| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
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| Bedouins attack whirlwinds, 83 |
| Beeches of Latium, 150 |
| Beech-tree, in sacred grove of Diana, 8; burnt in Lenten bonfire, 612 |
| Beena marriage, 152 |
| Beer, continence observed at brewing, 219 |
| Beetle, in magic, 31; superstitious precautions against beetles, 531; external soul in a, 674 |
| Belgium, Lenten fires in, 609; Midsummer fires in, 630 |
| Bella Coola Indians, 600 |
| Bells, used in exorcism, 195, 568; to conjure spirits, 199; worn as amulets, 226; rung as a protection against witches, 560, 561 |
| Beltane fires, 617–622, 653; cakes, 618–621; carline, 618 |
| Benares, Hindoo gentleman worshipped as a god at, 100 |
| Bengal, marriage ceremony at the digging of wells, 144; rule of succession of kings of, 277; ceremony over a Karma-tree in, 342; human sacrifices in, 434; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 602; stories of the external soul in, 670 |
| Benin, king of, worshipped as a god, 99, 200; human sacrifices in, 433 |
| Bera Pennu, Earth goddess, 434 |
| Berawans of Sarawak, 15 |
| Berbers of North Africa, 631 |
| Berlin, treatment of navel-string in, 40 |
| Besisis of the Malay Peninsula, 191 |
| Besoms, burning, flung into the air to make corn grow, 647 |
| Bethlehem, the Star of, 347 |
| Betsileo of Madagascar, 229 |
| Bhars of India, 565 |
| Bhotiyas of Juhar, 569 |
| Biajas of Borneo, the, 566 |
| Bibili, of New Guinea, the natives reputed to make wind, 80 |
| Bidasari and the golden fish, Malay story of, 676 |
| Bilaspur or Bilaspore, twirling spindles forbidden in, 20; temporary rajah in, 287 |
| Bilqula. See Bella Coola |
| Binbinga tribe of Northern Australia, 693 |
| Birch-trees, 121, 128, 627 |
| Bird, soul conceived as a, 181 |
| Birds, cause headache through clipped hair, 234, 237; absent warriors called, 247; tongues of, eaten, 496; as scapegoats, 541, 545; external souls in, 670, 672, 675–677 |
| Birth, pretence of, 14, 15, 197, 406, 421; a man’s fortune determined by the day and hour of his, 37; new, 351, 697 |
| Birth-trees, in Africa, 681; in Europe, 682 |
| Bitch, last sheaf called the, 449 |
| Bithynia, song of reapers in, 425 |
| Black colour in rain-making ceremonies, 67; animals in rain-charms, 72, 161 |
| Blackfoot Indians, 21, 22, 524 |
| Blindness charm to cause, 30 |
| Blood, sympathetic connection between a wounded person and his shed, 43; human, in rain-making ceremonies, 65; as a means of inspiration, 94; smeared on woodwork of nouse, 117; put on doorposts, 175; of childbirth, 209, 229; smeared on person as a purification, 221; tabooed, 227–230; royal, not to be shed on the ground, 228; unwillingness to shed, 228; received on bodies of kinsfolk, 229; drops of, effaced, 229; of chief sacred, 230; fetish priests allowed to drink fresh, 238; Day of, in the festival of Attis, 349, 353; bath of bull’s, in the rites of Attis, 351; remission of sins through the shedding of, 356; sprinkled on seed and scattered on field, 432, 434, 438; of sacrificial horse, 478; of men drunk to acquire their qualities, 497, 498; as a means of communion with a deity, 535; of children used to knead a paste, 553; girls at puberty forbidden to see, 600; menstruous, 603, 604 |
| Blood-brotherhood, 113; -covenant, 202 |
| Blu-u Kayans of Borneo, 195 |
| Boa-constrictor, Caffres’ dread of, 222 |
| Boar, in magic, 31; and Adonis, 325, 471; Attis killed by a, 347, 471; corn-spirit as, 460; the Yule, 461, 462; Christmas, 462 |
| Boas, Dr. Franz, 699 |
| Boba, name given to the last sheaf, 405 |
| Bodio, fetish king, 86 |
| Boeotians, the, 143, 371 |
| Bogota, rigorous training of the heir to the throne of, 595 |
| Bohemia, Midsummer tree burned in, 122; throwing Death into the water in, 125; May King and Queen in, 130–132; Whitsuntide mummers in, 298, 299; carrying out Death in, 309, 310; bringing in Summer in, 311; the last sheaf in, 404; harvest customs in, 429, 456, 457; cure for fever in, 544; expulsion of witches in, 561; bonfires in, 621, 626; charm to make corn grow high in, 647; fern-seed on St. John’s Day in, 704, 705 |
| Boils, 473 |
| Bolivia, seclusion of girls at puberty in, 601 |
| Bombay, belief as to absence of sleeper’s soul in, 183 |
| Bones, of dead in magic, 30, 71; human, buried as a rain-charm, 72; departing souls bottled up in hollow, 180; used as charms, 201, 495; cakes baked in the shape of, 489; of animals, treatment of, 525–529; burnt in bonfires, 616 |
| Bonfires, Midsummer, 122, 622, 629, 645; leaping over, 318, 610; supposed to protect against conflagration, 610; lit by persons last married, 610; a protection against sickness, witchcraft, and sorcery, 610, 620, 621; fertilising influence of, 645, 646; protect fields against hail and homesteads against thunder and lightning, 649 |
| Boni, Commendatore G., 163 |
| Bontoc, the natives of, 433 |
| Bormus or Borimus, 425, 442 |
| Borneo, the Dyaks of, 14; rules observed by camphor-hunters in, 21; telepathy in war in, 25; hooks to catch souls in, 180; rice used to prevent soul from wandering, 181; precautions against strangers in, 195; use of puppets as substitutes for living persons, 492; sickness expelled in a ship from, 564; expulsion of evils in, 566; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 597; birth custom in, 679; tree as life-index in, 682 |
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