. 185-187; primitive dread of menstruous, ii. 238-241 Blood-drinking, inspiration by, i. 34, 35 Boba, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 340, 341 Boeotians of Plataea, festival of the, i. 100-103 Boeroe, ceremony at the rice harvest in, ii. 71 Bohemian midsummer custom, i. 79; ii. 259; Mid-Lent custom, i. 82; Whit Monday custom, i. 91, 244-247; ceremony of carrying out Death, i. 258-260; superstition regarding death, i. 260; ceremony of bringing back summer, i. 263; harvest custom, i. 340; white mice spared in Bohemia, ii. 131, 132; superstition held by poachers in Bohemia, ii. 288 Böhmer Wald Mountains, custom of the reapers in the, ii. 15 Bolang Mongondo, recapture of the soul in, i. 131; preservation of cut hair, i. 203; ceremony at rice harvest in, ii. 71, 72 Bombay, soul superstition in, i. 127 Bones of animals not broken by savages, ii. 124 Boni, king of, and his courtiers, i. 222, 223 Booandik tribe superstition concerning the blood of women, i. 186 Book of the Dead, i. 312 Bormus, the name given to the lament of the Bithynian reapers, i. 365, 398 Borneo, custom in, regarding infested persons, i. 154 Bouphonia, the, ii. 38-41 Brabant, North, Whitsuntide custom in, i. 88 Brahman soul story, i. 128, 129; sin eaters, ii. 156 Brahmans, temple of the, i. 230; transference of sins by the, ii. 200 Brandy, North American Indian theory about, ii. 87 Brazilian Indians, self-beating by the, ii. 215, 216; treatment of girls at the age of puberty by the, ii. 231, 232 Bresse, May customs in, i. 98; ceremony regarding the last sheaf, i. 408 Brest, fire festival at, ii. 261 Breton peasant and the wind, i. 30 Briançon, May-day in the neighbourhood of, i. 95; harvest ceremony at, ii. 11 Bride, a name given to the binder of the last sheaf, i. 345 Brie, May-day custom in, i. 84; harvest custom in, i. 370, 375; burning of mock giant in, ii. 282 Britanny, reaping custom in, i. 335, 336; midsummer fires in, ii. 261 British Columbia, fish ceremony by the Indians of, ii. 121 Bruck, harvest custom in, i. 333, 334 Brüd’s bed in the Highlands, i. 97 Brunnen, Twelfth Night custom at, ii. 182 Brunswick, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 90 Buddhist animism, i. 59 —— Tartar worship, i. 42, 43 Buffalo, belief in the resurrection of the, ii. 123; held sacred by the Todas, ii. 136, 137 —— bull, ii. 19