—— -roarers, sacred, used in magical ceremonies to multiply totems, i. 88; used to make fine weather, i. 265, with note 4; sounded to make wind blow, i. 324, xi. 232; whirled at tearing dogs to pieces, vii. 19 _n._ 1; whirled to make the crops thrive and to multiply game, vii. 104, 106 _sq._, 110, xi. 230 _sq._, 232; fertilizing virtue attributed to, by savages, vii. 106, xi. 230 _sq._; called the “mother of yams,” vii. 106; swung at Greek mysteries, vii. 110; sounded at initiation of lads, viii. 295, xi. 227, 228 _sqq._, 233 _sqq._, 240, 241; swung at kindling of sacred fire, x. 133; sound of, thought to resemble thunder, xi. 228 _sqq._; sounded at festivals of the dead, xi. 230 _n._; made from trees struck by lightning, xi. 231; called “thunder and lightning,” xi. 232; magical instrument for causing thunder, wind, and rain, xi. 233; sound of, supposed to be the voice of a spirit, xi. 233, 234, 235; not to be seen by women, xi. 234, 235, 242; called by name which means a ghost or spirit of the dead, xi. 242; called by the same name as the monster who swallows lads at initiation, xi. 242; kept in men’s clubhouse, xi. 242; named after dead men, xi. 242 _n._ 1 Bull-shaped deities, vii. 3 _sqq._ Bull’s blood drunk as means of inspiration, i. 381 _sq._; as ordeal, i. 382 _n._ 1; bath of, in the rites of Attis, v. 274 _sq._ —— hide, bride seated on a, vi. 246; cut in strips and pegged down round the site of a new town, vi. 249 —— skin, body of the dead placed in a, vi. 15 _n._ 2 Bullets, magical treatment of, i. 110; magical modes of averting, i. 130; blessed by St. Hubert used to shoot witches with, x. 315 _sq._ Bullock, bewitched, burnt to cause the witch to appear, x. 303 Bullocks as scapegoats, ix. 34, 35 Bulloms, the, of Sierra Leone, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 318 Bulls sacrificed to water-spirits, ii. 157; husband-god at Hierapolis seated on, v. 163; sacrificed at caves of Pluto, v. 206; sacrificed to Persephone, v. 213 _n._ 1; sacrificed to dead chiefs, vi. 191; eaten to make eater brave, viii. 140; as scapegoats in Cashmeer, ix. 190 _n._ 5; as scapegoats in ancient Egypt, ix. 216 _sq._ ——, sacred, of ancient Egypt, viii. 34 _sqq._ Bulmer, J., on concealment of personal names among the aborigines of Victoria, iii. 321 Bundelcund, stopping rain in, i. 296 Bundles of sticks representing ancestors, ii. 214, 216 Bunjil Kraura, a wind-maker of the Kurnai, i. 324 Bunsen, Baron C. C. J., on St. Hippolytus, i. 21 _n._ 2 Bunyoro, in Central Africa, scapegoats sent to, ix. 195 Bunzlau, district of Silesia, last sheaf made up in shape of ox in, vii. 289 _sq._ Burchard, Bishop of Worms, his condemnation of a heathen practice, xi. 191 _Bures_, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 110 _n._ 1, 111 _n._ 1 Burford, in Oxfordshire, Midsummer giant and dragon at, xi. 37