Index.
509
British Isles, four historical races of,
79, the home of the Eddie Poems,
450-1 Bronze age, barrows of, 89 ; camps
or forts of, Dorsetshire, 478-9 Brow of corpse touched to prevent
ill-luck 254, 477 Buarach, the, (horsehair cattle-tie),
Hebrides, 277 Buckland Newton church, visited by
spirits. Midsummer Eve, 481 Buildings, human sacrifice to ensure
stability of, 1 82-4
seen in phantom flames, 120
special, for marriage, birth and
death, JapaTi, 300 Bulabong, spirit of the dead,
Australia, 16, 17 Bullimah {see Ballimah), 28, 52, 54 Bull-roarers, 236, 494 Bullock, in Australian dances, 19 ;
in Indian folktale, 415 Bulls, as alms to St. Cuthbert, 353 ;
in Irish tales, 218 white, as freemen's dues, and
fines, 356
winged, Indian folktales, 419
Bungay, Black Dog of, suggested
origin, 476 Bunjil, Australian god, 4, 50, mean- ing of name, 34-5, as Our Father,
35> 37 ; Poem on, 35 ; unending
life of, 17 Burambin, son of Baiame, 26 Burial custom, by Mrs. I. Hooper,
254
, by R. M. Nason, 254
, by G. J. Watts, 253
Buried animals (in walls) becoming
spectres. Denmark, 360 Burma, idol-chaining in, 420 Burning bushes, Wexford, 362 Burns or scalds, cured by licking a
dry ask, 252 Burnt-offering, {see Calves) to make
rain, or find treasure, 230 Bury St. Edmunds, white cattle of,
ceremonial uses of, 355 Burying plant after touching warts to
cure them. 479 Bush gods of the Baronga, 226 Bushes blazing, Wexford, 362 Butter, charm to protect, Wexford,
364 ; in warm milk as a cure,
Hebrides, 280 Buying not right on Fridays,
Hebrides, 268
Bye-gones relating to Wales and the Border Counties, 1897-98, re- viewed by E. S. Hartland, 350
Cabbage, meaning of dreaming of,
116 Cairpre niafer, a real person, 218 Cakes, &c. , laid on tombs on feast
days, Calymnos, 180-1 ; loved by
Kalikazari, Cyprus, 176 Calendar, in relation to Egyptian
mythology, 109 Calves, hung in chains or buried at
threshold, loi, Calymnos, Island of, cakes in con- nection with festivals, &c. , 180 Cambridgeshire, Game of Green
Gravel in, 112 Camel, Indian folklore, 415
winged, do., 419
Candle-wick in tallow as cure for
Ague, 365 Cannibalism, of Daramulun, 40 attributed to Indian witches,
ceremonial in India, 403, 407
in North America, tales of, 211,
215 Cantal, the Wind and St. Laurence
at, 333-4 Canterbury Cathedral, Angel Steeple
of, 359 Capacity, manly, the same as virtue,
Indian folklore, 426-8 Carr, H. Wildon, A Sicilian Festival,
252 Carriers {til-beri), Iceland, 460 Cash Account, 69 Cassia tree. 311 Castes in Egypt, 229 Cat, the, in folktales, 1 16, 224, 284 ;
in folklore, Hebrides, 262, 270 ;
grateful, Indian folktales, 416 Catalogues of warriors, value of, 220 Caterpillar-god of the Everlasting
World, Japan, 319 Cattle, sacred animals, 371, 377,
378 ; afl'ccted by music, Indian
tales, 415 ; blessed, Hebrides, 260,
262 ; blessing prayers for, 161 ;
charm to keep safe on hill-side,
Hebrides, 262 ; white, 352, 353,
355 Cattle-switching, Cos and elsewhere,
179-80, cf. 262 Cauls, 476, lucky, of the Crewe
family, lOI
