Babylon, magical images in ancient, i. 66 _sq._; theocratic despotism of ancient, i. 218; sanctuary of Bel at, ii. 129 _sq._; festival of Zagmuk at, iv. 110, 113, 115 _sqq._; festival of the Sacaea at, iv. 113 _sqq._, ix. 354 _sqq._; early kings of, worshipped as gods, v. 15; worship of Mylitta at, v. 36; religious prostitution at, v. 58; human wives of Marduk at, v. 71; sanctuary of Serapis at, vi. 119 _n._ Babylonia, worship of Tammuz in, v. 6 _sqq._; the moon-god took precedence of the sun-god in ancient, vi. 138 _sq._; belief in demons in ancient, ix. 102 _sq._; the star-gazers of, ix. 326; conquered by Assyria, ix. 356; the feast of Purim in, ix. 393 Babylonian calendar, ix. 398 _n._ 2 —— Genesis, ix. 410 —— gods, mortality of the, iv. 5 _sq._ —— hymns to Tammuz, v. 9 —— kings, divinity of the early, i. 417 —— legend of creation, iv. 105 _sq._, 110 —— myth of Marduk and Tiamat, iv. 105 _sq._, 107 _sq._ Babylonian witches and wizards, their use of knotted cords, iii. 302 Bacchanalia, Purim a Jewish, ix. 363 Bacchanals of Thrace chew ivy, i. 384; tore Pentheus in pieces, vi. 98, vii. 24, 25; wore horns, vii. 17 Bacchic frenzy, iv. 164; orgies suppressed by Roman Government, v. 301 _n._ 2 Bacchus, his legendary connexion with the Athenian festival of swinging, iv. 281, 283 —— or Dionysus, vii. 2. _See_ Dionysus Bacchylides as to Croesus on the pyre, v. 175 _sq._ Bachofen, J. J., on Roman kings and the Saturnalia, ii. 313 _n._ 1; on the _Nonae Caprotinae_ and the Saturnalia, ii. 314 _n._ 1 Backache at reaping, leaps over the Midsummer bonfire thought to be a preventive of, x. 165, 168, 189, 344 _sq._; set down to witchcraft, x. 343 _n._, 345; at harvest, mugwort a protection against, xi. 59; creeping through a holed stone to prevent backache at harvest, xi. 189 Backbone of Osiris represented by the _ded_ pillar, vi. 108 _sq._ Bacon, Francis, on anointing weapon that caused wound, i. 202 Bad Country, the, in Victoria, ceremonies observed at entering, iii. 109 _sq._ _Badache_, double-axe, Midsummer King of the, x. 194 Badagas, the, of the Neilgherry Hills, their customs as to sowing and reaping the first grain, viii. 55; transfer the sins of the dead to a buffalo calf, ix. 36; their fire-walk, xi. 8 _sq._ Baddeley, Mr. St. Clair, i. 5 _n._ 2 Baden, homoeopathic magic at sowing in, i. 138; St. George’s Day in, ii. 337; Feast of All Souls in, vi. 74; customs as to the last sheaf at harvest in, vii. 283, 292, 298; the Corn-goat at threshing in, vii. 286; Lenten fire-custom in, x. 117; Easter bonfires in, x. 145; Midsummer fires in, x. 167 _sqq._ Badham, Rev. Charles, D.D., his proposed emendation of Euripides, iii. 156 _n._ Badham Court oak, in Gloucestershire, xi. 316 Badi, performer at a tight-rope ceremony in India, ix. 197 _Badnyak_, Yule log, in Servia, x. 259, 263