Beggar, name given to last sheaf, vii. 231 _sq._ —— -man, the binder of the last sheaf called the, vii. 231 Behanzin, king of Dahomey, represented with the head and body of a fish, iv. 85 Behar district of India, virtue ascribed to abuse in, i. 279; rain-charm by means of a stone in, i. 305; “wives of the snake” in, ii. 149; custom of swinging in, iv. 279; bullocks let loose on eleventh day of mourning in, ix. 37 _n._ 4; the fire-walk in, xi. 5 Beheading the King, a Whitsuntide pageant in Bohemia, iv. 209 _sq._ —— Whitsuntide mummers, pretence of, iv. 206 _sqq._ _Beifuss_, German name for mugwort, xi. 60 _n._ 6 Bekes, in Hungary, mode of fertilizing women in, ix. 264 Beku, dwarf tribe of West Africa, their magical ointment for acquiring the power of the dead, viii. 163 _sq._ Bel or Marduk, a Babylonian deity, v. 71; his human wife, ii. 129 _sq._; identified with Zeus, ix. 389; created the world by cleaving the monster Tiamat in two, ix. 410; the fires of, x. 147, 157, 158 _sq._ Belep, the, of New Caledonia, their charm to disable an enemy, i. 150 Beleth, John, his _Rationale Divinorum Officiorum_ quoted, x. 161 _n._ 2 Belethus, J., on “Easter Smacks,” ix. 270 _n._ Belfast, the last sheaf called Granny near, vii. 136 Belford, in Northumberland, the Yule log at, x. 256 Belgian cure for fever, ix. 56 _n._ 1 Belgium, mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95; cut hair burnt in, iii. 283; belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424; belief as to meteors in, iv. 67; Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70; fox’s tongue a remedy for erysipelas in, viii. 270; the King of the Bean in, ix. 313; the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day in, ix. 329; Lenten fires in, x. 107 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, x. 194 _sq._; the Yule log in, x. 249; bathing on Midsummer Day in, xi. 30; divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53; mugwort gathered on St. John’s Day or Eve in, xi. 59 _sq._; vervain gathered on St. John’s Day in, xi. 62; four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63; the witches’ Sabbath in, xi. 73 Bell-ringing as a charm to dispel evil influences, ii. 343 _sq._ _See_ Bells Bella Coola (Bilqula) Indians of British Columbia, their conception of the soul as a bird, iii. 34; their cannibal rites, vii. 20; their masked dances, ix. 376 _n._ 2; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 46; custom of mourners among the, xi. 174 Bellerophon and Pegasus, v. 302 _n._ 4 Belli-Paaro society in West Africa, rites of initiation in the, xi. 257 _sqq._ Bellochroy, enchanter at, x. 290 Bellona and Mars, vi. 231