—— -Ronga, the, of South Africa, their women employ a child under puberty to light the potter’s kiln, ii. 205. _See_ Baronga —— -Sundi, a tribe of the Congo, v. 271 _n._ —— -Thonga, the, of South Africa, grave-diggers not allowed to handle food among the, iii. 141; women in childbed not allowed to handle food, iii. 148 _sq._; attribute drought to concealed miscarriage in childbed, iii. 154; their continence in war, iii. 163; continence at building a new village among the, iii. 202; their belief as to a woman stepping over their legs, iii. 424. _See also_ Thonga —— -Yaka, tribe of the Congo State, power of magicians among the, i. 348; custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 _n._ 1; their use of nail-parings in making treaties, iii. 274 —— -Yanzi, tribe of the Congo State, the chief as a magician among the, i. 348 _sq._ Baal, Semitic god, in relation to Minos and Minotaur, iv. 75; the prophets of, their cutting themselves with knives, i. 258; human sacrifices to, iv. 167 _sqq._, 195, ix. 353, 354; kings claiming affinity with, v. 15; royal names compounded with, v. 16; as the god of fertility, v. 26 _sq._; conceived as god who fertilizes land by subterranean water, v. 159 —— and Beltane, x. 149 _n._ 1, 150 _n._ 1, 157 —— of the Lebanon, v. 32 —— and Sandan at Tarsus, v. 142 _sq._, 161 Baal of Tarsus, v. 117 _sqq._, 162 _sq._ Baalath or Astarte, v. 26, 34 —— and Baal, v. 27 —— Gebal, v. 14 Baalbec (Heliopolis), in Syria, v. 28; the ruins at, i. 30 _n._ 3; sacred prostitution at, v. 37; image of Hadad at, v. 163 Baalim, the, lords of underground waters, ii. 159; firstlings and first-fruits offered to the, v. 27; called lovers, v. 75 _n._ Baba or Boba, name given to last sheaf, vii. 144 _sq._; “the Old Woman,” at the Carnival, viii. 332, 333 _Babalawo_, a Yoruba priest, ix. 212 Babar Archipelago, ceremony to obtain a child for a barren woman in the, i. 72; chastity and fasting of women during absence of warriors in the, i. 131; treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 186; saturnalia at the marriage of the Sun and Earth in the, ii. 99; recovery of lost souls in the, iii. 67; souls as shadows in the, iii. 78; fatigue transferred to stones in the, ix. 8 _sq._; sickness expelled in a boat from the, ix. 187 Babaruda, girl as rain-maker in Roumania, i. 273 Babine Lake in British Columbia, x. 47 Babites, a Persian sect, their divine head, i. 402 Baboons, their depredations on crops, viii. 32; sent by evil spirits, ix. 110 _sq._ Baby, effigy of, used to fertilize women, ix. 245, 249