Baudissin, W. W. Graf von, on Tammuz and Adonis, i. 6 _n._ 1; on Adonis as the personification of the spring vegetation, 228 _n._ 6; on summer festival of Adonis, 232 _n._ Bavaria, gardens of Adonis in, i. 244 Bawenda, the, of South Africa, the positions of their villages hidden, ii. 251 Bearded Venus, in Cyprus, i. 165, ii. 259 _n._ 3 Beaufort, F., on perpetual flame in Lycia, i. 222 _n._ Bechuana ritual at founding a new town, ii. 249 Bechuanas, their sacrifice of a blind bull on various occasions, ii. 249, 250 _sq._ Bede, on the feast of All Saints, ii. 83 Beech, M. W. H., on serpent-worship, i. 85 _Beena_ marriage in Ceylon, ii. 215 Begbie, General, i. 62 _n._ Bel or Marduk at Babylon, i. 71 Belgium, feast of All Souls in, ii. 70 Bellerophon and Pegasus, i. 302 _n._ 4 Bellona and Mars, ii. 231 Ben-hadad, king of Damascus, i. 15 Bendall, Professor C., i. 229 _n._ 1 Benefit of clergy, i. 68 Bengal, the Oraons and Mundas of, i. 46, 240 Benin, human victims crucified at, i. 294 _n._ 3 Bent, J. Theodore, discovers ruins of Olba, i. 151; identifies site of Hieropolis-Castabala, 168 _n._ 1 Berecynthia, title of Cybele, i. 279 _n._ 4 Berenice and Ptolemy, annual festival in their honour, ii. 35 _n._ 1 Bes, Egyptian god, i. 118 _n._ 1 Bethlehem, worship of Adonis at, i. 257 _sqq._; fertility of the neighbourhood, 257 _n._ 3; the Star of, 259 Betsileo of Madagascar, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 83 Bghais, a Karen tribe of Burma, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 60 _sq._ Bhâdon, Indian month, i. 243 Bharbhunjas, of the Central Provinces, India, marriage custom of the, ii. 262 Bharias, of the Central Provinces, India, exchange of costume between men and women at marriage among the, ii. 260 _sq._ Bhujariya, festival in the Central Provinces of India, i. 242 Bilaspore, infant burial in, i. 94 _sq._; annual festival of the dead in, ii. 60 Bion on the scarlet anemone, i. 226 _n._ 1 Bird, soul of a tree in a, ii. 111 _n._ 1 —— called “the soul of Osiris,” ii. 110 Birds burnt in honour of Artemis, i. 126 _n._ 2; white, souls of dead kings incarnate in, ii. 162 Birks, Rev. E. B., on harvest custom at Orwell, i. 237 _n._ 4 Birth, new, through blood in rites of Attis, i. 274 _sq._; of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, ii. 153, 155 _sq._ Birthday of the Sun, the twenty-fifth of December, i. 303 _sqq._ Bisa chiefs reincarnated in pythons, ii. 193 Bishnois of the Punjaub, infant burial among the, i. 94 Bithynians invoke Attis, i. 282 Black-snake clan, i. 100 _Blay_, men’s clubhouse in the Pelew Islands, ii. 265 Blekinge, province of Sweden, Midsummer custom in, i. 251 Blind bull sacrificed at the foundation of a town, ii. 249; sacrificed before an army going to war, 250