Barotse or Marotse, a Bantu tribe of the Zambesi, rain-making among the, i. 310 _n._ 7; regard their chief as a demi-god, i. 392 _sq._; exorcism after a funeral among the, iii. 107; their belief in a supreme god Niambe, vi. 193; their worship of dead kings, vi. 194 _sq._; woman’s part in agriculture among the, vii. 115; inoculation among the, viii. 159; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28, 29 Barren cattle driven through fire, x. 203, 338 —— fruit-trees threatened in order to make them bear fruit, ii. 20 _sqq._ —— women, charms to procure offspring for, i. 70 _sqq._; sterilizing influence ascribed to, i. 142; embrace a tree to obtain offspring, i. 182; thought to conceive through eating nuts of a palm-tree, ii. 51; fertilized by trees, ii. 56 _sq._, 316 _sq._; thought to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 102; fertilized by water-spirits, ii. 159 _sqq._, v. 213 _sq._, 216; resort to graves in order to get children, v. 90; entice souls of dead children to them, v. 94; hope to conceive through fertilizing influence of vegetables, xi. 51. _See also_ Childless Barrenness of women cured by passing through holed stone, v. 36, with _n._ 4; removed by serpent, v. 86; children murdered as a remedy for, v. 95 Barricading the road against a ghostly pursuer, xi. 176 “Barring the fire,” i. 231 _n._ 3 Barringtonia, offerings made under a, in Guadalcanal, viii. 126 Barros, De, Portuguese historian, on custom of regicide at Passier, iv. 51 _sq._ Barrows of Halfdan, vi. 100 Barsana, in North India, Holi bonfires at, xi. 2, 5 Barsom, bundle of twigs used by Parsee priests, v. 191 _n._ 2 Barth, H., on sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 133 _n._ 1 Bartle Bay, in British New Guinea, power of magicians at, i. 338; festival of the wild mango tree at, x. 7 _sqq._ Barwan, river in Australia, annual expulsion of ghosts on the, ix. 123 Bas Doda, in India, marriage of girls to the god at, ii. 149 Basagala, the, of Central Africa, changes in their language caused by their fear of naming the dead, iii. 361 Bashada, a tribe accustomed to strangle their first-born children, iv. 181 _sq._ Bashilange, a tribe of the Congo Basin, reception of subject chiefs by head chief among the, iii. 114 Bashkirs, their horse-races at funerals, iv. 97 Basil, curses at sowing, i. 281; the Holy, plant worshipped in India, ii. 25 _sqq._; pots of, on St. John’s Day in Sicily, v. 245. _See also_ Tulasi _Basilai_, officials at Olympia, i. 46 _n._ 4 Basis, physical, of magic, i. 174 _sq._; for the theory of an external soul, i. 201 Basket, souls gathered into a, iii. 72 Basoga, the, of Central Africa, form blood-brotherhood with the trees which they fell, ii. 19 _sq._; their punishment of the seduction of a virgin, ii. 112; their abhorrence of incest in cattle, ii. 112 _sq._; their pretended human sacrifice, iv. 215