Basque hunter transformed into bear, xi. 226, 270 —— story of the external soul, xi. 139 Bassa tribe, of the Cameroons, reputed to be magicians, ix. 120 Bassareus, a title of Dionysus, viii. 282 _n._ 5 Bassari, the, of Togoland, their superstition as to the mothers of twins, ii. 102 _n._ 1; their offerings of new yams, viii. 116 _Bassia latifolia_ worshipped, viii. 119 Bassus, Roman officer, ix. 309 Bastar, province of India, treatment of witches in, xi. 159 Bastard, traveller in Madagascar, iii. 103 ——, name applied to the last sheaf in West Prussia, vii. 150 Bastian, Adolf, on extinguishing fires after a death, ii. 268; as to sanctity of head in Siam and Burma, iii. 252 _sq._; on animal sacraments among pastoral tribes, viii. 313; on the worship of nats in Burma, ix. 96 _n._ 3; on rites of initiation in West Africa, xi. 256 _sq._ Basutoland, attempts to regulate the calendar in, vii. 116 _sq._; inoculation in, viii. 158 _sq._, 160 Basutos, use of magical dolls among the, i. 71; their custom as to extracted teeth, i. 177; their contagious magic of bodily impressions, i. 214; keep all defiled persons from the sight of corn, ii. 112; their belief as to the spirits of waterfalls, ii. 157; their custom of kindling a new fire after a birth, ii. 239; abhor the sea, iii. 10; avoidance of wife’s mother among the, iii. 85; their superstition as to reflections in water, iii. 93; their burial custom, iii. 107; their purification of warriors, iii. 172; purification of cattle among the, iii. 177; their chiefs buried secretly, vi. 104; their worship of the dead, vi. 179 _sq._; their customs as to the new corn, viii. 110; their sacrifice of first-fruits, viii. 110; eat the hearts of brave men to make themselves brave, viii. 148; their custom of placing stones on cairns, ix. 30 _n._ 2; their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 31 Bata and Anpu, ancient Egyptian story of, xi. 134 _sqq._ Bataks or Battas of Sumatra, their theory of earthquakes, v. 199 _sq._; their _tondi_, the soul of human beings and of rice, vii. 182. _See_ Battas Batang Lupar, in Borneo, the Dyaks of, their “lying heaps,” ix. 14 —— -Lupars of Borneo, the foes of the Kayans, vii. 96 Bataraguru, a person of the Batta Trinity, v. 199 _sq._, ix. 88 _n._ 1 Batari Sri, a goddess in Lombok, vii. 202 Batavia, rain-making by means of a cat in, i. 289 Batchelor, Rev. J., on the Aino ceremony with the new millet, viii. 52; on the Aino _kamui_, viii. 180 _n._ 2; on the bear as a totem or god of the Ainos, viii. 180, 198; on the suckling of bears by the Aino women, viii. 182 _n._ 2; on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 183 _sq._; on the _inao_ of the Ainos, viii. 186 _n._; on the Aino belief in the resurrection of animals, viii. 201; his purification after visiting an Aino grave, ix. 261