222 _n._ 2; of sacrificial horse, use made of, viii. 42; drawn from men as a religious rite, viii. 75, 91 _sq._; of men drunk to acquire their qualities, viii. 148, 150, 151, 152; as a means of communion with a deity, viii. 316; fatigue let out with, ix. 12; of children used to knead a paste, ix. 129; drawn from ears as penance, ix. 292; girls at puberty forbidden to see, x. 46; drawn from women who do not menstruate, x. 81 Blood, bath of ox, iv. 35, 201; bath of bull’s, in the rites of Attis, v. 274 _sqq._ —— of bear drunk, viii. 146 —— of beavers not allowed to fall on ground, viii. 240 _n._ 2 —— of childbirth, supposed dangerous infection of, iii. 152 _sqq._; received on heads of friends or slaves, iii. 245 ——, the Day of, in the festival of Attis, v. 268, 285 —— of dragon imparts knowledge of language of birds, viii. 146 ——, human, strengthening and fertilizing virtue attributed to, i. 85 _sqq._, 90 _sqq._, 105; offered at grave, i. 90 _sq._, 101; given to sick people, i. 91; used to knit men together, i. 92; used in rain-making ceremonies, i. 256, 257 _sq._, xi. 232 _sq._; offered to the dead, iv. 92 _sq._, 104; libations of, poured on grave of Pelops, iv. 92; mixed with maize and eaten as a blessed food, viii. 91 _sq._ —— of human victims in rain-making ceremonies, iv. 20; smeared on faces of idols, iv. 185; sprinkled on seed, vii. 239, 251; scattered on field, vii. 244, 251 Blood of lamb sprinkled on people, viii. 315 ——, menstruous, dread of, x. 76; disastrous effect of seeing, x. 77; deemed fatal to cattle, x. 80; miraculous virtue attributed to, x. 82 _sq._; medicinal application of, x. 98 _n._ 1 —— of pigs in purificatory rites, ii. 107, 108, 109, v. 299 _n._ 2, ix. 262 ——, royal, reluctance to spill, ii. 228; not to be shed on the ground, iii. 241 _sqq._ —— of St. John found on St. John’s wort and other plants at Midsummer, xi. 56, 57 —— of sheep poured on image of god as a sin-offering, x. 82 —— of slain men tasted by their slayers, viii. 154 _sqq._ Blood-brotherhood formed by woodman with the tree which he fells, ii. 19 _sq._; between men and animals among the Fans, xi. 201, 226 _n._ 1; between men and animals among the Indians of Honduras, xi. 214, 226 _n._ 1 —— -covenant, iii. 130, viii. 154 _sqq._; by mixture of blood between husband and wife, viii. 69. _See also_ Blood-brotherhood —— -lickers among the Betsileo, iii. 246 —— -stones thought to arrest the flow of blood, i. 81, 165 Bloodless altars, ix. 307 Bloomfield, Professor Maurice, on the magical nature of Vedic ritual, i. 229 —— River, Queensland, magical effigies on the, i. 62; namesakes of the dead change their names on the, iii. 355 _sq._ Blowing on a fire, forbidden to sacred chiefs, iii. 136, 256; upon knots, as a charm, iii. 302, 304 —— of trumpets in the festival of Attis, v. 268