British Columbia, Indians of, their dislike of telling their own names, iii. 328; respect the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 44; their address to the first fish of the season, viii. 253; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 46 _sqq._; dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the, x. 89 _sq._; rites of initiation among the, xi. 270 _sqq._ ——, Koskimo Indians of, xi. 229 ——, the Kwakiutl of, i. 263, iii. 53, 188, 386, viii. 220, 250, xi. 152, 186 ——, the Shuswap Indians of, i. 265, iii. 83, 142, viii. 226, 238, x. 53, xi. 174 _n._ 2, 276 _n._ 1, 297 _n._ 3 ——, the Thompson Indians of, i. 132, ii. 208, viii. 81, 133, 140, 207, 226, 268, ix. 154 _n._, x. 49, 89 _sq._, 98 _n._ 1, xi. 275, 297 Britomartis and Minos, iv. 73 Brittany, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167 _sq._; the Veneti of, ii. 353; belief as to falling stars in, iv. 66; Burial of Shrove Tuesday or of the Carnival in, iv. 229 _sq._; Feast of All Souls in, vi. 69; belief as to warts and the moon in, vi. 149; Mother-sheaf at harvest in, vii. 135, 209; custom of sticking pins into a saint’s image in, ix. 70; riddles asked after a burial in, ix. 121 _sq._, _n._; forecasting the weather for the year in, ix. 323 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, x. 183 _sqq._; stones thrown into the Midsummer fires in, x. 240; the Yule log in, x. 253; mistletoe hung over doors of stables and byres in, xi. 287; fern-seed used by treasure-seekers in, xi. 288 Broceliande, the wild woods of, i. 306 _Brochs_, prehistoric ruins, x. 291 Brockelmann, C., on the Assyrian eponymate, iv. 116 Brocken, in the Harz mountains, associated with witches, x. 160 _n._ 1, 171 _n._ 3 Brodek, in Moravia, drama of Summer and Winter at, iv. 257 _Bromios_, epithet of Dionysus, vii. 2 _n._ 1 Bromo, volcano in Java, worshipped, v. 220 _sq._ Bronze employed in expiatory rites, iii. 226 _n._ 6; priests to be shaved with, iii. 226 —— Age, in Denmark, ii. 351; rock-carving of the, in Sweden, vii. 129 _n._ 1 —— knife to cut priest’s hair, iii. 14 —— ploughs used by Etruscans at founding cities, iv. 157 Brooke, Rajah, of Sarawak, viii. 211; supposed to fertilize the rice-crops, i. 361 _sq._ Broom, a protective against witchcraft, x. 210 Brooms used to sweep misfortune out of house, ix. 5 Broomstick in rain-making, i. 275 Broomsticks, witches ride on, ix. 162, 163 Brother of a god, v. 51; dead elder, worshipped, vi. 175 —— and sister not allowed to mention each other’s names, iii. 344 “Brother” and “sister,” titles given by men and women to their sex totems, xi. 215, 216, 218 Brotherhood formed with trees by sucking their sap, ii. 19 _sq._; of the Green Wolf at Jumièges in Normandy, x. 185 _sq._ _See also_ Blood-brotherhood