Breton belief that women can be impregnated by the moon, x. 76 —— peasants, their way of getting rain, i. 306 _sq._; throw knives at the wind, i. 329 —— stories of the external soul, xi. 132 _sq._ —— superstitions as to the tides, i. 167 Bretons, their dread of noon, iii. 88 Brewing, continence observed at, iii. 200, 201 _sq._; water to be called by another name in, iii. 395 Brezina, in Slavonia, need-fire at, x. 282 Brhaspati, as a magician, i. 241 Briançon, in Dauphiné, the Bridegroom of the Month of May at, ii. 92 _sq._; “the Cat of the ball-skin” at harvest at, vii. 280 _sq._ Briar-thorn, divination by, x. 242 Bribri Indians of Costa Rica, their ideas as to the uncleanness of women, iii. 147, 149; seclusion of women at menstruation among the, x. 86 Bricknell, J., on a custom of the Carolina Indians, iv. 184 _sq._ Bridal pair, the, at Whitsuntide in Saxony, ii. 91; at rice-harvest in Java, vii. 200 _sq._ Bride tied to tree at marriage, ii. 57; the Whitsuntide, ii. 89, 96; the May, ii. 95; led to or round the hearth at marriage, ii. 221, 230, 231; races for a, ii. 300 _sqq._; contests for a, ii. 305 _sqq._; fishing-net thrown over, iii. 307; dressed as a man, vi. 260; the last, privilege of, ix. 183; not allowed to tread the earth, x. 5; last married, made to leap over bonfire, xi. 22 —— and bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, ii. 91 _sq._; the Midsummer, in Sweden, ii. 92, v. 251; all knots on their garments unloosed, iii. 299 _sq._; carry locked locks at marriage, iii. 308; mock, at bonfires, x. 109 _sq._ Bride of God, the, in a rain-making ceremony, i. 276 ——, name given to last sheaf, vii. 162, 163 —— of the Nile, vi. 38 —— race among Teutonic peoples, ii. 303 _sqq._ Bride, parish of, in the Isle of Man, x. 306, 307 _n._ 1 Bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, ii. 91; girt with a net, iii. 307; dressed as a woman, vi. 260 _sq._; disfigured in order to avert the evil eye, vi. 261; not to touch the ground with his feet, x. 5 —— of May, ii. 91, 93, iv. 266 Bridget’s bed on the night before Candlemas in the Highlands of Scotland and the Isle of Man, ii. 94 _sq._ _See also_ St. Bridget Bridlington, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338 Brie (Isle de France), the May-tree and Father May at, ii. 74 _sq._; farmer tied up in first sheaf at, vii. 221; stranger tied up in sheaf at harvest at, vii. 226; effigy of giant burnt on Midsummer Eve at, xi. 38 Brigit, a Celtic goddess, ii. 95, 240 _sqq._; her Christian namesake and successor at Kildare, ii. 240 _sqq._ _See also_ St. Brigit Brihaspati, Hindoo deity, i. 166, x. 99 _n._ 2 Brimo and Brimos, in the mysteries of Eleusis, ii. 139 Brincker, Dr. P. H., on the sacred sticks representing ancestors among the Herero, ii. 224 _n._ 4 Bringing in Summer, iv. 233, 237, 238, 246 _sqq._ Briony, wreaths of, at Midsummer, x. 210 Brisbane River in Queensland, use of bull-roarers on the, xi. 233 _sqq._