Bergkirchen, horse-races after harvest at, vii. 76 Bergslagshärad, in Sweden, the Yule Goat at, viii. 327 Bering Strait, the Esquimaux of, i. 9, 70, iii. 96, 205, 206, 228, 328, 371, 399, viii. 150, 247 Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire, ague transferred to oaks at, ix. 57 _sq._ Berkshire, May garlands in, ii. 60 Berleburg, in Westphalia, the Yule log at, x. 248 Berlin, fox’s teeth as an amulet in, i. 180; treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198; curses for good luck in, i. 281; insignia of royal family of Hawaii at, i. 388 _n._ 3; the Ethnological Museum at, i. 388 _n._ 3, ix. 70 _n._ 1; the divining-rod at, xi. 68 Bern, Midsummer fires in the canton of, x. 172; the Yule log in the canton of, x. 249; witches put to death in the canton of, xi. 42 _n._ 2 Bernara, the harvest _Cailleach_ in, vii. 166 Berneck, in Upper Franken, custom at threshing at, vii. 148 Bernera, on the west of Lewis, customs as to the last corn cut in, vii. 140 _sq._ Bernkastel, on the Moselle, the harvest Goat at, vii. 285 Berosus, Babylonian historian, on the festival of the Sacaea, iv. 113 _sq._, vii. 258 _sq._, ix. 355, 358, 359 Berries, the first of the season, ceremonies before eating, viii. 80 _sqq._ Berry, province of France, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, iv. 241 _sq._; the calf at harvest in, vii. 292; “seeing the Horse” at harvest in, vii. 294; Lenten fire custom in, x. 115; Midsummer fires in, x. 189; the Yule log in, x. 251 _sq._; four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63 Bertat, a people on the Blue Nile, their orgiastic annual festivals, iv. 16 _n._ 2 Berwickshire, kirn-dollies of last corn at harvest in, vii. 153 _sq._ Bes, grotesque Egyptian god, ii. 133, v. 118 _n._ 1 Besbau, near Luckau, races after harvest at, vii. 76 Besisis of the Malay Peninsula, their dread of noon, iii. 87; their carnival at rice-harvest, ix. 226 _n._ 1 Besoms placed crosswise at doors of cattle-stalls as a protection against witches, ii. 127 ——, burning, hurled against witches, ix. 162; flung aloft to make the corn grow high, x. 340; used to drive away witches, xi. 74 Bessy, one of the mummers on Plough Monday, viii. 329, 331 Bethlehem, worship of Adonis at, v. 257 _sqq._; fertility of the neighbourhood of, v. 257 _n._ 3; the Star of, v. 259, ix. 330; new Easter fire carried to, x. 130 _n._ Betimor, woman turned into crocodile, viii. 212 Betsileo, the, of Madagascar, attribute divine powers to their chiefs, i. 397; lickers of blood and eaters of nail-parings among the, iii. 246; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 83; offer the first-fruits of all crops to their king, viii. 116; their belief in the transmigration of souls, viii. 289 _sq._ “Between the two Beltane fires,” x. 149 Beul, fire of, need-fire, x. 293