Bagobos of the Philippine Islands, their theory of earthquakes, i. 200; of Mindanao, their custom of hanging and spearing human victims, 290 _sq._ Baharutsis, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, ii. 179 Bahima, their belief as to dead kings and chiefs, i. 83 _n._ 1 —— of Ankole in Central Africa, their worship of the dead, ii. 190 _sq._; their belief in a supreme god Lugaba, 190 —— of Kiziba, ii. 173 Baigas, Dravidian tribe of India, their objection to agriculture, i. 89 Bailly, French astronomer, on the Arctic origin of the rites of Adonis, i. 229 Bairu, the, of Kiziba, ii. 173 Baku, on the Caspian, perpetual fires at, i. 192 Balinese, their conduct in an earthquake, i. 198 _Baloi_, witches and wizards, ii. 104 Banana, women impregnated by the flower of the, i. 93 Bangalas of the Congo, rebirth of dead among the, i. 92. _See also_ Boloki Bantu tribes, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82 _sqq._; their worship of ancestral spirits, ii. 174 _sqq._; their main practical religion a worship of ancestors, 176 _sqq._; their worship of the dead, 176 _sqq._, 191 _sqq._ Banyoro, their worship of serpents, i. 86 _n._ 1 Baptism of bull’s blood in the rites of Cybele, i. 274 _sqq._ Bar-rekub, king of Samal, i. 15 _sq._ Baralongs, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, ii. 179 Barea and Kunama, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 66 Barley forced for festival, i. 240, 241, 242, 244, 251 _sq._ —— and wheat discovered by Isis, ii. 116 Barotse, a Bantu tribe of the Zambesi, their belief in a supreme god Niambe, ii. 193; their worship of dead kings, 194 _sq._ Barren women resort to graves in order to get children, i. 90; entice souls of dead children to them, 94 Barrenness of women cured by passing through holed stone, i. 36, with _n._ 4; removed by serpent, 86; children murdered as a remedy for, 95 Barrows of Halfdan, ii. 100 Barsom, bundle of twigs used by Parsee priests, i. 191 _n._ 2 Barth, H., on sculptures at BoghazKeui, i. 133 _n._ 1 Basil, pots of, on St. John’s Day in Sicily, i. 245 Basuto chiefs buried secretly, ii. 104 Basutos, worship of the dead among the, ii. 179 _sq._ Bataks of Sumatra, their theory of earthquakes, i. 199 _sq._ Batara-guru, the Batak creator, i. 199 _sq._ Bath in river at the rites of Cybele, i. 273, 274 _n._; of bull’s blood in the rites of Attis, 274 _sqq._; of image of Cybele perhaps a rain-charm, 280 —— of Aphrodite, i. 280 —— of Demeter, i. 280 —— of Hera in the river Burrha, i. 280; in the spring of Canathus, 280 Bathing on St. John’s Day or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), i. 246 _sqq._; pagan origin of the custom, 249 Baths of Hercules, i. 212 —— of Solomon in Moab, i. 215 Batoo Bedano, an earthquake god, i. 202 Battle, purificatory ceremonies after a, ii. 251 _sq._ —— of the gods and giants, i. 157