Bayfield, M. A., on the punishment of unfaithful Vestals, ii. 228 _n._ 5 Beal-fires on Midsummer Eve in Yorkshire, x. 198 Bealltaine, May Day, iii. 11. _See_ Beltane Bean, sprouting of, in superstitious ceremony, i. 266; the budding of a, as an omen, ii. 344 ——, King of the, ix. 313 _sq._, x. 153 _n._ 1; Queen of the, ix. 313, 315 —— clan among the Baganda, ix. 27 —— -cock at harvest, vii. 276 —— -goat among the beans, vii. 282 Beans in ceremony performed by parents of twins in Peru, i. 266, ii. 102 _n._ 1; not to be touched or named by the Flamen Dialis, ii. 248, iii. 13 _sq._; in magical rite, vii. 9 _sq._; the Spirit of, conceived by the Iroquois as a woman, vii. 177; cultivated in Burma, vii. 242; ceremony at eating the new, viii. 64; forbidden as food by Empedocles, viii. 301; thrown about the house at the expulsion of demons, ix. 143 _sq._; thrown about the house at the expulsion of ghosts, ix. 155; divination by, on Midsummer Eve, x. 209 Bear, customs observed by Lapps after killing a, iii. 221; ambiguous attitude of the Ainos towards the, viii. 180 _sqq._, 310 _sq_.; importance of the, for people of Siberia, viii. 191; the corn-spirit as a, viii. 325 _sqq._; external soul of warrior in a, xi. 151; Basque hunter transformed into a, xi. 226, 270; simulated transformation of novice into a, xi. 274 _sq._ _See also_ Bears ——, the Great, constellation, vii. 315; the soul of Typhon in, iv. 5 ——, the polar, taboos, concerning, iii. 209 —— -cats, souls of dead in, viii. 294 —— clan of the Moquis, descended from bears, viii. 178; of the Otawa Indians, their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 224 _sq._; of the Niska Indians, xi. 271, 272 _n._ 1 —— -dance of man who pretends to be a bear, xi. 274 —— -dances, viii. 191, 195 —— -festivals of the Ainos, viii. 182 _sqq._; of the Gilyaks, viii. 190 _sqq._; of the Goldi, viii. 197; of the Orotchis, viii. 197 —— -hunting, continence before, iii. 197, 198 —— -skin worn by woman dancer, viii. 223 Bear’s bile and heart eaten to make the eater brave, viii. 146 —— flesh, a person who has eaten of, obliged to abstain from fish for a year, viii. 251 Bear’s heart eaten, viii. 146 —— “little tongue” removed by American Indian hunters, viii. 269 —— liver, as a medicine, viii. 187 _sq._ —— skin, Lapp women shoot blindfold at a, xi. 280 _n._ “Beard of Volos,” vii. 233 Beard, the first, consecrated, i. 29 Bearded Venus, in Cyprus, v. 165, vi. 259 _n._ 3 “Beardless One, the Ride of the,” a Persian ceremony, ix. 402 _sq._ Beards, homoeopathic magic to promote the growth of, i. 153 _sq._; not pulled out by chiefs and sorcerers, iii. 260 Bearers to carry royal personages, x. 3 _sq._