——, king of Egypt, his human sacrifices, vii. 259; slain by Hercules, vii. 259 Busiro, district containing the graves and temples of the kings of Uganda, vi. 168, 169, 224 _Busk_, festival of first-fruits among the Creek Indians, viii. 72 Busoga, pretended human sacrifice in, iv. 215 Bust, double-headed, at Nemi, i. 41 _sq._ Bustard totem of the Ingarda, v. 104 _Butea frondosa_ worshipped, viii. 119; its flowers offered, ix. 136 Butlers, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 _sq._, 205 Buto, city in Egypt, Horus and Isis at, vi. 10 Butter, time for making, i. 167; stolen by witches on May Day, ii. 53; stolen by witches on Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve, ii. 127; thought to be improved by the Midsummer fires, x. 180; bewitched, burnt at a crossroad, x. 322 “Butter-churning,” Swiss expression for kindling a need-fire, x. 279 Butterflies, souls of dead in, vi. 164, viii. 290, 291, 296 _sq._; annual expulsion of, ix. 159 _n._ 1 Butterfly, the soul as a, iii. 29 _n._ 1, 41, 51 _sq._ —— of the rice, vii. 190 Butterfly dance in Brazil, ix. 381 —— god in Samoa, viii. 29 Buttmann, Ph., on Virbius and the King of the Wood, i. 40 _n._ 2; on Janus as the god of doors, ii. 383 _n._ 3; on the derivation of _janua_ from _Janus_, ii. 384 _n._ 2 Büttner, C. G., on the firesticks of the Herero, ii. 218 Button-snake root used as a purgative, viii. 73, 75 Buzzard, the bald-headed, in homoeopathic magic, i. 155; killing the sacred, viii. 169 _sqq._ Byblus, hair offerings to Astarte at, i. 30; Adonis at, v. 13 _sqq._; the kings of, v. 14 _sqq._; mourning for Adonis at, v. 38; religious prostitution at, v. 58; inspired prophets at, v. 75 _sq._; festival of Adonis at, v. 225; Osiris and Isis at, vi. 9; the queen of, vi. 9; Osiris associated with, vi. 22 _sq._, 127; its relation to Egypt, vi. 127 _n._ 1 Byrne, H. J., on Twelfth Night in Roscommon, ix. 321 _sq._ Byron, Lord, and the oak, xi. 166 Byrsa, origin of the name, vi. 250 Cabag Head, witches at, i. 135 Cabbages, charm to make cabbages grow, i. 136 _sq._; divination by, at Hallowe’en, i. 242; threatened by Esthonian peasants to make them grow, ii. 22. _See also_ Kail Cabugatan, in the Philippine Islands, the Igorrots of, viii. 292 Cabunian, Mount, grave of the Creator on, iv. 3 Cachar, the Kookies of, i. 160 _n._ 3 Cacongo, in West Africa, rules observed by the king of, iii. 115, 118 Cactus, taboos observed by the Huichol Indians during their search for the sacred, i. 123 _sq._; hung at door of house where there is a lying-in woman, iii. 155 Cadiz, death at low tide at, i. 167; custom of swinging at, iv. 284 Cadmea, the, at Thebes, named after Cadmus, iv. 79