Bosnia, need-fire in, i. 286; life-trees of children in, ii. 165 Bossuet, Bishop, on the Midsummer bonfires, i. 182 Bottesford, in Lincolnshire, mistletoe deemed a remedy for epilepsy at, ii. 83 Bottle, external soul of queen in a, ii. 138 Bougainville, use of bull-roarers in, ii. 229 _n._ Bough, the Golden, ii. 279 _sqq._; and the priest of Aricia, i. 1; a branch of mistletoe, ii. 284 _sqq._, 315 _sqq._ _See also_ Golden Bough Boulia district of Queensland, i. 14 Bourbonnais, mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy in, ii. 83 _Bourdifailles_, bonfires, i. 111 _n._ 1 Bourke, Captain J. G., on the bull-roarer, ii. 231 Bowels, novice at initiation supplied by spirits with a new set of, ii. 235 _sqq._ Bowes, in Yorkshire, need-fire at, i. 287 Box, external soul of king in a, ii. 102, 149; external soul of cannibal in a, 117 Boxes or arks, sacred, i. 11 _sq._ Box-tree, external soul of giant in a, ii. 133 Boxwood blessed on Palm Sunday, i. 184, ii. 47 Boy and girl produce need-fire by friction of wood, i. 281 Boys at initiation thought to be swallowed by wizards, ii. 233 Brabant, Midsummer fires in, i. 194; St. Peter’s bonfires in, 195; wicker giants in, ii. 35 Bracelets as amulets, i. 92 Braemar Highlanders, their Hallowe’en fires, i. 233 _sq._ Brahman, the Hindoo creator, i. 95 Brahman called “twice born,” ii. 276 —— boys forbidden to see the sun, i. 68 _n._ 2 —— student, his observances at end of his studentship, i. 20 Brahmanic ritual at inauguration of a king, i. 4 Bramble, crawling under a, as a cure for whooping-cough, etc., ii. 180 Brand, John, on the Yule log, i. 247, 255 Brandenburg, simples culled at Midsummer in, ii. 48 _Brandons_, the Sunday of the, i. 110; torches carried about fields and streets, 111 _n._ 1 Brands of Midsummer fires a protection against lightning, conflagration, and spells, i. 183; a protection against thunder, 191; lighted, carried round cattle, 341 Braunrode in the Harz Mountains, Easter fires at, i. 142 Brazier, walking through a lighted, ii. 3 _sqq._ Brazil, the Guaranis of, i. 56; seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, 56, 59 _sq._; the Uaupes of, 61; ordeals undergone by young men among the Indians of, 62 _sq._; effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, 128; fires of St. John in, 213; the Caripunas of, ii. 230; the Bororo of, 230 _n._; the Nahuqua of, 230; the Bakairi of, 231 Bread, reverence for, i. 13 Breadalbane, i. 149; treatment of mad cow in, 326 Breadfruit-tree planted over navel-string of child, ii. 163 “Breath, scoring above the,” cutting a witch on the forehead, i. 315 _n._ 2 Breitenbrunn, the “Charcoal Man” at, ii. 26 _n._ 2 Brekinjska, in Slavonia, need-fire at, i. 282 Bresse, Midsummer bonfires in, i. 189 Brest, Midsummer fire-custom at, i. 184 Breteuil, canton of, Midsummer fires in the, i. 187 Breton belief that women can be impregnated by the moon, i. 76