—— of the gods and giants, v. 157 —— of Summer and Winter, iv. 254 _sqq._ Battle-axe, sacred golden, i. 365 Battus, king of Cyrene, i. 47 Baudissin, W. W. Graf von, on Tammuz and Adonis, v. 6 _n._ 1; on Adonis as the personification of the spring vegetation, v. 228 _n._ 6; on summer festival of Adonis, v. 232 _n._; on Linus song, vii. 216 _n._ 4 Baumeister, A., on the date of the Homeric _Hymn to Demeter_, vii. 35 _n._ 1 Bautz, Dr. Joseph, on hell fire, iv. 136 _n._ 1 Bavaria, custom as to cast teeth in, i. 178; greasing the weapon instead of the wound which it inflicted, in, i. 204; green bushes placed at doors of newly-married pairs in, ii. 56; the Maypole renewed every few years in, ii. 70; the _Walber_ in, ii. 75; drama of the Slaying of the Dragon at Furth in, ii. 163 _sq._; Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 206 _sq._; carrying out Death in, iv. 233 _sqq._; dramatic contests between Summer and Winter in, iv. 255 _sq._; gardens of Adonis in, v. 244; Dinkelsbühl in, vii. 133; Weiden in, vii. 139; harvest customs in, vii. 147, 148, 150, 219 _sq._, 221 _sq._, 223, 232, 282, 286, 287, 289, 296, 298, 299; the thresher of the last corn obliged to “carry the Pig” in, vii. 299; cure for fever in, ix. 49; annual expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night in, ix. 159 _sq._; old Mrs. Perchta (a mythical old woman) in, ix. 240 _sq._; mode of reckoning the Twelve Days in, ix. 327; Easter bonfires in, x. 143 _sq._; belief as to eclipses in, x. 162; Midsummer fires in, x. 164 _sqq._; leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer in, xi. 26; the divining-rod in, xi. 67 _sq._; peasants’ belief as to hazel in, xi. 69 _n._; creeping through a holed stone or narrow opening in, xi. 188 _sq._ Bavaria, Rhenish, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198; homoeopathic treatment of a broken leg in, i. 205; leaf-clad mummer at Whitsuntide in, ii. 81; gout transferred to willow-bush in, ix. 56 ——, Upper, the bride-race in, ii. 304; ceremonies on Ascension Day in villages of, ix. 215; use of mistletoe in, xi. 85 _n._ 4 Bavarian charm at sowing wheat, i. 137; to make fruit-trees bear, i. 140 _sq._ —— farmers will not name the fox, iii. 396 —— peasants, their homoeopathic magic as to fruit-trees, i. 143 —— saying as to crossed legs, iii. 299 Bavili, the, of Loango, their belief that certain unlawful marriages are punished by God with drought, ii. 112; tampering with people’s shadows among, iii. 78; seclusion of girls at puberty among, x. 31 Bawenda, tribe of the Transvaal, their chief a rain-maker, i. 351; special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal among the, i. 401 _n._ 3; blood of princes not to be shed among the, iii. 243; their custom of placing stones in the forks of trees, ix. 30 _n._ 2; the positions of their villages hidden, vi. 251 Bayazid, the Sultan, and his soul, iii. 50