Bechuanas, the, of South Africa, their homoeopathic charms made from animals, i. 150 _sq._; their sacrifice for rain, i. 291; their ceremony to cause the sun to shine, i. 313; the hack-thorn sacred among the, ii. 48 _sq._; their purification after a journey, iii. 112, 285; their purification of manslayers, iii. 172 _sq._, 174; will not tell their stories before sunset, iii. 384; think it unlucky to speak of the lion by his proper name, iii. 400; their fear of meteors, iv. 61; their ritual at founding a new town, vi. 249; their sacrifice of a blind bull on various occasions, vi. 249, 250 _sq._; human sacrifices for the crops among the, vii. 240; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 316; of the Crocodile clan, their fear of meeting or seeing a crocodile, viii. 28; their ceremonies before eating the new fruits, viii. 69 _sq._; the Baperis, a tribe of, viii. 164; their custom of mutilating an ox after a battle, viii. 271; their belief as to sympathetic relation of man to wounded crocodile, xi. 210 _sq._ Bed of absent hunter or warrior not to be used, i. 123, 127, 128, 129; feet of, smeared with mud, iii. 14; prohibitionto sleep in a, iii. 194. _See also_ Beds Bed-clothes, contagious magic of bodily impressions on, i. 213 Bedding at home not to be raised in the absence of hunters, i. 121 Bede, on the succession of Pictish kings, ii. 286; on the Feast of All Saints, vi. 83 Bedouins of East Africa attack whirlwinds, i. 331; regard an acacia-tree as sacred, ii. 42; fire-drill of the ancient, ii. 209; annual festival of the Sinaitic, iv. 97 Bedriacum, the battle of, iv. 140, ix. 416 Beds of absent hunters, children not to play on, i. 123 Bee, external soul of an ogre in a, xi. 101. _See also_ Bees Beech, M. W. H., on serpent-worship among the Suk, v. 85 Beech or fir used to make the Yule log, x. 249 —— -tree in sacred grove of Diana, i. 40; burnt in Lenten bonfire, x. 115 _sq._ —— -woods of Denmark, ii. 351 Beeches of Latium, ii. 188; struck by lightning, proportion of, xi. 298 _sq._; free from mistletoe, xi. 315 Beef and milk not to be eaten at the same meal, iii. 292 _Beena_ marriage, ii. 271; in Ceylon, vi. 215 Beer, continence observed at brewing, iii. 200; in relation to Dionysus, vii. 2 _n._ 1; drunk out of dead king’s skull as means of inspiration, viii. 150 Bees on image of Artemis at Ephesus, i. 37; the King Bees (Essenes) at Ephesus, ii. 135 _sq._; the sting of, a popular cure for rheumatism, iii. 106 _n._ 2; transmigration of quiet people into, viii. 308; thought to be killed by menstruous women, x. 96; ashes of bonfires used to cure ailments of, x. 142 Beetle, in magic, i. 152; external soul in a, xi. 138, 140 Beetles, superstitious precautions against, viii. 279, 280 Befana at Rome and elsewhere, ix. 167 Begbie, General, v. 62 _n._ Begetting novices anew at initiation, pretence of, xi. 248