_Badnyi Dan_, Christmas Eve, in Servia, x. 258, 263 Badonsachen, King of Burma, claims divinity, i. 400 Badumar, in West Africa, ii. 293 Baduwis, an aboriginal race in the mountains of Java, seclusion of their hereditary ruler, iii. 115 _sq._; use no iron in husbandry, iii. 232 Baethgen, F., on goddess ’Hatheh, v. 162 _n._ 2 Baffin Land, the Esquimaux of, i. 113, iii. 32 _n._ 2, 152, 207, 399, viii. 257, ix. 125 Bag, souls of persons deposited in a, iii. 63 _sq._, xi. 142, 153, 155; soul of dying chief caught in a, iv. 199 Baganda, the, of Central Africa, their belief as to the sterilizing influence of barren women, i. 142, ii. 102; their treatment of the afterbirth and navel-string, i. 195 _sq._, xi. 162; spirits of their dead kings preserved in their navel-strings and jawbones, i. 196; their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 _n._ 2; their incarnate human god of the Lake Nyanza, i. 395; their belief in the influence of the sexes on vegetation, ii. 101 _sq._; their customs in regard to twins, ii. 102 _sq._; their fire-drill, ii. 210; their Vestal Virgins, ii. 246; their list of kings, ii. 269; their mode of fertilizing women by means of a wild banana-tree, ii. 318; stabbed the shadows of enemies, iii. 78; their superstition as to shadows, iii. 87; their belief as to women stepping over a man’s weapons, iii. 423; their belief as to the state of the spirits of the dead, iv. 11; their worship of the python, v. 86; rebirth of the dead among the, v. 92 _sq._; their belief in impregnation by the flower of the banana, v. 93; their theory of earthquakes, v. 199; their presentation of infants to the new moon, vi. 144, 145; ceremony observed by the king at new moon, vi. 147; their worship of dead kings, vi. 167 _sqq._; their veneration for the ghosts of dead relations, vi. 191 _n._ 1; their pantheon, vi. 196; human sacrifices offered to prolong the life of their kings, vi. 223 _sqq._; woman’s share in agriculture among the, vii. 118; their ceremony at eating the new beans, viii. 64; significance of stepping over a woman among the, viii. 70 _n._ 1; their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 113; their precaution against the ghosts of the elephants, which they kill, viii. 227 _sq._; dread the ghosts of sheep, viii. 231; propitiate the ghosts of slain buffaloes, viii. 231; treat ceremonially the first fish caught, viii. 252 _sq._; their custom of mutilating dead enemies, viii. 271 _sq._; their transference of plague to a plantain-tree, ix. 4 _sq._; their transference of sickness to effigies, ix. 7; their precautions against the ghosts of suicides and other unfortunates, ix. 17 _sq._; throw sticks or grass on graves or places of execution of certain persons, ix. 18; their worship of the river Nakiza, ix. 27; transfer sickness to animals, ix. 32;