Astarte, worshipped at Corbridge, 275. Astolat, 362. Athens, 153. Athlone, 175, 216. Augusel, a king of Scotland, 375. Aurelius, a British king, 325. Avallach, see Avallon. Avallon, a British god of the Underworld, 329, 359; Isle of, 374, and see Avilion. Avebury, the “castle” of, 29. Avilion, 133, 315, 329, 332, 334, 335, 390, 394. Aynia, a fairy queen of Ulster, 245. Babylon, 178. Badb, a Gaelic war-goddess, 52, 53, 72, 117, 119, 245; the name often used generically, 53; description of a, 53. “Badger in the bag”, the game of, 285, 303. Badon, battle of, 338. Baile, love-story of, 188-189. Baile’s Strand, 186, 188. Bajocassus, Temple of the sun-god Belinus at, 276. Bala lake, 265. Balan, 276, 357, 364. Balder, 33. Balgatan, a mountain near Cong, 73. Balin, 276, 357, 358, 364. Ballymagauran, village of, 38. Ballymote, Book of, 10, 38, 123, 138, 229, 231. Ballysadare, 75. Balor, a king of the Fomors, 48-49, 50, 79, 83, 84, 90, 112, 113, 120, 233-239, 269, 324, 341, 345, 371; his evil eye, 49; kills Nuada and Macha, 112; is blinded by Lugh, 112; tales of, in modern folklore, 233-239. “Balor’s Hill”, 69, 90. Ban, king of Benwyk, 356, 360, 362. Banba, a goddess representing Ireland, 125; an ancient name of Ireland, 126, 153. _Banshee_, meaning of the word, 137. Baoisgne, Clann, 209, 217. Bards, 32, 42. Bardsey Island, 326. Barrow, river, how it got its name, 62. Barrule, South, 242. Barry, the, 246. Basque race, 19. Bath, 228, 275, 276, 338, 381. Bathurst’s _Roman Antiquities in Lydney Park_, 254. Battle of Achren, 305; of Badon, 338; of Camlan, 222, 315, 334, 337, 375, 376; of Clontarf, 53; of Gabhra, 222, 223, 225, 315; of Mag Rath, 52; of Moytura Northern, 107-117, 407; of Moytura Southern, 72-75; of the Trees, 123, 305-308. Bayeux, temple of Belinus at, 276. Bean, curious passage relating to the, 306, 307. Becuma of the Fair Skin, 202. Bedivere, Sir, 6. Bedwini, Arthur’s bishop, 337. Bedwyr, a follower of Arthur, 343, 344, 349. Belacatudor, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275. Belgæ, 23, 76. Beli, a British god, 120, 252, 260, 268, 295, 313, 335-376. Belinus, a Celtic sun-god, 276, 358, 364; as a king of Britain, 276, 384, 385. Belisama, the Latin name of the Ribble, 413. Beltaine, the Gaelic May-day, 41, 65, 287, 406, 408, 409, 410. Berber race, 19. Beth, an Iberian god, 64. Bettws-y-coed, 7. Beuno, Saint, sacrifices of cattle to, 413. Big-Knife, Osla, 352, 353. Bilé, father of the Gaelic gods and men, 51, 65, 120, 121, 122, 252. Billingsgate, origin of name, 385. Birds, of Rhiannon, the, 273, 294, 296; Dechtiré and her maidens changed into, 160. Black Book of Caermarthen, the, 11, 255, 311, 312, 335. Bladud, mythical founder of Bath, 381. Blathnat, daughter of Mider, 55, 179. Bliant, Castle, 358. Blodeuwedd, wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes, 265, 266, 268. Blood-fines among the Celts, 30; blood-fine paid for Cian, 94-97.