Blood, bath of bull’s, in the rites of Attis, i. 274 _sqq._; remission of sins through the shedding of, 299; used in expiation for homicide, 299 _n._ 2; of pig used in exorcism and purification, 299 _n._ 2; not to be shed in certain sacrifices, ii. 222 _n._ 2 Blood, the Day of, in the festival of Attis, i. 268, 285 Blowing of Trumpets in the festival of Attis, i. 268 Blue Spring, the, at Syracuse, i. 213 _n._ 1 Boar, Attis killed by a, i. 264 Bocage of Normandy, rule as to the clipping of wool in the, ii. 134 _n._ 3 Bodies of the dead, magical uses made of the, ii. 100 _sqq._; guarded against mutilation, 103; thought to be endowed with magical powers, 103, 104 _sq._ Bodroum in Cilicia, ruins of, i. 167 Boghaz-Keui, Hittite capital, excavations of H. Winckler at, i. 125 _n._; situation and remains, 128 _sqq._; the gods of, 128 _sqq._; rock-hewn sculptures at, 129 _sqq._ Bohemia, May-pole or Midsummer-tree in, i. 250; feast of All Souls in, ii. 72 _sq._ Bolivia, the Chiriguanos Indians of, ii. 143 _n._ 4, 145 Boloki, or Bangala, of the Upper Congo, their ceremonies at the new moon, ii. 143; attempt to deceive spirit of disease among the, 262 Bones of the dead used in rain-making ceremonies, i. 22; of dead kings carried off or destroyed by enemies, ii. 103 _sq._ ——, fossil, source of myths about giants, i. 157 _sq._ Bonfire on St. John’s Eve, dances round it, i. 245 _Book of the Dead_, ii. 13 Bor, the ancient Tyana, Hittite monument at, i. 122 _n._ 1 Borneo, custom of head-hunting in, i. 294 _sqq._; effeminate sorcerers in, ii. 253, 256 Bosanquet, Professor R. C., on the Four-handed Apollo, ii. 250 _n._ 2 Bosman, W., on serpent-worship, i. 67 Bouche, Abbé, on West African priestesses, i. 66 _n._ 3, 69 Boys of living parents in ritual, ii. 236 _sqq._; dressed as girls to avert the Evil Eye, 260; marriage customs to ensure the birth of, 262 Brahman marriage in Southern India, bride dressed as a boy at, ii. 260 Brazil, the Apinagos Indians of, ii. 145 _sqq._ Brazilian Indians, their belief in the noxious influence of the moon on children, ii. 148 Bread, fast from, in mourning for Attis, i. 272 Breasted, Professor J. H., on the eye of Horus, ii. 121 _n._ 3; on Amenophis IV., 123 _n._ 1; on the Sed festival, 156 _n._ 1 Breath not to defile sacred flame, i. 191 Brethren of the Ploughed Fields (_Fratres Arvales_), a Roman college of priests, ii. 239. _See also_ Arval Brethren “Bride” of the Nile, ii. 38 —— and Bridegroom at Midsummer in Sweden, i. 251 Bridegroom disfigured in order to avert the evil eye, ii. 261 British Columbia, the Indians of, respect the animals and plants which they eat, ii. 44 Brittany, feast of All Souls in, ii. 69; belief as to warts and the moon in, 149 Bromo, volcano in Java, worshipped, i. 220 _sq._ Brother of a god, i. 51; dead elder, worshipped, ii. 175