Boscana, Father Geronimo, on the customs and superstitions of the Californian Indians, vii. 125, viii. 169 _Bosco Sacro_, the grove of Egeria, i. 18 _n._ 4 Bosman, W., on serpent-worship in Guinea, v. 67 Bosnia, hawthorn used as a protection against vampyres in, ix. 153 _n._ 1; need-fire in, x. 286; life-trees of children in, xi. 165 Bosnian Turks, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 74 Bossuet, Bishop, on the Midsummer bonfires, x. 182 Botocudos of Brazil, their reason for eating the flesh of their enemies, viii. 156 Bottesford, in Lincolnshire, mistletoe deemed a remedy for epilepsy at, xi. 83 Bottle, external soul of queen in a, xi. 138 Bouche, Abbé, on West African priestesses, v. 66 _n._ 3, 69 Bougainville Straits, the natives of, their observation of the Pleiades and Orion’s belt, vii. 313; their expulsion of demons, ix. 116; use of bull-roarers in, xi. 229 _n._ Bough, the Golden, xi. 279 _sqq._; plucked by Aeneas, i. 11, ii. 379; and the King of the Wood, i. 11, x. 1; the plucking of it not a piece of bravado, ii. 123 _sq._; grew on an evergreen oak, ii. 379; a branch of mistletoe, xi. 284 _sqq._, 315 _sqq._ _See also_ Golden Bough Boughs, green, a charm against witches, ii. 52-55, 127. _See also_ Branches Boulia district of Queensland, magical pointing bones in the, x. 14 _Bouphonia_, “the murder of the ox,” ritual flight at the, ii. 309 _n._ 2; an Athenian sacrifice, viii. 4 _sqq._ _Bouphonion_, a Greek month, viii. 6 _n._ Bourail, in New Caledonia, ceremony at eating the new yams at, viii. 53 Bourbonnais, the Fox in the corn in, vii. 296; mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy in, xi. 83 Bourbourg, Brasseur de, on Mexican human sacrifices in connexion with the crops, vii. 237 _Bourdifailles_, bonfires on first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 _n._ 1 Bourges, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 242 Bourgogne, in Ain, the Fox in the last sheaf at, vii. 297 Bourke, Captain J. G., on the Pimas, iii. 184; on mock human sacrifices in Arizona, iv. 215; on the totem clans of the Zuni, viii. 178; on the bull-roarer, xi. 231 Bourlet, A., on the belief of the Thay in spirits, ix. 97 _sqq._ Bouzygai, “Ox-yokers,” priestly family at Eleusis, curses uttered by the, vii. 108 _sq._ _Bouzygios_, epithet applied to the Sacred Ploughing at Athens, vii. 109 _n._ 1 Bovillae, King of the Sacred Rites at, i. 44 _n._ 1; Vejovis at, ii. 179; the Julian family at, ii. 179, 180 _n._ Bowels, novice at initiation supplied by spirits with a new set of, xi. 235 _sqq._ Bowes, in Yorkshire, need-fire at, x. 287 Box, strayed soul caught in, iii. 45, 70, 76; external soul of king in a, xi. 102, 149; external soul of cannibal in a, xi. 117. _See also_ Boxes —— -tree, external soul of giant in a, xi. 133 Boxers at funerals, iv. 97