Bathing in the sea at Easter, i. 123; at Midsummer, 208, 210, 216, ii. 29 _sq._; thought to be dangerous on Midsummer Day, 26 _sq._ Bats, the lives of men in, ii. 215 _sq._, 217; called men’s “brothers,” 215, 216, 218 Battas, their doctrine of the plurality of souls, ii. 223; their totemic system, 224 _sqq._ Battel, Andrew, on the colour of negro children at birth, ii. 251 _n._ 1 Bavaria, Easter bonfires in, i. 143 _sq._; belief as to eclipses in, 162; Midsummer fires in, 164 _sqq._; leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer in, ii. 26; the divining-rod in, 67 _sq._; creeping through a holed stone or narrow opening in, 188 _sq._ ——, Upper, use of mistletoe in, ii. 85 _n._ 4 Bavarian peasants, their belief as to hazel, ii. 69 _n._ Bavili, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 31 Beal-fires on Midsummer Eve in Yorkshire, i. 198 Bean, King of the, i. 153 _n._ 1 Beans, divination by, i. 209 Bear, external soul of warrior in a, ii. 151; Basque hunter transformed into, 226, 270; simulated transformation of novice into a, 274 _sq._ —— clan, ii. 271, 272 _n._ 1 —— -dance of man who pretends to be a bear, ii. 274 Bear’s skin, Lapp women shoot blindfold at a, ii. 280 _n._ Bearers to carry royal personages, i. 3 _sq._ Beating girls at puberty, i. 61, 66 _sq._; as a form of purification, 61, 64 _sqq._ Beauce, festival of torches in, i. 113; story of a were-wolf in, 309 —— and Perche, Midsummer fires in, i. 188 Beaver clan, ii. 272 Bechuana belief as to sympathetic relation of man to wounded crocodile, ii. 210 _sq._ Bee, external soul of an ogre in a, ii. 101 Beech or fir used to make the Yule log, i. 249 —— -tree burnt in Lenten bonfire, i. 115 _sq._ Beeches, struck by lightning, proportion of, ii. 298 _sq._; free from mistletoe, 315 Bees thought to be killed by menstruous women, i. 96; ashes of bonfires used to cure ailments of, 142 Beetle, external soul in a, ii. 138, 140 Begetting novices anew at initiation, pretence of, ii. 248 Behar, the fire-walk in, ii. 5 _Beifuss_, German name for mugwort, ii. 60 _n._ 6 Bel, the fires of, i. 147, 157, 158 _sq._ Beleth, John, his _Rationale Divinorum Officiorum_ quoted, i. 161 _n._ 2 Belford, in Northumberland, the Yule log at, i. 256 Belgium, Lenten fires in, i. 107 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, 194 _sq._; the Yule log in, 249; bathing on Midsummer Day in, ii. 30; divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, 53; mugwort gathered on St. John’s Day or Eve in, 59 _sq._; vervain gathered on St. John’s Day in, 62; four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, 63; the witches’ Sabbath in, 73 Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 46; custom of mourners among the, ii. 174 Belli-Paaro society in West Africa, rites of initiation in the, ii. 257 _sqq._ Bellochroy, i. 290 Bells worn by priest in exorcism, i. 5; on his legs, ii. 8