Austria, charm to make fruit trees bear in, 28; belief in the sensitiveness of trees, 113; harvest customs in, 405; children warned against the Corn-cock in, 451; mythical calf in the corn in, 459; Midsummer fires in, 625; the mistletoe in, 663
Babar Archipelago, ceremony to obtain a child for barren woman in the, 14; saturnalia at marriage of Sun and Earth, 136–137; fatigue transferred to stones in the, 540
Babylon, theocratic despotism of ancient, 48; sanctuary of Bel at, 142; mortality of the high gods of, 265; festival of Zagmuk at, 281; festival of Sacaea at, 282; sanctified harlotry at, 330
Babylonia, divinity of the early kings, 104; worship of Adonis in, 325
Bacchanals of Thrace, ivy eaten by, 95; tore Pentheus in pieces, 378, 392; wore horns, 390
Banks’ Islands, magical stones in the, 33; making sunshine in the, 78–79; ghosts in stones in the, 190; ceremony for getting rid of fatigue in the, 540
Banting in Sarawak, rules observed during absence of warriors at, 25
Bavaria, charms in, 28; magic in, 29, 40, 42, 43; greasing weapon instead of wound in, 42; green bushes placed at doors of newly married pairs in, 119; the Maypole in, 124; the Walber in, 126; saying as to crossed legs in, 240; Whitsuntide mummers in Lower, 297; carrying out Death in, 307; contests between Summer and Winter in, 316; the corn-spirit in, 402; harvest customs in, 405, 426–428, 454, 456, 457, 461; cure for fever in, 544; expulsion of witches in, 561; Easter fires in, 616; Midsummer fires in, 623, 653
