Branch of sacred cedar cut and brought home at wheat-sowing, ii. 50 _sq._; of hawthorn in bloom on May Day, ii. 52; of oak dipped in a spring as a rain-charm, ii. 359; lost soul brought back in a, iii. 67 Branches dipped in water as a rain-charm, i. 248, 250, 309, ii. 46 _sq._; not to be broken or cut in sacred groves, ii. 9, 10, 41 _sqq._; stuck in fields to ensure rain or an abundant crop, ii. 46, 47, 48; stuck in flax-fields to make the flax grow tall, ii. 86; used in exorcism, iii. 109; fatigue transferred to, ix. 8; sickness transferred to, ix. 186. _See also_ Bough, Boughs Brand, John, on the Harvest Queen, vii. 146; on the Yule log, x. 247, 255 Brandenburg, Mark of, fruit-trees girt with straw at Christmas in, ii. 17; race of bride and bridegroom in, ii. 303; race to a sheaf on harvest-field in, vii. 137; cure for headache and giddiness in, ix. 52, 53; cure for toothache in, ix. 60; simples culled at Midsummer in, xi. 48 _Brandons_, the Sunday of the, first Sunday in Lent, x. 110; torches carried about fields and streets, x. 111 _n._ 1 Brands of Midsummer fires a protection against lightning, conflagration, and spells, x. 183; a protection against thunder, x. 191; lighted, carried round cattle, x. 341. _See also_ Sticks, charred Brandy, North American Indian theory of, viii. 147 Bras Basah, a village on the Perak river, ix. 199 Brasidas, funeral games in his honour at Amphipolis, iv. 94 Brass rings as amulets, iii. 31, 314; instruments sounded to frighten away demons, ix. 147 Braunrode in the Harz Mountains, Easter fires at, x. 142 Braunsberg, in East Prussia, the Corn-goat at harvest at, vii. 282 Brauronia, festival of Brauronian Artemis, viii. 41 _n._ 3 Bray, Mrs., on Devonshire custom of “crying the neck,” vii. 265 _sq._ Brazen serpent, the, viii. 281 Brazier, walking through a lighted, xi. 3 _sqq._ Brazil, the Tupinambas of, i. 142, vii. 122; contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210; the Guayana Indians of, iv. 12; the Apinagos of, vi. 145; the Kaua and Kobeua Indians of, vii. 111, ix. 236, 381; observation of the Pleiades by the Indians of, vii. 309 _sq._; the Bororos of, viii. 71, 207 _sq._, xi. 230 _n._; the Botocudos of, viii. 156; the Passes of, viii. 157; the Xomanas of, viii. 157; the Chiambioa Indians of, viii. 208 _n._ 1; the Tupi Indians of, viii. 272; the Guaranis of, x. 56; the Uaupes of, x. 61; effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 128; fires of St. John in, x. 213; the Caripunas of, xi. 230; the Nahuqua of, xi. 230; the Bakairi of, xi. 231