human scapegoats among the, ix. 42; children live apart from their parents among the, x. 23 _n._ 2; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 23 _sq._; their superstition as to women who do not menstruate, x. 24; abstain from salt in certain cases, x. 27 _sq._; their dread of menstruous women, x. 80 _sq._ _See also_ Uganda Baganda fishermen, taboos observed by, iii. 194 _sq._ Bagba, a wind-fetish, i. 327, iii. 5 Bagdad, death of the King of the Jinn reported at, iv. 8 Bageshu (Bagishu), the, of Mount Elgon, in East Africa, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 103, v. 92; seclusion and purification of manslayers among, iii. 174 Bagobos of Mindanao, one of the Philippines, their human sacrifices at sowing, vii. 240; their way of detaining the soul in the body, iii. 31, 315; never utter their own names, iii. 323 _sq._; their theory of earthquakes, v. 200; their custom of hanging and spearing human victims, v. 290 _sq._; their pretence of feeding their agricultural implements at harvest, viii. 124 Baharutsis, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, their worship of ancestors, vi. 179 Bahaus. _See_ Kayans Bahima of Central Africa, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 75; custom of herdsmen at watering their cattle among the, iii. 183 _n._; names of their dead kings not mentioned, iii. 375; their belief as to dead kings and chiefs, v. 83 _n._ 1; their worship of the dead, vi. 190 _sq._; their belief in a supreme god Lugaba, vi. 190; their belief in transmigration, viii. 288; believe that at death their kings turn into lions, and their queens into leopards, viii. 288; their transference of abscesses, ix. 6; their use of scapegoats to cure disease among their cattle, ix. 32; their dread of menstruous women, x. 80 —— of Kiziba, vi. 173 —— of the Uganda Protectorate, ix. 6, 32 Bahnars of Cochin-China, their recall of lost souls, iii. 52, 58 _sq._ Bahr-el-Ghazal province, the Golos of the, i. 318; ceremony of the new fire in the, x. 134 _sq._ Baiga, aboriginal priest in Mirzapur, ix. 27 Baigas, Dravidian tribe of India, their objection to agriculture, v. 89 Bailey, Mabel, on the May Queen, ii. 88 _n._ 1 Bailly, J. S., French astronomer, on the Arctic origin of the rites of Adonis, v. 229 Bairu, the, of Kiziba, vi. 173 Baisâkh, Indian month (April), iv. 265 Bakairi, the, of Brazil, call bull-roarers “thunder and lightning,” xi. 231 _sq._ Bakara, a village of Sumatra, i. 398, 399 Baker, F. B., on relic of tree-worship at Magnesia, i. 386 _n._ 2 Bakers, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 _sq._, 205 Baking, continence observed at, iii. 201 —— -forks, witches ride on, xi. 73, 74 Bakongs, the, of Borneo, associate the souls of the dead with bear-cats and other animals, viii. 294 Baku, on the Caspian, perpetual fires at, ii. 256, v. 192