Bonfires on St. John’s Day (Midsummer Day) in Esthonia, iv. 280; leaping over, iv. 262, ix. 159; on St. John’s Eve, dances round, v. 245; on Walpurgis Night to keep off witches, ix. 163; on the Eve of Twelfth Day, ix. 316 _sqq._; supposed to protect against conflagrations, x. 107, 108; lit by the persons last married, x. 107, 109; a protection against witchcraft, x. 108, 109, 154; a protection against sickness, x. 108, 109; a protection against sorcery, x. 156; quickening and fertilizing influence of, x. 336 _sqq._; omens of marriage drawn from, x. 338 _sq._; protect fields against hail, x. 344; protect houses against lightning and conflagration, x. 344; at festivals in India, xi. 1 _sqq._ _See also_ Fires Bonfires, Midsummer, ii. 65; intended to drive away dragons, x. 161; protect cattle against witchcraft, x. 188; thought to ensure good crops, x. 188, 336 Bongo, the, of the Upper Nile, magical powers of chiefs among, i. 347 Boni, Commendatore G., on the Vestal fire, ii. 186 _n._ 1 Boni, in Celebes, etiquette at the court of the king of, iv. 40 Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, x. 270 Bonnach stone in a Celtic story, xi. 126 Bonnets, special, worn by women at menstruation, iii. 146 Bonny River, human sacrifices at mouth of the, ii. 157 _sq._ Bontoc, in Luzon, sacred trees of the natives of, ii. 30; human sacrifices at planting and reaping rice in, vii. 240 Booandik tribe of South Australia, their fear of women’s blood, iii. 251; special form of speech used between relations by marriage in the, iii. 346 _sq._ Boobies, the aborigines of Fernando Po, their sacred king, iii. 8 _sq._ Booginese. _See_ Buginese _Book of Acaill_, ancient Irish work, iv. 39 —— _of the Dead_, the ancient Egyptian, vi. 13, vii. 215, ix. 103 —— _of Rewards and Penalties_, Chinese work, i. 61 —— _of Rights_, ancient Irish work, iii. 12 _n._ 2 Booth of Orestes, i. 26 Bor, the ancient Tyana, Hittite monument at, v. 122 _n._ 1 Bor tribe of Dinka, their rain-maker, iv. 32 Borâna Gallas, custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 _n._ 1 Borans, their custom of sacrificing their children to a sky-spirit, iv. 181 Bordeaux, May-poles at, ii. 69; magical use of knotted cords at, iii. 299; “killing the Bull” at threshing near, vii. 291 _Bordes_, torches carried on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 _n._ 1 Borewell, the, in Northumberland, resorted to by barren women, ii. 161 Borlase, William, on the Cornish custom of the Maypole, ii. 67; on Midsummer fires in Cornwall, x. 199 Bormus, mournful song of Mariandynian reapers, vii. 216, 264; compared to Lityerses, vii. 257 Born again, pretence of being, i. 74 _sqq._, iii. 113. _See also_ Birth, new —— “of an oak or a rock,” i. 100 _n._ 1 —— thrice, said of Brahmans, i. 381