Bath before marriage, intention of, ii. 162; of ox blood, iv. 35, 201; in river at the rites of Cybele, v. 273, 274 _n._; of bull’s blood in the rites of Attis, v. 274 _sqq._; of image of Cybele perhaps a rain-charm, v. 280 —— of Aphrodite, v. 280 —— of Demeter, v. 280 —— of Hera in the river Burrha, v. 280; in the spring of Canathus, v. 280 Bathing and washing forbidden to rain-doctor when he wishes to prevent rain from falling, i. 271, 272; bathing as a rain-charm, i. 277 _sq._; (washing) as a ceremonial purification, iii. 141, 142, 150, 153, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175, 179, 183, 192, 198, 219, 220, 222, 285, 286; forbidden, vii. 94 —— on St. John’s Day or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), v. 246 _sqq._; pagan origin of the custom, v. 249 —— at Easter, x. 123; at Midsummer, x. 208, 210, 216, xi. 29 _sqq._; thought to be dangerous on Midsummer Day, xi. 26 _sq._ Baths of Hercules, v. 212 —— of Solomon in Moab, v. 215 Baton of Sinope, on the Thessalian festival Peloria, ix. 350 Batoo Bedano, an earthquake god in Nias, v. 202 Bats, souls of dead in, viii. 287; the lives of men in, xi. 215 _sq._, 217; called men’s “brothers,” xi. 215, 216, 218 Batta magicians exorcize demons by means of images, viii. 102 Battambang, a province of Siam, ceremony to procure rain in, i. 299 Battas or Bataks of Sumatra, magical images among the, i. 71 _sq._; their belief as to the placenta, i. 193; fight the storm, i. 330; worship a prince as a deity, i. 398 _sq._; revere the Sultan of Minangkabau, i. 399; their sacred trees, ii. 41; think that fornication and incest injure the crops, ii. 108; their use of rice to prevent the soul from wandering, iii. 34 _sq._; their recall of lost souls, iii. 45 _sqq._; their belief in the transmigration of souls, iii. 65; afraid of being photographed, iii. 99; ceremony at the reception of a traveller among the, iii. 104; their custom as to eating, iii. 116; untie things to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296 _sq._; names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 338 _sq._; use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 405 _sq._; their personification of the rice, vii. 196; their observation of Orion and the Pleiades, vii. 315; their ceremonies at killing a tiger, viii. 216 _sq._; believe that the souls of the dead often transmigrate into tigers, viii. 293; their use of swallows as scapegoats, ix. 34 _sq._; their belief in demons, ix. 87 _sq._; their belief in a Trinity, ix. 88 _n._ 1; their use of human scapegoats, ix. 213; their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 223; their totemic system, xi. 224 _sqq._ _See also_ Bataks Battel, Andrew, on the king of Loango, iii. 117 _sq._; on the colour of negro children at birth, xi. 251 _n._ 1 Battle, purificatory ceremonies after a, iii. 165 _sqq._, vi. 251 _sq._; mock, viii. 75; annual, among boys in Tumleo, ix. 143