Brothers reviled by sisters for good luck, i. 279; of king put to death on his accession, iii. 243; childless persons named after their younger, iii. 332, 333; ancient Egyptian story of the Two, xi. 134 _sqq._ Brothers and sisters, marriages of, in royal families, iv. 193 _sq._, v. 44; in ancient Egypt, vi. 214 _sqq._; their intention to keep the property in the family, vi. 215 _sq._ —— -in-law, their names not to be pronounced, iii. 338, 342, 343, 344, 345 Brown, A. R., as to the Andaman Islanders, ii. 254 _n._; on the beliefs of the West Australian aborigines as to the causes of childbirth, v. 104 _sqq._ Brown, Dr. Burton, on a burial custom of the Nagas, viii. 100 _n._ 2 Brown, Dr. George, on the magical powers ascribed to chiefs in New Britain, i. 340; on snakes as reincarnations of chiefs, v. 84; on the annual appearance of the _Palolo veridis_ in the Samoan Sea, ix. 142 _n._ 1; on the seclusion of girls at puberty in New Ireland, x. 32 _sqq._; on external soul in Melanesia, xi. 199 Bruck in Styria, the last sheaf called the Corn-mother at, vii. 134 Bructeri, a German tribe, worship a woman, i. 391 Bruges, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70 Brughe, John, his cure for bewitched cattle, x. 324 _sq._ Brugsch, H., on Egyptian names for a year, vi. 26 _n._ 1; on the Sothic period, vi. 37 _n._; on the grave of Osiris at Philae, vi. 111; on Isis as a personified corn-field, vi. 117 Bruguière, Mgr., on the fear of demons in Siam, ix. 97; on the annual expulsion of the devil in Siam, ix. 150 _sq._ Brund (or brand), the Christmas, the Yule log, x. 257 Brunhild, Queen of Iceland, the wooing of, ii. 306 _sq._ Brunnen, Twelfth Night at, ix. 165 Brunshaupten, in Mecklenburg, the Wheat-wolf at harvest at, vii. 274 Brunswick, custom at Whitsuntide in, ii. 56 _n._ 3; May King at Whitsuntide in, ii. 84, 85; the May Bride at Whitsuntide in, ii. 96; dramatic contest between Summer and Winter in, iv. 257; toothache nailed into a wall or a tree in, ix. 62; belief as to menstruous women in, x. 96; Easter bonfires in, x. 140; need-fire in, x. 277 _sq._ Brushes used in magic, i. 132 Brutus, D. Junius, his mitigation of human sacrifices at graves, iv. 143 _n._ 4 ——, L. Junius, one of the first consuls, ii. 290; his feigned imbecility, ii. 291 Brutus, the assassin, his meeting with Cicero, i. 5 Bryant, Jacob, and Noah’s ark, i. 334 Bubastis, shrine of, at Nemi, i. 5 Bubui River, in German New Guinea, viii. 295 Buch, Max, on a ceremony of the Wotyaks, ii. 146 Buchan, Hallowe’en fires in, x. 232 _sq._ Buchanan, Francis, on Burmese _nats_, ix, 175 _sq._ _Bûche de Noël_, the Yule log, x. 249 Buckie, names tabooed by fishermen in the village of, iii. 395