Banksia, used as fuel by Australian aborigines, ii. 257 Banmanas of Senegambia, their custom at the death of an infant, ix. 261 _sq._ Banna, a tribe accustomed to strangle their first-born children, iv. 181 _sq._ Banner, Macleod’s Fairy, i. 368 Banquets in honour of the spirits of disease, ix. 119 Bantiks of Celebes, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 _n._ 1 Banting in Sarawak, rules observed by women during absence of warriors at, i. 127, 128 Bantu tribes, ancestor-worship among the, ii. 221, vi. 174 _sqq._; their small regard for the ghosts of women, ii. 224 _n._ 4; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82 _sqq._; their worship of dead chiefs or kings, vi. 175 _sqq._, 191 _sqq._; cohabitation of husband and wife enjoined as a matter of ritual on certain occasions among the, viii. 70 _n._ 1 —— tribes of Kavirondo, custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 176 _sq._; their belief as to the effect of eating a totemic animal, viii. 26 —— tribes of South Africa, their ideas as to the virulent infection spread by a woman who has had a miscarriage, iii. 152 _sqq._; their rule as to eating the new corn, viii. 111; their fear of demons, ix. 77 _sq._ —— tribes of South-East Africa, their fire-drill, ii. 210 _sq._ —— tribes of West Africa, their belief in demons, ix. 74 Banyai, chieftainship among the, ii. 292 Banyan-trees revered by the Chinese, ii. 14 Banyoro, the, of Central Africa, foes of the Baganda, ix. 42, 194; the king as rain-maker among, i. 348; succession to the throne determined by mortal combat among, ii. 322; their worship of serpents, v. 86 _n._ 1 _See also_ Unyoro Baobab-trees thought to be inhabited by mischievous spirits, ii. 34; worshipped, ii. 46; goats sacrificed to, ii. 47 Baoules of the Ivory Coast, extraction of chief’s soul among the, iii. 70 Baperis or Malekootoos, a Bechuana tribe, their customs as to their totem the porcupine, viii. 164 _sq._ Baptism of bull’s blood in the rites of Cybele, v. 274 _sqq._ Baptist, St. John the, day of, i. 277. _See_ St. John Bar-rekub, king of Samal, v. 15 _sq._ _Bar_-tree (_Ficus Indica_), married to a mango in India, ii. 25; sacred in India, ii. 43 Bara, a tribe of Madagascar, names of dead kings not pronounced among the, iii. 380 —— country in Madagascar, fear of being photographed in the, iii. 98 Barabbas and Christ, ix. 417 _sqq._ _Baraka_, blessed or magical virtue, in North Africa, ix. 23 _n._, x. 216, 218, xi. 51; of saints, ix. 22; of skins of sacrificed sheep, ix. 265 Baram River, in Sarawak, tree-worship on the, ii. 38 _sq._; in Borneo, magical stones on the, iii. 30 Barar, third marriage deemed unlucky in, ii. 57 _n._ 4 Barat, a ceremony performed in Kumaon, ix. 196