Brothers and sisters, marriages of, in royal families, i. 44; in ancient Egypt, ii. 214 _sqq._; their intention to keep the property in the family, 215 _sq._ Brown, A. R., on the beliefs of the West Australian aborigines as to the causes of childbirth, i. 104 _sqq._ Brown, Dr. George, on snakes as reincarnations of chiefs, i. 84 Bruges, feast of All Souls in, ii. 70 Brugsch, H., on Egyptian names for a year, ii. 26 _n._ 1; on the Sothic period, 37 _n._; on the grave of Osiris at Philae, 111; on Isis as a personified corn-field, 117 Buddha and Buddhism, ii. 159 Buddhism, spiritual declension of, i. 310 _sq._ Budge, Dr. E. A. Wallis, on goddess Net, i. 282 _n._; on an Egyptian funeral rite, ii. 15 _n._ 2; on Isis, 115 _sq._; on the nature of Osiris, 126 _n._ 2; on the solar theory of Osiris, 131 _n._ 3; on the historical reality of Osiris, 160 _n._ 1; on Khenti-Amenti, 198 _n._ 2 Buduna tribe of West Australia, their beliefs as to the birth of children, i. 104 _sq._ Bugis of South Celebes, effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, ii. 253 _sq._ Bulgaria, marriage customs in, ii. 246 Bull as emblem of generative force, i. 123; worshipped by the Hittites, 123, 132; emblem of Hittite thunder-god, 134 _sqq._; Hittite god standing on a, 135; as emblem of a thunder-god, 136; as symbol of thunder and fertility, 163 _sq._; the emblem of the Father God, 164; worshipped at Euyuk, 164; testicles of, used in rites of Cybele and Attis, 276; sacrificed at Egyptian funeral, ii. 15; white, soul of dead king incarnate in a, 164; sacrificed to prolong the life of a king, 222; sacrificed to Zeus, the Saviour of the City, 238; blinded and sacrificed at the foundation of a town, 249 Bull’s blood, bath of, in the rites of Attis, i. 274 _sq._ —— hide cut in strips and pegged down round the site of a new town, ii. 249; bride seated on a, 246 —— skin, body of the dead placed in a, ii. 15 _n._ 2 Bulls, husband-god at Hierapolis seated on, i. 163 —— sacrificed at caves of Pluto, i. 206; sacrificed to Persephone, 213 _n._ 1; sacrificed to dead chiefs, ii. 191 Burial at cross-roads, i. 93 _n._ 1 —— of infants to ensure their rebirth, i. 91, 93 _sqq._; at Gezer, 108 _sq._; of Osiris in his rites, ii. 88 Burma, the Bghais of, ii. 60 Burmese, their conduct during an earthquake, i. 201 Burne, Miss C. S., and Miss G. F. Jackson on “Souling Day” in Shropshire, ii. 78 _sq._ Burning of Melcarth, i. 110 _sqq._; of Sandan, 117 _sqq._; of Cilician gods, 170 _sq._; of Sardanapalus, 172 _sqq._; of Croesus, 174 _sqq._; of a god, 188 _sq._ Burnings for dead kings of Judah, i. 177 _sq._; for dead Jewish Rabbis at Meiron, 178 Burns, Robert, on John Barleycorn, i. 230 _sq._ Burnt alive, apotheosis by being, i. 179 _sq._ —— Land of Lydia, i. 193 _sq._ Burrha, river, Hera’s bath in the, i. 280