Bakuba or Bushongo of the Congo, rule as to persons of royal blood among the, x. 4. _See_ Bushongo Bakundu of the Cameroons, burial custom of the, viii. 99 Balabulan, a person of the Batta Trinity, ix. 88 _n._ 1 Bald-headed widow, transference of fever to a, ix. 38 Balder, the Norse god, and his lame foal, iii. 305 _n._ 1; his body burnt, x. 102; worshipped in Norway, x. 104; camomile sacred to, xi. 63; burnt at Midsummer, xi. 87; Midsummer sacred to, xi. 87; a tree-spirit or deity of vegetation, xi. 88 _sq._; his invulnerability, xi. 94; why Balder was thought to shine, xi. 293; perhaps a real man deified, xi. 314 _sq._ —— and the mistletoe, x. 101 _sq._, xi. 76 _sqq._, 302; interpreted as a mistletoe-bearing oak, xi. 93 _sq._; his life or death in the mistletoe, xi. 279, 283 ——, the myth of, x. 101 _sqq._; reproduced in the Midsummer festival of Scandinavia, xi. 87; perhaps dramatized in ritual, xi. 88; Indian parallel to, xi. 280; African parallels to, xi. 312 _sqq._ Balder’s Balefires, name formerly given to Midsummer bonfires in Sweden, x. 172, xi. 87 —— Grove, x. 104, xi. 315 _Balders-brâ_, Balder’s eyelashes, a name for camomile, xi. 63 Baldness a supposed effect of breaking a taboo, iii. 140 Bâle, statuette of the Mexican god Xipe at, ix. 291 _n._ 1; Lenten fire-custom in the canton of, x. 119 Balefires, Balder’s, at Midsummer in Sweden, x. 172 Bali, inspired mediums in, i. 378 _sq._; special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402 _n._; the rice personified as husband and wife in, vii. 201 _sqq._; observation of the Pleiades in, vii. 314 _sq._; propitiation of mice to induce them to spare the fields in, viii. 278; belief in demons in, ix. 86; periodical expulsion of demons in, ix. 140; filing of teeth in, x. 68 _n._ 2; birth-trees in, xi. 164 Balinese, their conduct in an earthquake, v. 198 Balkan Peninsula, the Slavs of the, ii. 237, 241; need-fire in the, x. 281 Ball, Valentine, on hook-swinging, iv. 279 Ball, game of, played as a rite, viii. 76, 79; played as a magical ceremony, ix. 179 _sq._; in Normandy, ix. 183 _sq._; played to determine the King of Summer, x. 195 —— -players, homœopathic charms employed by, i. 144, 155 Balli Atap, the God of the Roof, among the Kenyahs, ii. 385 Ballinasloe, in County Galway, Candlemas custom at, ii. 95 _n._ Balls, gold and silver, to imitate the sun and moon, ii. 63 Ballymagauran, in County Cavan, ancient idol near, iv. 183 Ballymote, the Book of, iv. 100 Ballyvadlea, in Tipperary, woman burnt as a witch at, x. 323 _sq._ Balnagown Loch, in Lismore, witch-hare at, x. 316 _Baloi_, mythical beings of the Basutos, i. 177; witches and wizards, vi. 104 _Balolo_, a sea-slug, ix. 141. _See also_ Palolo veridis Balong of the Cameroons, their external souls in animals, xi. 203