Balder, his body burnt, i. 102; worshipped in Norway, 104; camomile sacred to, ii. 63; burnt at Midsummer, 87; Midsummer sacred to, 87; a tree-spirit or deity of vegetation, 88 _sq._; interpreted as a mistletoe-bearing oak, 93 _sq._; his invulnerability, 94; why Balder was thought to shine, 293 —— and the mistletoe, i. 101 _sq._, ii. 76 _sqq._, 302; his life or death in the mistletoe, 279, 283; perhaps a real man deified, 314 _sq._ ——, the myth of, i. 101 _sqq._; reproduced in the Midsummer festival of Scandinavia, ii. 87; perhaps dramatized in ritual, 88; Indian parallel to, 280; African parallels to, 312 _sqq._ Balder’s Balefires, name formerly given to Midsummer bonfires in Sweden, i. 172, ii. 87 —— Grove, i. 104, ii. 315 _Balders-brâ_, Balder’s eyelashes, a name for camomile, ii. 63 Bâle, Lenten fire-custom in the canton of, i. 119 Balefires, Balder’s, at Midsummer in Sweden, i. 172 Bali, filing of teeth in, i. 68 _n._ 2; birth-trees in, ii. 164 Balkan Peninsula, need-fire in the, i. 281 Ball, game of, played to determine the King of Summer, i. 195 Ballyvadlea, in Tipperary, woman burnt as a witch at, i. 323 _sq._ Balnagown loch, in Lismore, i. 316 Balong of the Cameroons, their external souls in animals, ii. 203 Balquhidder, hill of the fires at, i. 149; Hallowe’en bonfires at, 232 _Balum_, New Guinea word signifying bull-roarer, ghost, and mythical monster, ii. 242 Banana-tree, afterbirth of child buried under a, ii. 162, 163, 164 Bancroft, H. H., on the external souls of the Zapotecs, ii. 212 Banivas of the Orinoco, their scourging of girls at puberty, i. 66 _sqq._ _Baraka_, blessed or magical virtue, i. 216, 218, ii. 51 Barclay, Sheriff, on Hallowe’en fires, i. 232 Bardney bumpkin, on witch as hare, i. 318 Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of the, ii. 129 _sq._ Barker, W. G. M. Jones, on need-fire in Yorkshire, i. 286 _sq._ Barley plant, external soul of prince in a, ii. 102 Ba-Ronga, the, of South Africa, their story of a clan whose external souls were in a cat, ii. 150 _sq._ Barotse or Marotse of the Zambesi, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 28, 29 Barren cattle driven through fire, i. 203, 338 —— women hope to conceive through fertilizing influence of vegetables, ii. 51 Barricading the road against a ghostly pursuer, ii. 176 Barsana, in North India, Holi bonfires at, ii. 2, 5 Bartle Bay, in British New Guinea, festival of the wild mango tree at, i. 7 _sqq._ Basque hunter transformed into bear, ii. 226, 270 —— story of the external soul, ii. 139 Bastar, province of India, treatment of witches in, ii. 159 Bastian, Adolph, on rites of initiation in West Africa, ii. 256 _sq._ Basutos, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 31 Bata and Anpu, ancient Egyptian story of, ii. 134 _sqq._