Blows to drive away ghosts, ix. 260 _sqq._ Blue Spring, the, at Syracuse, v. 213 _n._ 1 Bluk, the bull-frog, i. 292 Blu-u Kayans of Borneo, iii. 104; expiation for unchastity among the, ii. 109 _sq._ Blydeuitzigt, in Cape Colony, ix. 16 Boa-constrictor, purification of man who has killed a, iii. 221 _sq._; need of appeasing the soul of a, viii. 296 Boa-constrictors, kings at death turn into, iv. 84, xi. 212 _n._; souls of dead in, viii. 289 _sq._ Boanerges, “sons of thunder,” i. 266 _n._ 1 Boar, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151; grunting like a wild, a charm against sore feet, ii. 22 _sq._; and Adonis, v. 11, viii. 22 _sq._; Attis killed by a, v. 264; corn-spirit as, vii. 298 _sqq._; the Yule, vii. 300 _sqq._, 302 _sq._ _See also_ Boars Boar’s fat poured on novices at initiation in the Andaman Islands, viii. 164 —— head mask worn by actor at a sowing festival, vii. 95 _sq._ —— skin, shoes of, worn by a king at inauguration, x. 4 Boars, evil spirits transferred to, ix. 31; familiar spirits of wizards in, xi. 196 _sq._; lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 203, 205; external human souls in, xi. 207 ——, wild, hunted in Italy, i. 6; in ancient Greece, i. 6 _n._ 6; not to be called by their proper names, iii. 411, 415; annually sacrificed in Cyprus, viii. 23 _n._ 3; their ravages in the corn, viii. 31 _sqq._; eaten to make eater brave, viii. 140. _See also_ Swine Boas, Dr. Franz, on the taboos observed by Esqimaux hunters, iii. 210 _sqq._; on the confession of sins, iii. 214; on the masked dances of the Indians of North-Western America, ix. 375 _sq._; on seclusion of Shuswap girls at puberty, x. 53; on customs observed by mourners among the Bella Coola Indians, xi. 174; on initiation into the wolf society of the Nootka Indians, xi. 270 _sq._; on the relation between clans and secret societies, xi. 273 _n._ 1 Boba or Baba, “the Old Woman,” name given to the last sheaf, vii. 144 _sq._, 223 Bocage of Normandy, rule as to the clipping of wool in the, vi. 134 _n._ 3; “catching the quail,” at harvest in the, vii. 295; games of ball in the, ix. 183 _sq._; Eve of Twelfth Night in the, ix. 316 _sq._; weather of the twelve months predicted from the Twelve Days in the, ix. 323; Midsummer fires in the, x. 185; the Yule log in the, x. 252; torchlight processions on Christmas Eve in the, x. 266 Bock, C., on birth-ceremonies in Laos, vii. 8; on the fear of demons in Laos, ix. 97 Bodia or Bodio, a West African pontiff responsible for the fertility of the earth, i. 353; taboos observed by him, iii. 14 _sq._, 23 Bodies, souls transferred to other, iii. 49 —— of the dead, magical uses made of the, vi. 100 _sqq._; guarded against mutilation, vi. 103; thought to be endowed with magical powers, vi. 103, 104 _sq._ Bodmin, in Cornwall, Lord of Misrule at, ii. 319 _n._ 1