Bevan, Professor A. A., on the Arab fire-drill, ii. 210 _n._; on magical knots, iii. 302 _n._ 4; on the change of _m_ to _v_ in Semitic, ix. 367 _n._ 2; on a passage of Tabari, xi. 83 _n._ 1 Beveridge, P., on the suppression of the names of the dead among the aborigines of New South Wales, iii. 363 _sq._ Beverley, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338 Beverley, on the initiatory rites of the Virginian Indians, xi. 266 _sq._ Bewitched animals burnt alive, x. 300 _sqq._; buried alive, x. 324 _sqq._ —— cow, mugwort applied to, xi. 59 —— things burnt to compel the witch to appear, x. 322 Bezoar stone in rain-charms, i. 305 Bghais, a Karen tribe of Burma, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 60 _sq._ Bhâdon, Indian month, i. 279, v. 243 Bhagats, mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 217 _sq._ Bhagavati, goddess, her shrine at Cranganore, i. 280 Bhairava, Hindoo goddess, image of, i. 65; temple of, iv. 219 Bharbhunjas of the Central Provinces, India, marriage custom of the, vi. 262 Bharias of the Central Provinces, India, exchange of costume between men and women at marriage among the, vi. 260 _sq._ Bhars of India, their use of a scapegoat in time of cholera, ix. 190 Bhils, the, of Central India, worship of the peacock among, viii. 29; their torture of witches, xi. 159 Bhímsen or Bhím Deo, an Indian deity, viii. 118 Bhootan, the Dhurma Rajah in, i. 410; heaps of stones or sticks in, ix. 12; offerings at cairns in, ix. 26 Bhotiyas of Juhar, their use of a scapegoat, ix. 209 Bhuiyars of Mirzapur will not speak of monkeys or bears by their proper names in the morning, iii. 403; their dread of menstrual pollution, x. 84 Bhuiyas, the, of North-Eastern India, ceremony at the installation of a rajah among the, iv. 56; fire-walk among the, xi. 5 _sq._ Bhujariya, festival in the Central Provinces of India, v. 242 Bhumiya, Himalayan deity, viii. 117, 118 _n._ _Bhut_, demon, xi. 312 Bhutan, demons diverted into images of animals in, viii. 103 Biajas of Borneo, their annual expulsion of evils in a little ship, ix. 200 Biak, island of, precautions against strangers in, iii. 104 Bibili, island off New Guinea, the natives reputed to make wind, i. 322 Bidasari and the golden fish, Malay story of, xi. 147 _sq._, 220 Biddulph, J., on custom at wheat-sowing in Gilgit, ii. 50 _sq._ Biennial cycle, vii. 87 —— festivals, vii. 14, 86 Biggar, “Burning out the Old Year” at ix. 165 Bikol, in Luzon, demon exorcized by beating in, ix. 260