Buckthorn, a charm against witches on May Day, ii. 54; a protection against thunderbolts, ii. 191 _n._ 1; torch of, at a Roman marriage, ii. 191 _n._ 1; a protection against witches, ii. 191, ix. 153 _n._ 1, 163; used in making fire by friction, ii. 251; chewed to keep off ghosts, ix. 153; used to beat cattle, ix. 266 Buckwheat cultivated in Burma, vii. 242 Bucolium at Athens, vii. 30 Buddha appealed to for rain, i. 251, 299; image of, whipped in drought, i. 297 _n._ 7; images of, drenched as a rain-charm, i. 308; imitated by a king of Burma, i. 400; thought to be incarnate in the Grand Lamas, i. 411; images of, iii. 253; transmigrations of, viii. 299, 301, ix. 41; date of his death, viii. 302 _n._ 7; in relation to spirits, ix. 97; offerings to, ix. 150 —— and Buddhism, vi. 159 —— and the crocodile, Indian story, xi. 102 _n._ 4 ——, Footprint of, in Siam, iii. 275 Buddhas, living, i. 410 _sq._ Buddhism, Tibetan form of, iii. 20; spiritual declension of, v. 310 _sq._; in relation to lower religions, ix. 89, 90 _n._ 1, 94, 95 _sqq._; in Burma, ix. 95 _sq._; the pope of, ix. 223 Buddhist animism not a philosophical theory, ii. 13 _sq._ —— Lent, the, ix. 349 _sq._ —— monk, who sent his soul out of himself, ii. 49 _sq._ —— monks, suicide of, iv. 42 _sq._; ceremony at the funeral of, ix. 175 —— priests expel demons, ix. 116 Buddhists of Ceylon, their propitiation of demons, ix. 90 _n._ 1; the Laosians of Siam nominal, ix. 97 Budding of a bean an omen, ii. 344 Budge, E. A. Wallis, on trinities of Egyptian gods, iv. 5 _n._ 3; on goddess Net, v. 282 _n._; on an Egyptian funeral rite, vi. 15 _n._ 2; on Isis, vi. 115 _sq._; on the nature of Osiris, vi. 126 _n._ 2; on the solar theory of Osiris, vi. 131 _n._ 3; on the historical reality of Osiris, vi. 160 _n._ 1; on Khenti-Amenti, vi. 198 _n._ 2; on human sacrifices in ancient Egypt, vii. 259 _n._ 3; on the shrines of Osiris, vii. 260 _n._ 2; on the fear of demons among the ancient Egyptians, ix. 103 _sq._ Buduna tribe of West Australia, their beliefs as to the birth of children, v. 104 _sq._ Buecheler, F., his corruption of the text of Petronius, ix. 253 _n._ 2 Buffalo sacrificed for human victim, vii. 249; external souls of a clan in a, xi. 151; a Batta totem, xi. 223 Buffalo-bull, name given to the last sheaf, vii. 289 —— calf, sins of dead transferred to a, ix. 36 _sq._ —— clan in Uganda, x. 3 —— dance to ensure a supply of buffaloes, ix. 171 —— Society among the Omahas, i. 249 Buffaloes not to be mentioned by their proper name, iii. 407, 408, 412; sacrificed instead of young girls, iv. 124; propitiation of dead, viii. 229, 231; their death bewailed, viii. 242; the resurrection of, viii. 256; revered by the Todas, viii. 314; as scapegoats, ix. 190, 191; external human souls in, xi. 207, 208 Buffooneries at the Festival of Fools, ix. 335 _sq._