—— wheels rolled down hill, x. 116, 117 _sq._, 119, 141, 143, 161, 162 _sq._, 163 _sq._, 166, 173, 174, 201, 328, 334, 337 _sq._; rolled over fields at Midsummer to fertilize them, x. 191, 340, _sq._; perhaps to burn witches, x. 345 Burnings for dead kings of Judah, v. 177 _sq._; for dead Jewish Rabbis at Meiron, v. 178 Burns, Robert, on John Barleycorn, v. 230 _sq._; “bonny woods and braes” of Loudon, x. 207; on Hallowe’en, x. 234 Burnt alive, apotheosis by being, v. 179 _sq._ —— Land of Lydia, v. 193 _sq._ —— sacrifices to stay cattle-plague in England, Wales, and Scotland, x. 300 _sqq._ Burrha, river, Hera’s bath in the, v. 280 Burs, homoeopathic magic of, i. 144; a preservative against witchcraft, x. 177 Buru, East Indian island, sacrifice of girl to crocodile in, ii. 152; oil made by unmarried girls in, iii. 201; natives of, forbidden to utter their own names, iii. 324; names of relations tabooed among the Alfoors of, iii. 341; unlawful to use words resembling the names of the dead in, iii. 361; use of oil as a charm in, v. 21 _n._ 2; the natives of, ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183; “eating the soul of the rice” in, viii. 54; dog’s flesh eaten to make eater brave in, viii. 145; demons of sickness expelled in a proa from, ix. 186 Buryat shaman, his mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 56 _sq._ Buryats of Siberia place the bones of dead shamans in trees, ii. 32 “Burying the Carnival,” iv. 209, 220 _sqq._ —— bewitched animals alive, x. 324 _sqq._ —— the evil spirit, ix. 110 —— girls at puberty in the ground, x. 38 _sqq._ “—— the sheaf” in Ireland, i. 69 Bush negroes of Surinam set up two-headed idols at entrance of villages, ii. 385; their belief that leprosy is caused by eating a certain animal, viii. 26 Bushes, ailments transferred to, ix. 54, 56 Bushmen, magical telepathy among the, i. 123; of the Kalahari desert, their fire sticks, ii. 218 _n._ 1; custom as to their shadows, iii. 83; think it unlucky to speak of the lion by his proper name, iii. 400; their rules of diet based on sympathetic magic, viii. 140 _sq._; will not let their children eat a jackal’s heart, viii. 141; unable to distinguish between animals and men, viii. 206; will not eat the sinew in the thigh of a hare, viii. 266 _n._ 1; throw stones on the devil’s grave, ix. 16; their prayers at a cairn, ix. 30; their dread of menstruous women, x. 79; their way of warming up the star Sirius, x. 332 _sq._ Bushongo, royal persons among the, not allowed to set foot on the ground, x. 4; their use of bull-roarers, xi. 229; their rites of initiation, xi. 264 _sqq._ Busiris, an Egyptian city, “the house of Osiris,” iii. 390, vii. 260; backbone of Osiris at, vi. 11, 18; ritual of Osiris at, vi. 86, 87 _sq._; festival of Osiris in the month of Khoiak at, vi. 108; temple of Usirniri at, vi. 151