Bears sacrificed by the Gilyaks of Saghalien, iii. 370; not to be called by their proper names, iii. 397 _sq._, 399, 402; killed ceremonially by the Ainos, viii. 180 _sqq._; souls of dead in, viii. 286 _sq._; processions with, in Europe, viii. 326 _n._ 3 ——, slain, propitiated by Kamtchatkans, Ostiaks, Koryaks, Finns, and Lapps, viii. 222 _sqq._; by American Indians, viii. 224 _sqq._ _See also_ Bear Beast, the number of the, iv. 44 Beasts, sacred Egyptian, offerings to the, i. 29 _sq._; sacred, held responsible for the course of nature in ancient Egypt, i. 354 Beathag, the lucky well of, i. 323 Beating as a mode of purification, ix. 262, x. 61, 64 _sqq._ —— the air to drive away demons or ghosts, iii. 373, ix. 109, 111, 115, 122, 131, 152, 156, 234 —— boys with leg-bone of eagle-hawk, viii. 165 _n._ 2 —— cattle to make them fat or fruitful, iv. 236 —— effigy of ox with rods in China, viii. 11 _sq._ —— floors or walls of houses to drive away ghosts, iii. 168, 170 —— frogs as a rain-charm, i. 292 —— girls at puberty, x. 61, 66 _sq._ —— human scapegoats, ix. 196, 252, 255, 256 _sq._, 272 _sq._ —— a man clad in a cow’s hide on last day of year, viii. 322 _sqq._ —— a man’s garments instead of the man, i. 206 _sq._ —— people for good luck, vii. 309; as a mode of conveying good qualities, ix. 262 _sqq._; with skins of sacrificial victims, ix. 265; with green boughs, ix. 270 _sqq._; to stimulate the reproductive powers, ix. 272 —— persons, animals, or things to deliver them from demons and ghosts, ix. 259 _sqq._ Beating with rods in rain-making, i. 257 _sq._ —— the sea with rods as a rain-charm, i. 301 Beauce, the great _mondard_ in, viii. 6; festival of torches in, x. 113; story of a were-wolf in, x. 309 Beauce and Perche, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198; conflagrations supposed to be extinguished by priests in, i. 231 _n._ 3; belief as to falling stars in, iv. 67; fever transferred to an aspen in, ix. 57; cure for toothache in, ix. 62; Midsummer fires in, x. 188 Beaufort, F., on perpetual flame in Lycia, v. 222 _n._ Beauty and the Beast type of tale, iv. 125 _sqq._ Beauvais, the Festival of Fools at, ix. 335 _sq._ Beaver asked to give a new tooth, i. 180; the Great, prayers offered by beaver-hunters to, viii. 240 —— clan of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273 Beavers, their bones not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, viii. 238 _sqq._; their blood not allowed to fall on ground, viii. 240 Bechuana charms, i. 150 _sq._ —— king, cure of, ix. 31 _sq._