—— of human victim sprinkled on seed, i. 239, 251; scattered on field, 244, 251 —— of lamb sprinkled on people, ii. 315 —— of slain men tasted by their slayers, ii. 154 _sqq._ Blood-covenant, ii. 154 _sqq._ Boa-constrictor, soul of a, ii. 296 Boa-constrictors, souls of dead in, ii. 289 _sq._ Boar, corn-spirit as, i. 298 _sqq._; the Yule, 300 _sqq._, 302 _sq._; and Adonis, ii. 22 _sq._ Boars, wild, their ravages in the corn, ii. 31 _sqq._ Boba or Baba, name given to the last sheaf, i. 144 _sq._ Bock, C., quoted, i. 8 Boedromion, an Attic month, i. 52, 77 Bogadjim in German New Guinea, ii. 251 Bohemia, harvest customs in, i. 138, 145, 149, 150, 225 _sq._, 232, 286, 289; Carnival custom in, ii. 325; custom as to mice in, 279, 283 Böhmer Wald Mountains, i. 284 Bolivia, ii. 235, 286 Bombay, burial custom in, ii. 100 Bone of old animal eaten to make the eater old, ii. 143 Bones and skulls of enemies destroyed, ii. 260 —— of animals preserved in order that the animals may come to life again, ii. 256 _sqq._; burned or thrown into water, 257; not to be broken, 258 _sq._; not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, 225, 238 _sqq._, 243, 259 —— of the dead, virtues acquired by contact with the, ii. 153 _sq._; preserved for the resurrection, 259 —— of deer not given to the dogs, ii. 241, 242, 243 —— of fish not burned, ii. 250, 251; thrown into the sea or a river, 250, 254; not to be broken, 255 Bontoc, province of Luzon, i. 240 Bordeaux, harvest custom at, i. 291 Bormus or Borimus, i. 216, 257, 264 Borneo, ii. 122; agricultural communities of central, i. 92 Bororos, the, of Brazil, ii. 71 _sq._, 208 Boscana, Father G., ii. 169; quoted, i. 125 Botocudos, the, of Brazil, ii. 156 Bougainville Straits, i. 313 _Bouphonia_, ii. 4 _sqq._ _Bouphonion_, a Greek month, ii. 6 _n._ Bourbourg, Brasseur de, i. 237 Bourke, Captain J. G., ii. 178 _n._ 4 Bouzygai, the, at Eleusis, i. 108 Boxing, i. 71 _n._ 5, ii. 131 Brahman boys sacrificed, i. 244 Brahmans, the, on transubstantiation, ii. 89 Brain, drippings of, used to acquire wisdom of dead, ii. 163 _sq._ Brains of enemies eaten, ii. 152 Brand, John, quoted, i. 146 Brazen serpent, the, ii. 281 Brazil, Indians of, i. 111, ii. 235; their flesh diet, ii. 139 Bridal pair at rice-harvest in Java, i. 200 _sq._ Bride, name given to last sheaf, i. 162, 163 British Columbia, Indians of, ii. 253 Brittany, harvest customs in, i. 135 _Bromios_, epithet of Dionysus, i. 2 _n._ 1 Brooke, Rajah, ii. 211 Brown, Dr. Burton, ii. 100 _n._ 2 Bubui river, in New Guinea, ii. 295 Buckwheat cultivated in Burma, i. 242 Bucolium at Athens, i. 30 Buddha, transmigrations of, ii. 299, 301 Budge, Dr. E. A. Wallis, i. 259 _n._ 3, 260 _n._ 2 Buffalo sacrificed for human victim, i. 249 Buffaloes, propitiation of dead, ii. 229, 231; their death bewailed, 242; revered by the Todas, 314 Bukaua, the, of German New Guinea, i. 103, 105, 313, ii. 124