Bilaspur or Bilaspore, twirling spindles forbidden in, while men are in council, i. 114; way of stopping rain in, i. 253 _sq._; iron as an amulet in, iii. 234 _sq._; women’s hair unknotted at childbirth in, iii. 298; temporary rajah in, iv. 154; infant burial in, v. 94 _sq._; annual festival of the dead in, vi. 60; new-born children placed in winnowing-fans in, vii. 6 _sq._; cairns to which passers-by add stones in, ix. 27 _n._ 4; the Rajah of, food eaten out of his dead hand by a Brahman, ix. 44 _sq._ Bilda, in Algeria, nails knocked into olive-tree as a cure at, ix. 60 Bilqula. _See_ Bella Coola Bima, in Celebes, sacred horse at, i. 364 ——, a district of Sambawa, human foundation-sacrifices in, iii. 90 _sq._ Bin-Thuan, the Chams of, ii. 28, viii. 56 Binbinga tribe of Northern Australia, burial customs of the, i. 102 _sq._; cannibalism among the, i. 106 _sq._; their rites of initiation, xi. 234 _sq._; initiation of medicine-man in the, xi. 239 Binder of last sheaf represents the Corn-mother, vii. 150, 253; tied up in straw or corn-stalks, vii. 220, 221; called the Beggar-man, vii. 231; called the Wolf, vii. 273 _sq._; called Goat, vii. 283 Binders of corn, contests between, vii. 136, 137, 138, 218 _sq._, 220, 221, 222, 253 Binding up a cleft stick or tree a mode of barricading the road against a ghostly pursuer, xi. 176 Bingfield, the Borewell near, ii. 161 _Binsenschneider_, vii. 230 _n._ 5 Binuas of the Malay Peninsula use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 405 Bion, the atheist, his attempts to avert death, ii. 191 Bion, Greek poet, on the scarlet anemone, v. 226 _n._ 1 Bir, a tribal hero of the Bhuiyas, xi. 6 Birbhum district of Bengal, rain-making in the, i. 278 Birch, a protection against witches, ii. 54; crowns of, ii. 64; leaves of, girl clad in, ii. 80; used to kindle need-fire, x. 291 ——, branches of, on Midsummer Day, x. 177, 196; a protection against witchcraft, xi. 185 —— and plane, fire made by the friction of, x. 220 Birch, sprigs of, a protection against witches, ix. 162; used to beat people with at Easter and Christmas, ix. 269, 270 —— -tree dressed in woman’s clothes, ii. 64, 141 —— -trees used to keep off witches, ii. 54, 55, xi. 20 _n._; gout transferred to, ix. 56 _sq._; set up at Midsummer, x. 177; mistletoe on, xi. 315 —— -wreath at Whitsuntide, girls kiss each other through a, ii. 93 Bird, Miss I. L., on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 184 _n._ 1 Bird, soul conceived as a, iii. 33 _sqq._, vii. 181, 182 _n._ 1; soul of a tree in a, vi. 111 _n._ 1; corn-spirit as a, vii. 295 _sq._; disease transferred to, xi. 187; brings first fire to earth, xi. 295 —— called “the soul of Osiris,” vi. 110 —— -chief of the Sea Dyaks, ix. 383, 384 —— -lime made from mistletoe, xi. 317 —— of prey, inoculation with a, viii. 162 ——, soul of the rice as a, vii. 182 _n._ 1