Balquhidder, in Perthshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 157; hill of the fires at, x. 149; Hallowe’en bonfires at, x. 232 Balsam plants, wild, as representatives of the harvest goddess, vii. 207 _Balsamorrhiza sagittata, Nutt._, the sunflower root, superstitions of Thompson Indians concerning the, viii. 81 Balthasar, one of the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 _sqq._ Balum, a mythical being of German New Guinea, iii. 306 _Balum_, spirits, vii. 104, ix. 83, xi. 242 Balwe in Westphalia, Burying the Carnival at, iv. 232 Bâm-Margi, Hindoo sect, their use of magical images, i. 65 Bambaras of the Niger, their sacred trees, ii. 42 Bamboo-rat sacrificed for riddance of evils, ix. 208 _sq._ Bampton-in-the-Bush in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62 Banana, women impregnated by the flower of the, v. 93; shoots beaten to make them grow, ix. 264 —— -tree, supposed to fertilize barren women, ii. 318; child’s hair deposited on a, iii. 276; afterbirth of child buried under a, xi. 162, 163, 164 —— -trees, fruit-bearing, hair deposited under, iii. 286 Bananas, homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 142; sown by young children, vii. 115; cultivated by women, vii. 115, 118; cultivated in South America, vii. 120, 121; cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123; cultivated in New Guinea, vii. 123; soul of dead man in, viii. 298; mode of fertilizing, ix. 264; the cause of human mortality, ix. 303 Banars of Cambodia, their prayers for the crops, viii. 33 Bancroft, H. H., on the external souls of the Zapotecs, xi. 212 Bandages to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 32, 71 Bandiagara, Mount, in Nigeria, iii. 124 Bandicoot in rain-making, i. 288 Bangala, the, of the Upper Congo, continence observed by fishers and hunters among, iii. 195 _sq._; names of fishermen not mentioned among, iii. 330 _sq._; rebirth of dead among, v. 92; women’s share in agriculture among, vii. 119. _See also_ Boloki Bangalas of Angola, elective chieftainship among the, ii. 293 Bangerang, an Australian tribe, iii. 321 Bangkok, ix. 150; human foundation sacrifices at, iii. 90 Bangweolo, Lake, custom as to sowing on the islands of, vii. 115 Banished prince, charm to restore a, i. 145 Banishment of homicide, iv. 69 _sq._; of evil spirits, ix. 86 Banivas of the Orinoco, their scourging of girls at puberty, x. 66 _sqq._ Banjars in West Africa punish their king for drought or excessive rain, i. 353 Banks’ Islanders, their ways of making sunshine, i. 314; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313; their story of the origin of death, ix. 304 Banks’ Islands, magical stones in the, i. 164; supernatural power of chiefs in the, i. 338; ghosts in stones in the, iii. 80; Vanua Lava in the, iii. 85; names of relations by marriage tabooed in the, iii. 344 _sq._; burial of women who have died in childbed in the, viii. 97 _sq._; fatigue transferred to stones, sticks, or leaves in the, ix. 9