Augustine, i. 88 Augustus celebrates games at Actium, i. 80 Australia, totemism in, ii. 311 —— Northern, ii. 145 Australian aborigines, i. 126, 307 _sq._; their mutilations of the dead, ii. 272 Australians, the Central, ii. 165 Austria, harvest customs in, i. 276, 292 Awe, Loch, i. 142 Awemba, the, i. 115; of Northern Rhodesia, ii. 272 _sq._ Ayrshire, harvest customs in, i. 279 Aztecs, their festival at end of fifty-two years, i. 310 _sq._; eating the god among the, ii. 86 _sqq._ Baba or Boba, name given to last sheaf, i. 144 _sq._; “the Old Woman,” at the Carnival, ii. 332, 333 Bacchanals of Thrace, i. 17 Badagas, the, ii. 55 Baden, harvest customs in, i. 283, 286, 292, 298 Baganda, the, i. 118, ii. 64, 70 _n._ 1, 227, 253, 271 _sq._; their offerings of first-fruits, 113; their fear of the ghosts of animals, 231 _sq._ Bagobos, the, ii. 124; of Mindanao, i. 240 Bahaus or Kayans of central Borneo, i. 92 _sqq._ _See_ Kayans Bahima, their belief in transmigration, ii. 288 Bakongs, a tribe of Borneo, ii. 294 Bakundu of the Cameroons, burial custom of the, ii. 99 Bali, i. 314, ii. 278; rice spirit in, i. 201 _sqq._ Ball, game of, played as a rite, ii. 76, 79 Balquhidder, cutting the Maiden at, i. 157 _Balum_, spirits of the dead, i. 104 Ba-Mbala, the, i. 119 Bananas, cultivated by women, i. 115, 118; cultivated in South America, 120, 121; cultivated in New Britain, 123; cultivated in New Guinea, 123; soul of dead man in, ii. 298 Banars, the, of Cambodia, ii. 33 Bangala, the, i. 119 Banks’ islanders, i. 313 —— Islands, burial custom in the, ii. 97 Barley awarded as a prize in the Eleusinian games, i. 73, 74, 75; oldest cereal cultivated by the Aryans, 132 —— Bride among the Berbers, i. 178 _sq._ —— -cow, i. 289, 290 —— -mother, the, i. 131, 135 —— -sow, i. 298 —— -wolf, i. 271, 273 Baronga, the, ii. 280; women’s part in agriculture among the, i. 114 _sq._ Barotsé, the, i. 115, ii. 159 Bassari, the, ii. 116 _Bassia latifolia_, ii. 119 Bastian, Adolph, quoted, ii. 313 Basutoland, i. 116; inoculation in, ii. 158, 160 Basutos, the, ii. 148; their customs as to the new corn, 110 Batari Sri, a goddess, i. 202 Batchelor, Rev. J., ii. 180 _n._ 2, 182 _n._ 2, 183, 184, 186 _n._, 198, 201 Bathing forbidden, i. 94 Bats, souls of dead in, ii. 287 Battas or Bataks of Sumatra, i. 196, 315, ii. 293; their ceremonies at catching tigers, 216 _sq._ Battle, mock, ii. 75 Bavaria, harvest customs in, i. 147, 221 _sq._, 232, 282, 286, 287, 289, 296, 298, 299 Bean-cock, i. 276 —— -goat, i. 282 Beans, Spirit of, i. 177; cultivated in Burma, 242; forbidden as food by Empedocles, ii. 301 Bear, importance of the, for people of Siberia, ii. 191; ambiguous attitude of the Aino towards the, 310 _sq._; the corn-spirit as a, 325 _sqq._ —— -cats, souls of dead in, ii. 294 —— -dances, ii. 191, 195