Beast, the number of the, 44 Beating cattle to make them fat or fruitful, 236 Beauty and the Beast type of tale, 125 _sqq._ Bedouins, annual festival of the Sinaitic, 97 Behar, custom of swinging in, 279 Beheading the King, a Whitsuntide pageant in Bohemia, 209 _sq._ Bengal, kings of, their rule of succession, 51 Bengkali, East Indian island, 277 Benin, king of, represented with panther’s whiskers, 85 _sq._; human sacrifices at the burial of a king of, 139 _sq._ Berosus, Babylonian historian, 113 Berry, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, 241 _sq._ Bhagats, mock human sacrifices among the, 217 _sq._ Bhuiyas, the, of north-eastern India, 56 Bilaspur, temporary rajah in, 154 Birds of omen, stories of their origin, 126, 127 _sq._ Black, Dr. J. Sutherland, 260 _sq._ Black bull sacrificed to the dead, 95 —— ox, bath of blood of, 201 —— ram sacrificed to Pelops, 92, 104 Bland, J. O. P., 274 _sq._ Blemishes, bodily, a ground for putting kings to death, 36 _sqq._ Blood of victims in rain-making ceremonies, 20; bath of ox, 35; human, offered to the dead, 92 _sq._, 104; of sacrifice splashed on door-posts, house-posts, etc., 175, 176 _n._1; of human victims smeared on faces of idols, 185 Boemus, J., 234 Bohemia, Whitsuntide mummers in, 209 _sqq._; “Carrying out Death” in, 237 _sq._ Bones of sacrificial victim not broken, 20 Bonfire, jumping over, 262 Boni, in Celebes, 40 Book of Acaill, 39 Borans, their custom of sacrificing their children, 181 Bororos, the, of Brazil, 62 Bourges, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, 242 Bourke, Captain J. G., 215 Boxers at funerals, 97 Brahmans, the ceremonial swinging of, 150, 156 _sq._ Braller in Transylvania, 230; “Carrying out Death” at, 247 _sqq._ Brasidas, funeral games in his honour, 94 Brazilian Indians, their indifference to death, 138 Breezes, magical means of securing, 287 Bridegroom of the May, 266 Bringing in Summer, 233, 237, 238, 246 _sqq._ Britomartis and Minos, 73 Brittany, Burial of Shrove Tuesday or of the Carnival in, 229 _sq._ Brockelmann, C., 116 Bronze ploughs used by Etruscans at founding cities, 157 Brother and sister marriages in royal families, 193 _sq._ Buddhist monks, suicide of, 42 _sq._ Budge, E. A. Wallis, 5 _n._3 Buginese of Celebes, their custom of swinging, 277 Bull, Pasiphae and the, 71; as symbol of the sun, 71 _sq._; the brazen, of Phalaris, 75; said to have guided the Samnites, 186 _n._4 —— and cow, represented by masked actors, 71 Bull-headed image of the sun, 75, 76, 78 Burgebrach in Bavaria, straw-man burnt on Ash Wednesday at, 232 Burial alive of the aged, 11 _sq._; in jars, 12 _sq._; of infants to secure rebirth, 199 _sq._; of Shrove Tuesday, 228 Burning an effigy of the Carnival, 223, 224, 228 _sq._, 229 _sq._, 232 _sq._ —— effigies of Shrove Tuesday, 227 _sqq._; of Winter at Zurich, 260 _sq._ “Burying the Carnival,” 209, 220 _sqq._ Busoga, mock human sacrifice in, 215