Brazil, Indians of, their rule as to hamstringing deer, i. 115; their charm to strengthen a girl’s teeth, i. 153; power of medicine-men among the, i. 358 _sq._; their explanation of headache, iii. 40; death from imagination among the, iii. 136; think that wind may be caused by reading, iii. 231; their indifference to death, iv. 138; their belief in the noxious influence of the moon on children, vi. 148; play various games of cat’s cradle, vii. 103 _n._ 1; women’s agricultural labours among the, vii. 122; their belief in the homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii. 139; their apologies to the ounces which they have caught in traps, viii. 235; at mouth of Amazon, beat themselves with an aquatic plant to increase their generative force, ix. 264; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 56, 59 _sq._; ordeals undergone by young men among the, x. 62 _sq._ ——, Indians of North-Western, their masked dances, vii. 111 _sq._, ix. 236, 381 Bread, leavened, Flamen Dialis forbidden to touch, iii. 13; fast from, in mourning for Attis, v. 272; communion, baked from first corn cut, viii. 51; eaten sacramentally as the body of a god, viii. 86 _sqq._; unleavened, baked with new corn, viii. 136; the sacramental use of, viii. 167; reverence for, x. 13 Bread-fruit, magical stones to promote the growth of, i. 162 _sq._, 164; ceremony at eating the new, viii. 52 _sq._; tree planted over navel-string of child, xi. 163 Breadalbane, use of a scapegoat in, ix. 209; “hill of the fires” in, x. 149; treatment of mad cow in, x. 326 Breasted, Professor J. H., on the eye of Horus, vi. 121 _n._ 3; on Amenophis IV., vi. 123 _n._ 1; on the Sed festival, vi. 156 _n._ 1 Breath, holy fire not to be blown upon with the, ii. 241; of chief sacred, iii. 136, 256; of dying chief caught by his successor, iv. 198; not to defile sacred flame, v. 191 “——, scoring above the,” cutting a witch on the forehead, x. 315 _n._ 2 Breathing on a person as a mode of purification, iii. 149 Breconshire, the sin-eater in, ix. 43 Breech-cloth worn by widow to keep off her husband’s ghost, iii. 143 Breezes, magical means of securing, iv. 287 Breitenbrunn, the “Charcoal Man” at Midsummer at, xi. 26 _n._ 2 Brekinjska, in Slavonia, need-fire at, x. 282 Brenner, J. von, on savage fear of being photographed, iii. 99 Bresse, the _Mariée_ in May in, ii. 96; “cutting off the fox’s tail” at harvest in, vii. 268; the King of the Bean in, ix. 315 _n._ 1; Midsummer bonfires in, x. 189 Brest, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 184 Bret Harte, _Relieving Guard_, iv. 66 _n._ 4; on the Spanish missions in California, viii. 171 _n._ 1 Breteuil, canton of, Midsummer fires in the, x. 187 Brethren of the Free Spirit, i. 408 —— of the Ploughed Fields (_Fratres Arvales_), a Roman college of priests, ii. 122, vi. 239, ix. 232. _See also_ Arval Brothers