—— cure by burying effigy of sick man, viii. 103 —— custom on return from a funeral, iii. 51 —— doctrine of _nats_, ix. 175 —— Lent, ix. 349 _sq._ —— mode of rain-making, i. 284; of disposing of cut hair and nails, iii. 277 —— recall of lost soul, iii. 51 _sq._ —— superstitions as to the head, iii. 253 Burne, Miss C. S., on Devonshire custom of “crying the neck,” vii. 266 ——, Miss C. S., and Miss G. F. Jackson, on “Souling Day” in Shropshire, vi. 78 _sq._; on the fear of witchcraft in Shropshire, x. 342 _n._ 4 Burning refuse of food as a magical means of causing the eater to fall ill, i. 341; of sacred trees or poles, ii. 141 _sq._; of cut hair and nails to prevent them being used in sorcery, iii. 281 _sqq._; of Melcarth, v. 110 _sqq._; of Sandan and Hercules, v. 117 _sqq._, 388 _sqq._; of Cilician gods, v. 170 _sq._; of Sardanapalus, v. 172 _sqq._; of Croesus, v. 174 _sqq._; of a god, v. 188 _sq._; of last sheaf of corn, vii. 146; of the Clavie at Burghead, x. 266 _sq._; of a bewitched animal or part of it to cause the witch to appear, x. 303, 305, 307 _sq._; of human beings in the fires, xi. 21 _sqq._; of live animals at spring and Midsummer festivals, xi. 38 _sqq._; the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, xi. 41 _sq._, 43 _sq._; of human victims annually, xi. 286 _n._ 2 —— alive as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 243; human victims to prolong king’s life, vi. 226; human victims of Fire-god, ix. 301; animals to stay cattle-plague, x. 300 _sqq._ —— effigies of the Carnival, iv. 223, 224, 228 _sq._, 229 _sq._, 232 _sq._; of Shrove Tuesday, iv. 227 _sqq._; of Winter at Zurich, iv. 260 _sq._; in the Midsummer fires, x. 195 —— the Easter Man, x. 144 “—— the Old Wife (Old Woman),” x. 116, 120 Burning the Old Witch, vii. 224 “—— the Old Year,” at Biggar, ix. 165; among the Biyars of North-Western India, ix. 230 _n._ 7 —— the Witches (invisible or represented by effigies) on May Day in the Isle of Man, ii. 54, x. 157, in the Tyrol, ix. 158 _sq._; on Walpurgis Night in Bohemia, ix. 161, x. 159, in Silesia and Saxony, ix. 161, x. 160; on Twelfth Night in Herefordshire, ix. 319; on the first Sunday in Lent in Luxemburg, the Tyrol, and Swabia, x. 116, in Switzerland, x. 118 _sq._; on Beltane (May Day) in Scotland, x. 154; at Hallowe’en in Scotland, x. 232 _sq._; “Burning the Witches” name for fires of European festivals, xi. 43 —— witches (in flesh and blood) among the Baganda, ix. 19; at Leith, ix. 165; in Germany, x. 6; after shaving them, xi. 158 Burning discs thrown into the air, x. 116 _sq._, 119, 143, 165, 166, 168 _sq._, 172 —— -glass or mirror, fire kindled by, ii. 207 _n._ 1, 243, 244 _n._ 1