Boxes opened in house to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296; or arks, sacred, x. 11 _sq._ _See also_ Box Boxing, in the pancratium, vii. 71 _n._ 5, viii. 131 Boxwood blessed on Palm Sunday, x. 184, xi. 47 Boy and girl produce need-fire by friction of wood, xi. 281 —— Bishop on Holy Innocents’ Day, ix. 336 _sqq._ Boys of living parents in ritual, vi. 236 _sqq._; dressed as girls to avert the Evil Eye, vi. 260; marriage customs to ensure the birth of, vi. 262; at initiation thought to be swallowed by wizards, xi. 233; at initiation thought to be born again, xi. 246 _sqq._ Brabant, Whitsuntide custom in, ii. 80; Midsummer fires in, x. 194; St. Peter’s bonfires in, x. 195; wicker giants in, xi. 35 Bracelets as amulets, iii. 55, 315, x. 92 Bradbury, Professor J. B., on hemlock as an anaphrodisiac, ii. 139 _n._ 1 Braemar Highlanders, their Hallowe’en fires, x. 233 _sq._ Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the Hindoo Trinity, i. 225 Brahman, the Hindoo creator, x. 95 Brahman, priest, derivation of name, i. 229; not to blow a fire with his mouth, ii. 241; called “twice born,” xi. 276. _See also_ Brahmans Brahman boys sacrificed, vii. 244; forbidden to see the sun, x. 68 _n._ 2 —— charms by treading on a stone, i. 160 —— fire-priests, ii. 247 _sqq._ —— householder supposed to become a deity through sacrifice, i. 380; new birth of the, i. 380 _sq._ —— marriage ceremony, i. 160 —— marriage in Southern India, bride dressed as a boy at, vi. 260 —— student, his cut hair and nails, iii. 277; his observances at end of his studentship, x. 20 —— teachers, taboos observed by, iii. 239 —— theology, gods at first mortal in, i. 373 _n._ 1 —— women in rain-making ceremonies, i. 283 _Brâhmanas_, the magical nature of the sacrifices prescribed in the, i. 228 _sq._ Brahmanic ritual at inauguration of a king, x. 4 Brahmanism akin to shamanism, i. 229; vestiges of, under Mohammedanism, ix. 90 _n._ 1 Brahmans deemed superior to the gods, i. 226; morning offerings of the, i. 314; thrice-born, i. 381; divinity of the, i. 403 _sq._; their common and secret names, iii. 322; the ceremonial swinging of, iv. 150, 156 _sq._; on transubstantiation, viii. 89; first-fruits of sugar-cane given to, viii. 119; sacrificial custom of the, ix. 25; as human scapegoats, ix. 42 _sq._, 44 _sq._; their theory of sacrifice, ix. 410 _sq._ Brahmapootra, head-hunting tribes in the valley of the, iv. 13 Brain, drippings of, used to acquire wisdom of dead, viii. 163 _sq._ Brains of enemies eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 152 Braller in Transylvania, the hanging of Carnival at, iv. 230 _sq._; “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 247 _sqq._; the Harvest-cock at, vii. 276 Bramble, crawling under a, as a cure for whooping-cough, etc., xi. 180 Bran úa Faeláin, King of Leinster, saved by the voluntary death of fifty monks, iv. 159 _n._ 1