Barber, Rev. Dr. W. T. A., on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 145 _n._, 275 Barbosa, Duarte, on the suicide of the kings of Quilacare, iv. 46 _sq._ Barce or Alceis, daughter of Antaeus, ii. 300 _sq._ Barcelona, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, iv. 242 Barclay, Sheriff, on Hallowe’en fires, x. 232 Bardney bumpkin, on witch as hare, x. 318 Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of the, xi. 129 _sq._ Barea, of East Africa, rain-making priest among the, ii. 3; women will not name their husbands, iii. 337 —— and Kunama, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 66 Barenton, the fountain of, used in rain-making, i. 306, 307 Bari, the, of the Upper Nile, rain-makers as chiefs among, i. 345, 346 _sq._; Rain Kings among, ii. 2 Barito, the, of Borneo, sacrifice cattle instead of human victims, iv. 166 _n._ 1 ——, river in Borneo, worship of spirits on the, ix. 87 Bark of sacred tree used to make garments for pregnant women, ii. 58 Barker, W. G. M. Jones, on need-fire in Yorkshire, x. 286 _sq._ Barking a tree, old German penalty for, ii. 9 Barley forced for festival, v. 240, 241, 242, 244, 251 _sq._; awarded as a prize in the Eleusinian games, vii. 73, 74, 75; oldest cereal cultivated by the Aryans, vii. 132 —— Bride among the Berbers, vii. 178 _sq._ —— -cow at harvest, vii. 289, 290 —— -harvest, time of, in ancient Greece, vii. 48, 77 —— loaf eaten by human scapegoat before being put to death, ix. 255 —— -meal and water drunk as a form of communion with the Barley-Goddess at Eleusis, vii. 161 —— -mother, the, vii. 131; the last sheaf called the, vii. 135 —— plant, external soul of prince in a, xi. 102 —— seed used to strengthen weakly children, vii. 11 —— -sow at threshing, vii. 298 —— -water, draught of, as a form of communion in the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 38 —— and wheat discovered by Isis, vi. 116 —— -wolf in the last sheaf, vii. 271, 273 Barolongs, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, their worship of ancestors, vi. 179; their custom of inoculation, viii. 159 _n._ 4 Baron, R., on the reverence for dead kings in Madagascar, iii. 380 Baron, S., on annual expulsion of demons in Tonquin, ix. 147 _sq._ Baronga, the, of South Africa, their charm against worms, i. 152; their charm against snake-bite, i. 153; their beliefs and customs as to twins, i. 267 _sq._; preserve the hair and nails of dead chiefs, iii. 272; their belief as to the state of the spirits of the dead, iv. 10 _sq._; their custom as to falling stars, iv. 61; women’s part in agriculture among the, vii. 114 _sq._; their mode of freeing the fields from beetles, viii. 280; their story of a clan whose external souls were in a cat, xi. 150 _sq._ _See also_ Ba-Ronga