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Australian Gods, A Reply, by Andrew- Lang, I Rejoinder, by E. S. Hartland,
Religion, A. Lang, 489
Babylonian influence on Hellenic
myth, 340 Baffie, white dove form of departing
soul at, 333 Baiame or Byamee, Australian god,
4' 7) 34) 37) 51) 34^) in Australian
tales, 347, as creator, 17, 18, 20,
24, 27, 39, dwelling and food of,
25, institutes Kangaroo dance, 19, Mrs. Parker o/i, 490 et seq. ; Myth of and parallels, 53, sons of, 18, 26, 28, 493 ; unending life of, 17
Bailah Burrah, son of Byamee, 493
Balance Sheet, 70
Ballad literature, European, 97
Ballads, absence of, in Celtic litera- ture, 99, 100
of North and West Europe, 96
original homes of, 98, 99
Ballimah, the Australian heaven, 28, 52, location of, 54
Baloch cannibalism to acquire dead men's virtues, 403
Baltic localities identified with places in the Helgi-lays, 453
Bamboos, 301
Banshee, the, 123
Barley, divination by, 152
Baroiiga, Les, Etude Ethnographique stir les Indighies de la Bale de Delagoa. Moeurs, Droit, Cottlumes, Vie Nationale, Industrie Tradi- tions, Superstitions et Religion, par IL A. Junod, reviewed by E. S. Hartland, 225
birth customs, 227, marriage
customs, 225, worship and gods, 226-7
Barrel shape of evil spirit, Wexford, 362
Barrenness, Indian means of curing, 392, 393 ; sacrifice to cure at Bury St. Edmunds, 355
Barrows, 89, 90, empty, 92-5, reason for, 93
Basil in sunstroke charm, Greek Isles, 167
Basutoland, hares in, 283
Batcombe church, Conjurer Mintcrn's horse-leap at, 481
Bath of new born child heated with red hot poker, 457
Bathing, ceremonial, India, 437
Batting the water with the hands, by fairies, Ireland, 121, 123
Battle-bards, and their kinship, 454
Beads, blue, uses of, 154
worn to keep off diseases, 154
Beans, used to discover lost things, 154, in magic, 171
Bear-wives of the red-headed wood- pecker, 195, 196, 199-203
Bears, led about as play-mates, 153 ; magical properties attributed to,
Beast bespelling, 152, or binding,
154, 161-4, to protect children,
162 Beasts, colours put upon against the
Evil Eye, 152 crowds of, protecting heroes or
saints, 398 Beavers' eyes in " medicine," 204 Bedawi folklore ; whistling the speech
of Devils, 172 Beelzebub in Warwickshire mumming,
187, et seqq. Beer, bottled, buried in grave in
Berkshire, 253 Beetles, to get rid of. South African
folklore, 227 Beltane unlucky when falling on
Thursday, Hebrides, 268 Beowulf and the Dragon, 218
poem of, where composed, 82
Bergfolk, Scandinavia, 459 Berkshire folklore. Bottled beer
buried in a grave, 253, method of
finding drowned body in, I15 Besom laid across threshold against a
witch, 480 Bhagat, stone god, India, gratitude of,
416 Bhuta, of S. India, 412, nortliern
counterparts of, 393 Bible under pillow to protect un-
christened child, Yorkshire, 350 Big I lead and Little Wits in Warwick- shire mumming, 188 Billson, C. J., review by, Aber-
crcjmby's Pre- and Prolo-Historic
P'inns, 325 Binding Spells, 154, operating on
married people, 156, charms to
nullify, 156-60 Bird folklore, see Black fowl, Blue
jay. Cock, Cormorants, Cranes,
