Bohemia, water and fire consecrated at Easter in, i. 123 _sq._; bonfires on May Day in, 159; Midsummer fires in, 173 _sqq._; need-fire in, 278 _sq._; charm to make corn grow high in, 340; offering to water-spirits on Midsummer Eve in, ii. 28; simples gathered on St. John’s Night in, 49; divination by means of flowers on Midsummer Eve in, 52 _sq._; mugwort at Midsummer in, 59; elder-flowers gathered at Midsummer in, 64; wild thyme gathered on Midsummer Day in, 64; fern-seed at Midsummer in, 66; “thunder besoms” in, 85; fern-seed on St. John’s Day in, 287, 288 Bohemian poachers, their use of vervain, ii. 62; their use of seeds of fir-cones, 64 —— story of the external soul, ii. 110 Bohus, Midsummer fires in, i. 172 _Boidès_, bonfires, i. 111 _n._ 1 Boiling bewitched animal or part of it to compel witch to appear, i. 321 _sq._, 323 —— milk, omens drawn from, ii. 8 —— resin, ordeal of, i. 311 Boils, crawling under a bramble as a cure for, ii. 180 Bolivia, the Chiriguanos of, i. 56; the Yuracares of, 57 _sq._; fires on St. John’s Eve in, 213; La Paz in, ii. 50 Boloki of the Upper Congo, birth-plants among the, ii. 161 _sq._; use of bull-roarers among the, 229 _n._ Bondeis of German East Africa, rites of initiation among the, ii. 263 _sq._ Bone used to point with in sorcery, i. 14; incident of, in folk-tales, 73 _n._ 3; of bird (eagle or swan), women at menstruation obliged to drink out of, 45, 48, 49, 50, 73 _n._ 3, 90, 92 Bones burnt in the Easter bonfires, i. 142; burnt in Midsummer fires, 203 —— of dead husbands carried by their widows, i. 91 _n._ 4 Bonfire Day in County Leitrim, i. 203 Bonfires supposed to protect against conflagrations, i. 107, 108; protect houses against lightning and conflagration, 344; lit by the persons last married, 107, 109; a protection against witchcraft, 108, 109, 154; a protection against sickness, 108, 109; a protection against sorcery, 156; quickening and fertilizing influence of, 336 _sqq._; omens of marriage drawn from, 338 _sq._; protect fields against hail, 344; at festivals in India, ii. 1 _sqq._ _See also_ Fires Bonfires, Midsummer, intended to drive away dragons, i. 161; protect cattle against witchcraft, 188; thought to ensure good crops, 188, 336 Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, i. 270 Bonnach stone in a Celtic story, ii. 126 _Bordes_, bonfires, i. 111 _n._ 1, 113 Borlase, William, on Midsummer fires in Cornwall, i. 199 Borneo, festivals in, i. 13; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 35 _sq._; birth-custom in, ii. 154 _sq._; trees and plants as life-indices in, 164 _sq._; creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral in, 175 _sq._; giving the slip to an evil spirit in, 179 _sq._ ——, the Dyaks of, i. 5, ii. 222 ——, the Kayans of, i. 4 _sq._ Bororo of Brazil, their use of bull-roarers, ii. 230 _n._ Borrow, witches come to, i. 322, 323, ii. 73