—— -wife, Dyak story of the, iv. 127 _sq._; Indian story of, iv. 131 Birds, ghosts of slain as, iii. 177 _sq._; cause headache through clipped hair, iii. 270 _sq._, 282; absent warriors called, iii. 330; burnt in honour of Artemis, v. 126 _n._ 2; ancestral spirits in, viii. 123; tongues of, eaten, viii. 147; souls of dead in, viii. 296; as scapegoats, ix. 35 _sq._, 51 _sq._; external souls in, xi. 104, 111, 119, 142, 144, 150; carry seed of mistletoe, xi. 316 ——, language of, learned by means of serpents, i. 158; known to Indian king, iv. 123; learned by eating serpent’s flesh, viii. 146; learned by tasting dragon’s blood, viii. 146 ——, migratory, as representatives of a divinity, vii. 204 _sq._ —— of omen, stories of their origin, iv. 126, 127 _sq._ ——, white, souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 162 Birk, in Transylvania, the harvest Hare at, vii. 280 Birks, Rev. E. B., on harvest custom at Orwell, v. 237 _n._ 4 Birseck, Lenten fires at, x. 119 Birth of children, magical images to ensure the, i. 70 _sqq._; pretence of, at adoption, i. 74 _sq._, at return of supposed dead man, i. 75, at circumcision, i. 75 _sq._; a man’s fortune determined by the day or hour of his, i. 173; from the fire, ii. 195 _sqq._; new fire kindled by friction of wood after a, ii. 239; from a golden image, iii. 113; of child on harvest-field, vii. 150 _sq._, 209. _See also_ Births _and_ Miscarriage Birth, new i. 74 _sqq._; of Brahman sacrificer, simulation of, i. 380 _sq._; through blood in rites of Attis, v. 274 _sq._; of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 155 _sq._; of novices at initiation, xi. 247, 251, 256, 257, 261 ——, premature, iii. 213. _See_ Miscarriage Birth-names of Central American Indians, xi. 214 _n._ 1 —— -trees in Africa, xi. 160 _sqq._; in Europe, xi. 165 Birthday, Greek custom of sacrificing to a dead man on his, i. 105; celebration in China, i. 169 —— of the Sun at the winter solstice, v. 303 _sqq._, x. 246 Birthdays of Apollo and Artemis, i. 32 “Birthplace of Rainy Zeus,” ii. 360 Births, premature, how treated by the Akikuyu, iii. 286, 286 _n._ 6 Bisa chiefs reincarnated in pythons, iv. 193 —— woman, her mode of sowing bananas, vii. 115 Bisaltae, a Thracian tribe, sanctuary of Dionysus among the, vii. 5 Bisection of the year, Celtic, x. 223 Bishnois of the Punjaub, infant burial among the, v. 94 Bishop, Mrs., on cairns in Corea, ix. 11 _n._ 5; on the belief in demons in Corea, ix. 99 _sq._ Bishop, the Boy, on Holy Innocents’ Day, ix. 336 _sqq._ —— of Fools, ix. 312 —— of Innocents, ix. 333 Bismarck Archipelago, iv. 61; magical powers ascribed to chiefs in the, i. 340; magic practised on refuse of food in the, iii. 128 _sq._; reluctance to mention personal names in the, iii. 329; the Melanesians of the, their belief in demons, ix. 83 Bisons, the resurrection of, viii. 256