Burgebrach in Bavaria, straw-man burnt on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 232 Burghead, the burning of the Clavie at, iii. 229 _sq._, x. 266 _sq._; the old rampart at, x. 267 _sq._ Burghers or Badagas. _See_ Badagas Burglars, charms employed by, to cause sleep, i. 148 _sq._ Burgundians deposed their kings for failure of the crops, i. 366 Burgundy, Firebrand Sunday in, x. 114 the Yule log in, x. 254 Burial at flood tide, i. 168 alive of unfaithful virgins in Rome and Peru, ii. 228, 244 alive, in other cases, ii. 228 _n._ 5 at night, iii. 15 of the aged, iv. 11 _sq._ in jars, iv. 12 _sq._ of Shrove Tuesday, iv. 228 —— of infants, ix. 45 to ensure their rebirth, iv. 199 _sq._, v. 91, 93 _sqq._ —— under a running stream, iii. 15 at cross-roads, v. 93 _n._ 1 at Gezer, v. 108 _sq._ of Osiris in his rites, vi. 88 —— of the wren in the Isle of Man, viii. 318 _sq._ Burial customs, certain, perhaps designed to ensure reincarnation, i. 101 _sqq._ to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 51,52 —— -grounds, magical stones kept in, i. 163 regarded as holy, ii. 31 deemed sacred, viii. 111 —— rites intended to deceive ghosts or demons, viii. 97 _sqq._ Burials, customs as to shadows at, iii. 80 _sq._ fictitious, to divert the attention of demons from the real burials, viii. 98 _sqq._ passing through narrow openings after, xi. 175 _sq._, 177 _sq._, 178 _sq._ Buring Une, a Kayan goddess, vii. 93 Burkitt, Professor F. C., on Jesus Barabbas, ix. 420 _n._ 1 Burlesques of ecclesiastical ritual, ix. 336 _sq._ Burma, magical images in, i. 62 _sq._ the Shans of, i. 128, 308 the Karens or Karennis of, i. 209, ii. 69, 107, iii. 13, 43, 250, 252, 292, iv. 130 _n._ 1, vii. 10, 189, xi. 157 rain-making by means of fish in, i. 288 _sq._ king of, claims divinity, i. 400 _sq._ the En of, ii. 41 Sagaing district of, ii. 46 Kengtung in, ii. 150 the Kachins of, ii. 237, iii. 200, viii. 120 fire on hearth extinguished after a death in, ii. 267 _n._ 4 kings of, screened from public gaze, iii. 125 _sq._ the Sotih of, iii. 237 royal princes executed without bloodshed in, iii. 242 the Sgaus of, iii. 337 names of the kings of, not to be pronounced by their subjects, iii. 375 the Bghais of, vi. 60 securing the rice-soul in, vii. 189 _sqq._ the Taungthu of, vii. 190 the Szis of Upper, vii. 203 _sq._ custom of threshing rice in, vii. 203 _sq._ head-hunting in, vii. 256 offering of first-fruits to the king of, viii. 116; the Chins of, viii. 121; ravages of rats in, viii. 282 _n._ 8; sacred fish in, viii. 291; heaps of stones or sticks in, ix. 12; belief in demons in, ix. 95 _sq._; expulsion of demons in, ix. 116 _sq._; the tug-of-war in, ix. 175 _sq._ Burmese, their conception of the soul as a butterfly, iii. 51 _sq._; their belief as to ghosts of men who have died a violent death, iii. 90; their conduct during an earthquake, v. 201