—— -festivals of the Aino, ii. 182 _sqq._; of the Gilyaks, 190 _sqq._; of the Goldi, 197; of the Orotchis, 197 —— -skin worn by woman dancer, ii. 223 —— the Great, constellation, i. 315 Bear’s liver, i. 187 _sq._; heart eaten, ii. 146 “Beard of Volos,” i. 233 Bears killed ceremonially by the Aino, ii. 180 _sqq._; souls of dead in, 286 _sq._; processions with, in Europe, 326 _n._ 3 —— slain, propitiated by Kamtchatkans, Ostiaks, Koryak, Finns, and Lapps, ii. 222 _sqq._; by American Indians, 224 _sqq._ Beating a man clad in a cow’s hide, ii. 322 _sqq._ —— boys with leg-bone of eagle-hawk, ii. 165 _n._ 2 —— effigy of ox with rods in China, ii. 11 _sq._ —— people for good luck, i. 309 Beavers, their bones not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, ii. 238 _sqq._ Bechuanas, the, i. 316, ii. 28, 164; their ceremonies before eating the new fruits, 69 _sq._; ceremony observed after a battle by the, 271 Beer in relation to Dionysus, i. 2 _n._ 1 Bees, transmigration of quiet people into, ii. 308 Beetles, superstitious precautions against, ii. 279, 280 Beggar, name given to last sheaf, i. 231 _sq._ Beku, the, of West Africa, ii. 163 Bells worn by mummers, i. 26, 28, ii. 332, 333; attached to hobby-horse, 337 _sq._ Benin, ii. 64; human sacrifice at, i. 240 Bera Pennu, the Earth Goddess, i. 245 Berbers, the Barley Bride among the, i. 178 _sq._ Berosus, Babylonian historian, i. 258 _sq._ Berry, harvest customs in, i. 292, 294 Berwickshire, harvest customs in, i. 153 _sq._ Bessy, one of the mummers on Plough Monday, ii. 329, 331 Betsileo, the, of Madagascar, ii. 116; their belief in the transmigration of souls, 289 _sq._ Bhils, the, of Central India, ii. 29 Bhímsen, an Indian deity, ii. 118 Bhumiya, a Himalayan deity, ii. 117 Bhutan, ii. 103 Biennial cycle, i. 87 —— festivals, i. 14, i. 86 Binder of last sheaf represents the Corn-mother, i. 150, 253 Binders of corn, contests between, i. 136, 137, 138, 218 _sq._, 220, 221, 222, 253 Binding the corn, contests in, i. 218 _sq._ _Binsenschneider_, i. 230 _n._ 5 Bird, soul as a, i. 181, 182 _n._ 1; corn-spirit as a, 295 _sq._ —— of prey, inoculation with a, ii. 162 Birds, migratory, as representatives of a divinity, i. 204 _sq._; language of, ii. 146; tongues of, eaten, 147 Birth of child on harvest-field, pretended, i. 150 _sq._ Bisaltae, a Thracian tribe, i. 5 Bizya in Thrace, i. 26, 30 Black Drink, an emetic, ii. 76 —— Goat-skin, in relation to Dionysus, i. 17 Blackened faces, i. 291, 299; of actors, 27 Blackfeet Indians, i. 311, ii. 236 Bladders of sea-beasts returned by the Esquimaux to the sea, ii. 247 _sqq._ Blindfolded, reapers, i. 144, 153 _sq._ Blood drawn from men as a religious rite, ii. 75, 91 _sq._; as a means of communion with a deity, 316 —— of bear drunk, ii. 146 —— of beavers not allowed to fall on ground, ii. 240 _n._ 2 —— of dragon, ii. 146