Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. Subject Index
Bororos of Brazil, 181 , 484 Bosnian Turks, 15 Bough, the Golden. See Golden Bough Bouphonia, Athenian sacrifice, 466 Boys, at initiation, 692 , 696 Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the Hindoo trinity, 52 Brahmans, 33 , 67 , 79 , 100 , 227 , 245 , 285 , 288 , 343 , 490 Brains of enemies eaten, 498 Branches, used in rain-charm, 63 , 64 ; in exorcism, 197 fatigue and sickness transferred to, 540 , 564 Brand, John, 636 , 637 Brandy, North American Indian theory of, 496 Bray, Mrs., 446 Brazil, Indians of, 88 , 181 , 495 , 523 , 581 ; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 601 Bread, leavened, Flamen Dialis forbidden to touch, 174 ; fast from, in mourning for Attis, 350 ; communion, 481 ; eaten sacramentally, 488 , 498 Bread-fruit, 33 Breath, of chief sacred, 205 , 231 ; caught by his successor, 294 Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit, 101 Breton superstitions as to tides, 35 ; peasants’ way of getting rain, 76 ; stories of the external soul, 674 ; peasants and the mistletoe, 704 Brewing, continence observed at, 219 Bribri Indians, the, 208 , 605 Bride, the Whitsuntide, 132 , 135 ; the May, 135 ; races for a, 156 ; fishing-net thrown over, 242 ; of the Nile, 370 ; name given to last sheaf, 408 Bride and bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, 133 ; the Midsummer, 133 ; all knots on their garments unloosed, 241 Bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, 133 ; of May, 133 , 320 Bridget in Scotland and the Isle of Man, 134 Brigit, a Celtic goddess, 135 Brimo and Brimos in the mysteries of Eleusis, 143 British Columbia. See Columbia, British Brittany, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, 35 ; the Mother-sheaf in Upper, 401 ; Midsummer fires in, 628 ; mistletoe as a protection against witchcraft in, 704 ; fernseed on Midsummer Eve in, 705 Brooke, Rajah, of Sarawak, 89 Brotherhood of the Green Wolf, 628 Brothers, childless persons named after their younger, 248 ; ancient Egyptian story of the Two, 674 ——and sisters, marriage of, 332 Brothers-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, 250 , 251 Brown, Dr. George, 84 Buddha, images of, drenched as a raincharm, 77 ; the Footprint of, 235 Buddhas, living, 102 Buddhism, 112 ; and Christianity, 361 Buffalo, sacrificed for human victim, 436 ; a Batak totem, 691 Buffalo-bull, last sheaf called, 457 Buffaloes, propitiation of dead, 523 ; the resurrection of, 529 ; revered by the Todas, 534 ; as scapegoats, 565 Buginese of Celebes, 33 Building, continence during, 220 Bukaua of New Guinea, 597 , 694 Bulgaria, 15 ; charms in, 30 , 31 ; peasants threaten fruit trees to make them bear, 114 ; superstitions in, 240 ; harvest customs in, 405 ; cure for fever in, 545 ; needfire in, 640 Bull, in relation to Dionysus, 389 , 390 ; corn-spirit as, 457 , 465 ; at threshing, 458 , 459 Bull’s blood, bath of, in rites of Attis, 351 Bull-roarers, 692 –695 Bullets, magical treatment of, 19 ; magical modes of averting, 26 Bullocks as scapegoats, 541 Bulls, sacred, of Ancient Egypt, 476 Bunyoro, king of, 199 , 270 Burghers or Badagas. See Badagas. Burglars, charms employed by, 30 Burial customs, 35 , 175 , 185 , 190 Burma, priestly king in, 226 , 227 ; king’s name tabooed in, 257 ; custom of threshing in, 418 ; expulsion of demons in, 549 Burne, Miss C. S., 446 Buru, East Indian island, girl sacrificed to crocodile in, 145 ; eating the soul of the rice in, 482 ; dog’s flesh eaten in, 496 Burying the Carnival, 301 –307 Bush negroes of Surinam, 166 , 473 Bushmen of South Africa, 495 , 604 Busiris, backbone of Osiris at, 367 ; ritual of Osiris at, 375 ; “the house of Osiris,” 443 Busiris, king of Egypt, 443 Butter, time for making, 35 Buzzard, killing the sacred, 499 Byblus, Adonis at, 327 ; Osiris and Isis at, 364 Cacongo, king of, 199 Cactus, the sacred, 23 Cadiz, death at low tide at, 35 Caesar, Julius, 46 , 653 Caffres, the, 222 , 235 , 247 –249 , 522 ; of Sofala, 33 ; of Natal and Zululand, 483 Cailleach (Old Wife), name given to last corn cut, 403 , 409 Cairo, ceremony of cutting the dams at, 370 Cajaboneros Indians, the, 138 Calabar, expulsion of demons at Old, 492 , 567 ; soul of chief in sacred grove at, 681 ; belief of negroes regarding external souls, 686 Calabashes, souls shut up in, 188 Calabria, Easter custom in, 345 ; annual expulsion of witches in, 560 Calendar, the ancient Greek, 279 ; regulation of the early, an affair of religion, 280 ; the Egyptian, 368 ; the Alexandrian, 373 ; of Esne, 373 ; the Mohammedan, 632 Calf, killed at harvest, 458 ; mythical, in the corn, 459 Calicut, rule of succession observed by the kings of, 275 –277 , 296
