Bissagos Islands, natives of, their sacrifices to sacred trees, ii. 16 —— Archipelago, precaution as to spittle in the, iii. 289 Bistritz district of Transylvania, belief as to quail in last corn in the, vii. 295 Bitch, the last sheaf called the, vii. 272 Bites of ants used as purificatory ceremony, iii. 105. _See_ Ants Bithynia, Arrian of, ii. 126; mournful song of reapers in, vii. 216 —— and Pontus, rapid spread of Christianity in, ix. 420 _sq._ Bithynians invoke Attis, v. 282 Biting bark of tree as mode of transferring a malady, ix. 54, 55 —— a sword as a charm, i. 160 Biyârs, the, of North-Western India, their ceremony of “burning the old year,” ix. 230 _n._ 7 Bizya (modern Viza), capital of old Thracian kings, vii. 26, 30 Black, Dr. J. Sutherland, on the burning of Winter at Zurich, iv. 260 _sq._ Black animals in rain-charms, i. 250, 290 _sqq._, ii. 367; as scapegoats, ix. 190, 192, 193 —— bull sacrificed to the dead, iv. 95 —— cats, witches turn into, ii. 334 —— colour in magic, i. 83; in rain-making ceremonies, i. 269 _sq._, iii. 154 —— Corrie of Ben Breck, the giant of, in an Argyleshire tale, xi. 129 _sq._ —— Demeter, vii. 263 —— drink, an emetic, viii. 76 —— Forest, Midsummer fires in the, x. 168 —— goat-skin, in relation to Dionysus, vii. 17 —— god and white god among the Slavs, ix. 92 —— hair, homoeopathic charm to restore, i. 154 —— Isle, Ross-shire, x. 301 —— Mountains, in France, ix. 166; story of sleeping witch in the, iii. 42 —— ox in magic, iii. 154; bath of blood of, iv. 201 —— poplars, mistletoe on, xi. 316, 318 _n._ 6 —— ram sacrificed to Pelops, ii. 300, iv. 92, 104; in magic, iii. 154 —— -snake clan of the Warramunga, v. 100 —— spauld, a disease of cattle, cure for, x. 325 —— three-legged horse ridden by witches, xi. 74 —— victims in rain-making, iii. 154; sacrificed to the dead, iv. 92, 95 —— and white in relation to human scapegoats, ix. 220, 253, 257, 272 Blackened faces, vii. 287, 291, 299, viii. 321, 332, ix. 247, 314, 330; of actors, vii. 27 Blackening faces of warriors, iii. 163; of manslayers, iii. 169, 178, 181, 186 _n._ 1; of girls at puberty, x. 41, 60 Blackfoot Indians, taboos observed by eagle-trappers among the, i. 116; taboos observed by the wives and children of eagle-hunters among the, i. 119; their use of skulls as charms, i. 149 _sq._; their way of bringing on a storm of rain, i. 288; their marriage of the Sun and Moon, ii. 146 _sq._; taboos observed by man who kept the sacred pipe among the, iii. 159 _n._; unwilling to speak their names, iii. 326; their worship of the Pleiades, vii. 311; their propitiation of the eagles which they have killed, viii. 236 Bladders, annual festival of, among the Esquimaux, iii. 206 _sq._, 228; of sea-beasts returned by the Esquimaux to the sea, viii. 247 _sqq._