Bengal, rain-making in, i. 278, 283, 284 _n._; the Maghs of, ii. 38; marriage ceremony at the digging of wells in, ii. 146; the Oraons of, ii. 148, viii. 117; mourners touch a coral ring in, iii. 315; Bengalee women, their euphemisms for snakes and thieves, iii. 402; kings of, their rule of succession, iv. 51; the Oraons and Mundas of, v. 46, 240, xi. 311; the Korwas of, vii. 123; the Hos of, viii. 117; seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 68; stories of the external soul in, xi. 101 _sq._, 102 Bengkali, East Indian island, swinging as a religious rite in, iv. 277 _sq._ Bengweolo, Lake, in Central Africa, state governed by a queen near, ii. 277 Beni Ahsen, a tribe in Morocco, their Midsummer fires, x. 215 _sq._; their precaution at bathing on Midsummer Day, xi. 31 —— -Chougran tribe of North Africa, their rain-charm by means of a black cow, i. 290 —— Mgild, a Berber tribe of Morocco, their Midsummer fires, x. 215 —— Snous, the, of Morocco, their Midsummer rites, x. 216 Benin, belief as to twins in, i. 265; rule as to the Queen-mother of, iii. 86; ceremony at the reception of strangers in. iii. 108; kings of, not allowed to quit their palace, iii. 123; kings of, put their brothers to death, iii. 243; human victims crucified at, v. 294 _n._ 3; human sacrifices for the crops at, vii. 240; festival of the new yams at, viii. 63 _sq._; time of the “grand devils” in, ix. 131 _sq._ ——, king of, worshipped as a god, i. 396, iii. 123; represented with panther’s whiskers, iv. 85 _sq._; human sacrifices at the burial of a, iv. 139 _sq._ Bennett, George, on the placenta in New Zealand, i. 182 _sq._ Bennisch district of Silesia, custom at threshing in the, vii. 148 Benomotapa, king of, his sacred fire, ii. 264 Benson, E. F., on May Day custom in Cornwall, ii. 52 Bent, J. Theodore, discovers ruins of Olba, v. 151; identifies site of Hieropolis-Castabala, v. 168 _n._ 1; on passing sick children through a cleft oak, xi. 172 Bentley, Richard, as to the soul on the lips, iii. 33 _n._ 3 Benue River, tributary of the Niger, the Jukos of the, iv. 34, viii. 160; the Igbiras of the, viii. 115 Benvenuto Cellini, his alleged halo, ii. 197 _n._ 6 Benzoni, G., Italian historian, on _Viracocchie_, i. 57 _n._ Bera Pennu, Earth Goddess of the Khonds, human sacrifices to, vii. 245 Berar, sacred groves in, ii. 41 _sq._ Berawans of Sarawak, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 74 _sq._ Berber belief as to water at Midsummer, xi. 31 —— tale, milk-tie in a, xi. 138 _n._ 1 Berbers of North Africa, the Barley Bride among the, vii. 178 _sq._; their Midsummer customs, x. 213 _sqq._, 219 Berecynthia, title of Cybele, v. 279 _n._ 4 Bérenger-Feraud, L. J. B., on the Festival of Fools, ix. 334 _sq._ Berenice and Ptolemy, annual festival in their honour, vi. 35 _n._ 1 Bergell, in the Grisons, bells rung to make the grass grow at, ix. 247 Bergen, Midsummer bonfires at, x. 171