Bland, J. O. P., on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 274 _sq._ Blankenfelde, in district of Potsdam, the Old Man at harvest at, vii. 221 Blankenheim in the Eifel, the King of the Bean at, ix. 313 _Blay_, men’s clubhouse in the Pelew Islands, vi. 265 Bleeding trees, ii. 18, 20, 33 Blekinge, Swedish province, the Midsummer Bride and Bridegroom in, ii. 92, v. 251 Blemishes, bodily, a ground for putting kings to death, iv. 36 _sqq._; physical, transferred to witches, x. 160 _n._ 1 “Blessers” or sacred kings, iii. 125 _n._ Blessing of maize, game, and fish by medicine-men among the Bororos, viii. 71 _sq._ Blighting effect of illicit love on the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 _sqq._ Blind bull sacrificed at the foundation of a town, vi. 249; sacrificed before an army going to war, vi. 250 —— cat in homoeopathic magic, i. 153 —— Tree, the, i. 147 Blindfolded reapers, vii. 144, 153 _sq._ Blindness, charm to cause, i. 147 —— of Hother, x. 279 _n._ 4 Block, the Yule, x. 247 Blocksberg, dance of the witches on the, ix. 163 _n._ 1; the resort of witches, x. 171; the Mount of the Witches, xi. 74 Blood shed at circumcision and subincision, uses of, i. 92, 94 _sq._; drawn from virgin bride, i. 94; the flow of, arrested by blood-stones, i. 165; sympathetic connexion between wounded person and his shed blood, i. 205; of contracting parties sprinkled on their footprints in making a treaty, i. 211; used to imitate rain, i. 256, 257 _sq._; smeared on regalia, i. 363; smeared on king’s throne, i. 365; of sacrificial victim, inspiration by sucking the, i. 381 _sq._; offered to trees, ii. 13, 16, 19, 34, 44, 47, 367; smeared on wood-work of house to appease the tree-spirits, ii. 39; smeared on house as an expiatory rite, ii. 109 _n._ 1; of incestuous persons, blighting effects attributed to the, ii. 110 _sq._; smeared on new fire-boards, ii. 225; smeared on sacred trees, ii. 367; put on doorposts, iii. 15; smeared on person as a purification, iii. 104, 115, 219; of slain, supposed effect of it on the slayer, iii. 169; drawn from bodies of manslayers, iii. 176, 180; tabooed, iii. 239 _sqq._; not eaten, iii. 240 _sq._; soul in the, iii. 240, 241, 247, 250; of game poured out, iii. 241; spilt on ground, covered up, iii. 241, 245, 246; unwillingness to shed, iii. 243, 246 _sq._; received on bodies of kinsfolk, iii. 244 _sq._; drops of, effaced, iii. 245 _sq._; horror of, iii. 245; spilt, used by magicians for evil purposes, iii. 246; of chief sacred, iii. 248; of women, dread of, iii. 250 _sq._; fetish priests allowed to drink fresh blood, iii. 291; of sacrifice splashed on door-posts, house-posts, etc., iv. 97, 175, 176 _n._ 1; remission of sins through the shedding of, v. 299; used in expiation for homicide, v. 299 _n._ 2; not to be shed in certain sacrifices, vi.